UPDATE ‘AVSR1 Can Get Back To Work’ Say L.A. County and First Solar

By Patric Hedlund UPDATE— NEENACH, FRAZIER PARK, CA (June 22, 2012 at 1:15 a.m.)— Kudos have begun rolling in for breaking the deadlock between First Solar, Inc. and Los Angeles County Department of Public Works. ...

Brush Fire Breaks Out Near I-5, Tejon Ranch

LEBEC, CALIF. (Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 1:10 p.m.)–KCFD Captain Sean Collins reports that 300 acres have burned with 500 acres expected to be burned by the end of Tuesday. KCFD expects to have the ...

Guns Drawn in Center of Frazier Park See Video of the Arrest

By Patric Hedlund, with reporting by Gary Meyer and community reporters

UPDATE (Friday, June 15,2012 at 6 p.m.) : A check of Kern County records for felony, civil and family court actions show that ...

Local Youth Take Message To Big Screen and TV See Video

By Heather Conover, McCASA

“We’re still your children, please keep being our parents,” a volunteer group called Mountain Youth Can Change Communities (MyC3) told their own town this spring. Now they are the stars of ...

New Directors Named for Pine Mountain Club POA

PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA  (June 16, 2012 at 3:45 p.m.)— Ballots were counted and the winners were named this afternoon at the Pine Mountain Club Property Owners Association (PMCPOA) annual members’ meeting. The canddidates were ...

Sign Talks Advance

By Patric Hedlund and Gary Meyer

Andrew Horn has lived in the Mountain Communities for 9 years and has always wanted to say something about “the visual pollution in what would be a very beautiful ...

‘We’re Nuts About History’

Museum Invites Businesses To Be Nuts About History Too

By Lois Lee, RRCM

History, it is said, is the greatest wealth a community can have. Our local Ridge Route Communities Museum and Historical Society has ...

Fun Kids’ Activities This Summer

Wow! What could be better than magic shows, puppet theaters, Xbox 360, five days of Art Camp, learning to build rockets and robots and—wait for it—free lunches?

Frazier Park Library’s summer lineup includes the Christopher ...

ComTec Academy: Myth vs. Fact at Frazier Mountain High School

At the Falcon Extravaganza this month there was excitement and fun about the offerings of Frazier Mountain High School, being showcased in a festival atmosphere at FMHS. Here is one of the important messages that ...

Fire Causes Miles of Traffic Backup on Grapevine

By Gary Meyer

A brush fire that broke out on Friday, June 8 at 1 p.m. along Interstate 5, north of Castaic, tangled traffic for miles southward into Santa Clarita.

Mountain residents called The Mountain ...

First Solar Layoff Count Rises to 310

By Patric Hedlund

Workers laid off from solar farms being built by First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) in the western Antelope Valley were frustrated early this week as they waited for concrete facts about when they ...