30th Lilac Festival: Let the Fun Begin

30th Lilac Festival: Let the Fun Begin

By Patric Hedlund

When you find yourself watching the annual rhythm of local seasons as closely as others watch their stock portfolio, you know you are becoming a true "mountaineer." Spring snows melted as May …

ETUSD Trustees Open Debate on Priorities

Written by Patric Hedlund with reporting by Kelly Franti

A new practice by some members of the El Tejon Unified School District Board of Trustees continued at the May 9 board meeting. The board met …

Outlet Stores May Come to Tejon Industrial Complex

By Patric Hedlund

Tejon Ranch Corporation released news last week that it is in early stages of developing an "outlet mall" at the northern base of the Grapevine, in the eastern Tejon Industrial Complex. The …

School District on Illegal Meeting: ‘Oops’

May 9, 2012

To The Mountain Enterprise:

This is to follow up on your email [and hand-delivered letter] dated February 6, 2012 in which you alleged that the El Tejon Unified School District Board of …

News and Features

23 Tips to Protect Your Home from Wildfire

When getting ready for the upcoming fire season here are some tips to be sure that your house has the best possible chance of surviving a wildfire.

  • Plan your evacuation route out of the area ...

    • State Hiring All-Veteran Firefighting Crews

    By Susanne Levitsky, CCC

    The California Conservation Corps (CCC) is still recruiting veterans for additional crew openings. Fifty military veterans, members of four all-veterans CCC crews, are now working in California national forests on fuel ...

    Unexpected Mother’s Day Moment…

    Char Flanagan stopped into The Mountain Enterprise with Mother’s Day flowers for the editor. The staff told her the editor was out of town at the moment, so they took a photo of Char, the ...

    Collision on Frazier Mtn Park Road Blocks Highway

    FRAZIER PARK, CALIF. (Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 8:45 a.m.)–CHP Officer Christolear provided updated information on the collision saying the driver of the White Chevy pickup truck, John Vernon Hole, initially turned west on Frazier ...

    Planning the Future of Kern County

    The economic recession has forced many in the Mountain Communities to keep their eyes glued to the challenges of just today and tomorrow, but the folks from the Kern Council of Governments visited this month ...

    Science Opens Doors, Minds and Opportunity

    By Steve Sanders, Office of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools

    Nearly 1,000 students from over 400 schools throughout California met in competition for awards totaling $50,000 at the California State Science Fair held April ...

    Human Remains Found in Neenach

    By Gary Meyer

    Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators and the L.A. County Coroner’s office have recovered two separate sets of what appear to be human remains in the Neenach area.

    The location of the first ...

    Kern Wildfire Crews Train West of Pine Mountain

    By Gary Meyer

    “Only as a last resort,” said Kern County Fire Department Captain Derek Davis, “would they need to deploy their fire shelters.”

    Fifty yards away, Kern County’s wildfire crews were practicing on Tuesday, ...

    Trustees Told 80% of FMHS Graduates Go on to Higher Ed

    Written by Patric Hedlund from reporting by Kelly Franti

    According to a survey of graduating seniors, 45 percent of Frazier Mountain High School grads will be attending a community college, 23 percent a four-year college, ...