Week’s Highs To Be in the 80s—National Weather Service
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 7:30 a.m.)—This is a good week to get busy and finish up a lot of those projects that we just can’t seem to get done when it …
100 Join Party for Historic Ridge Route
About 100 people came out on a rainy Saturday, Sept. 22, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Old Ridge Route being placed on the National Register of Historic Locations.
Hundreds of photographs were on …
A Night with Bears Filled with Surprise
By Patric Hedlund
"Bears are an indicator species: they only live in the most beautiful places. You won’t find bears in Los Angeles or Bakersfield. They have taste." Those are the words of Steve Searles, …
The Cost of Grapes
Camp Justice
Donato Ventura of Lake of the Woods is a retired community college career counselor and a former farm worker. For over forty years, he writes, he’s volunteered to work "alongside Cesar Chavez and …
News and Features
‘Blitz Build’ Draws Local Couple to Katrina Zone
"Good things are happening in this, the greatest country on God’s earth," Leon Frankamp, a Mountain Community resident, writes from Louisiana this week.
Frankamp and his wife Ramona of Pine Mountain are helping to build ...
Neighborhood Watch Resumes This Week: Sheriff’s Log Is Back
Sgt. Bryan Armendariz said he would resume Sheriff’s Log dispatches and he has. Former New York Police Department officer Jim McDevitt, now of Pine Mountain, takes up his pen and files his Neighborhood Watch column ...
Falling in Love with words
By Pam Sturdevant
In September, the Rotary Club of Frazier Park and the Mountain Communities celebrated Literacy Month by presenting personal dictionaries to all students in third grade classes at Frazier Park School.
Members of ...
Flu Shot Clinic at Pine Mountain for All Mountain Residents
Lori McChesney, administrative assistant for Pine Mountain Club, reports that the Kern County Department of Public Health will hold a Flu Clinic at the Pine Mountain clubhouse on Thursday Oct. 18 from 1 to 3 ...
Mysteries Revealed At AARP Meeting Thursday, Oct. 4
By Gigi Day
The regular meeting of Mountain Communities AARP Chapter 2915 will take place Thursday, Oct. 4. As usual, a potluck will be served at noon and the program will begin at 12:30 p.m.
...Spaghetti and Italian Sausage Feast Comin’ Up
Cooking for You
By Bernice Trojahn
Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church will be serving spaghetti dinners at the church hall on Friday, Oct. 12, from 4 to 8 p.m. We invite the Mountain ...
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