Step Back in Time this Fourth

Step Back in Time this Fourth

Invitation from Fort Tejon

What was it like to visit a small fort settlement on the American frontier in 1856? Step into living history at Fort Tejon State Historic Park this Fourth of July for …

Back to Work: First Solar on the Job Again

Back to Work: First Solar on the Job Again

By Patric Hedlund

“They are bringing everybody back, plus hiring additional [workers],” a union electrician working at the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One (AVSR1) construction site, said Monday. “We’ve been working 6-10s,” he said, meaning …

Growing Up in Wheeler Ridge

Growing Up in Wheeler Ridge

When Robert Dorsey, now 80, began sending stories to the Ridge Route Communities Museum about his childhood in Wheeler Ridge, museum historian Bonnie Ketterl Kane felt the stories were so good that they should be …

Aircraft Sent Quickly To Battle Hill Fire near Hungry Valley

Reported by the staff of The Mountain Enterprise

Aircraft were hurled almost immediately into the fight against the ‘Hill fire’ that started in Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA) Saturday, June 23.

Shanna Llewellyn, …

OpEd: Do Mountain’s Teachers Resist Change?

By Kelly Franti, Piñon Pines

I attended the special ETUSD “Goals and Objectives” board meeting June 25. While listening to a discussion about possibly adopting a new model for evaluating our students, I was quite …

Homeschool Family Takes Second Look At High School

By Patric Hedlund

The Duhm family lives in Pine Mountain. Anne Duhm and her husband have four children, ages 10 through 17, in El Tejon Unified School District now. These are excerpts from a recent …

Breaking News: Water Pipe Breaks in Frazier Park

Water Pipe Breaks in Frazier Park

UPDATE–FRAZIER PARK, CA (Saturday, July 01, 2012 at 1:05 a.m.)–It took 12 hours, but Jonnie Allison reports that repairs have been successfully completed on the Pine Canyon leak. At 1 a.m. July 1 he was …

News and Features

Pine Mountain Village Has New Board and New Outlook

By Patric Hedlund

“We’re open for fun and business again,” said enthusiastic members of the new board of the commercial property owners association in Pine Mountain Village.

“We are 100 percent sure there will be ...

Local Youth Win County Production Prize

By Heather Conover (McCASA staff) and Patric Hedlund

“We’re still your kids.… Please keep being our parents,” is the message that captivated audiences recently at a premier showing of youth-produced public service announcements (PSAs) at ...

Open Book Chat Spotlights the Kindle and iPad

By George Garrigues

Frazier Park Library’s monthly Open Book Chat on June 23 featured two books that were displayed on electronic reading devices.

Joy LeBaron reported on Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human ...

Big Event Planned at Wee Vill

By Richard Chapleau

A very big thing is happening July 7 at Wee Vill Market in the Neenach/ Fairmont area. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of the Kentucky Colonels, but Eric White with that ...

Talks to Mothball a School to Begin

School Bus Fees Proposal Passes UPDATE (Friday, June 29, 2012)—Parents report they received letters from the El Tejon Unified School District today (June 29) about the $80 per year annual fee for bus transportation to ...