Stray (Getting Lucky)

Stray (Getting Lucky)

Don Tait—rumored to be on his way past the big 9-0—introduced himself at a recent Rotary function as a screenwriter and developer. As the patriarch of the Tait Ranch in Frazier Park, with credits for …

Tough Pre-Season Prepares Falcons for League Play

Tough Pre-Season Prepares Falcons for League Play

Falcon Pride Takes Wing

By Tony Levesque

“We had a very difficult preseason this year,” said Shane Ryan, varsity lineman and defensive end for the Frazier Mountain High School Falcon football team after last Friday’s …

Chalk Art Street Painting FestivalHosts 12 Contestants

Chalk Art Street Painting FestivalHosts 12 Contestants

This year’s Chalk Art Street Painting Festival brought 12 contestants together at “Le Coffee Cantina” on Saturday, Oct. 1 in Frazier Park.

The artists’ talents were displayed in bright colors across the asphalt, along the …

West Nile Deaths Start in Kern Co

On October 3 the Kern County Department of Public Health confirmed that the first two deaths from complications of a neuroinvasive West Nile virus infection in California this year were a man from Taft, 86 …

Roadwork Will Cause Delays

Residents reported to The Mountain Enterprise on Tuesday, Oct. 4 that delays along Frazier Mountain Park Road, between Lebec and Frazier Park, are taking 15 to 20 minutes, due to Kern County Road Department repairs. …

News and Features

OpEd: Oh, These Poor, Billionaire NBA Owners

by David Zirin:

By the time you read this, the National Basketball Association (NBA) lockout could be over. Also, by the time you read this, I could be finishing my four-minute mile. Neither is likely. ...

Defense Against ‘Killer Cantaloupe’

By Patric Hedlund

California cantaloupe producers are suffering from the effects on their industry caused when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed that Jensen Farms in eastern Colorado is the source of an outbreak ...

Varsity Falcons Lose to Strathmore High Spartans

STRATHMORE, CA (Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 at 9:54 p.m.)–The Mountain Enterprise intern sports reporter Tony Levesque reports from the sidelines that Varsity Falcons have lost against the Strathmore  High Spartans, 57-6. "The Falcons have two ...