State Budget Crisis May Mean Teacher Lay-Offs for ETUSD

By Patric Hedlund

The shocking news that tiny El Tejon Unified School District may lose $500,000 of its state allocations for the coming year’s $10.4 million budget was delivered by Superintendent Shelly Mason in a ...

Parents Warned of Drug- Resistent Staph Infection

A West High School student from Bakersfield died from a drug-resistant form of Staphylococcus infection on February 17 in Bakersfield Memorial Hospital. Marissa Reyna, 16 had flu-like symptoms with wheezing and chest pain. The infection ...

County Paramedic Report by Elliott Put Off to April 1

As we go to press on March 5, Ross Elliott, Director of Kern County’s office of emergency medical services (EMS), sent an update about the schedule for bringing a revised firefighter paramedic report to the ...

Shine Up Your Shamrock

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner and Dance at Cuddy Hall

By Conrad Schwarm

Come one; Come all! The Mountain Communities are invited to the first St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance hosted by The Dream Castle and ...

Grand Jury Awards Top Honors for Essay

On Thursday, Feb. 21 Sahara Khouja won $100 from the grand jury and $200 from The Mountain Enterprise for entering the Kern County Grand Jury’s Essay contest and winning first place in the middle school ...

Enterprise on the Road: Karen Laumbach

At the Rose Parade

Karen Laumbach of Pinon Pines attended the 2008 Rose Parade and took The Mountain Enterprise with her for this shot of a New Year’s Day Enterprise on the Road.

"We had ...