Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The Warriors and Knights Mountain Bike Teams are wrapping up the 2024 race season. With Southern California's tricky weather this year, the team faced super hot weather, deep stream crossings and rain soaked courses that clogged up their wheels. Tehachapi's students were up to the challenge though, and were strong all year. The SoCal Youth Cycling League's season ends with its Championship race in Tehachapi this year on May 12. Tehachapi will be hosting the 2024 SoCal Championships in its own...
Canine Companions is a national nonprofit organization committed to providing service dogs to people with disabilities at no charge to the recipients. With six regional training centers and subsequent chapters, Canine Companions has trained and placed over 7,700 service dogs. The Kern County Volunteer Chapter of Canine Companions, located in Tehachapi, welcomes their newest puppies Vinnie and Dane! Since its formation in 2011, it is the chapter's job to socialize and train the puppies over a...
Stray Leaves Vineyard and Tasting Room has accomplished a great deal since it first began. Vineyard owner, Clifford Meridth, had always enjoyed taking care of his plants, tending to the garden each year with fruit trees and vegetables. His land of 25 acres, that he had acquired over the years for his horses, gave him an opportunity to put his gardening skills and love of wine to use. Back in 2009, Clifford began to plant the first vines of Riesling, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon in his vineyard....
Mountain bike racing is an inclusive sport that middle and high school students can participate in and enjoy, from beginner to advanced. Each rider can set their own goals that our volunteer coaches help them to reach, or even exceed those expectations. Tehachapi's students train and ride together three days a week for 3 hours at a time. As the season progresses, keep an eye out as each student sets their own records each race. The 2024 season, as well as the 10th season for the Tehachapi...
Stray Leaves Vineyard calls its best wines "Kate's Reserve." These wines are typically strong, "Wild," and one-of-a-kind red blends. We often get asked who Kate is and why she has a reserve. Kate's Reserve is a story of a man and a stray dog. Kate was a black lab mix that decided Stray Leaves Vineyard would be her home. Clifford Merdith, vineyard owner, remembers his dog fondly. From 2005 to 2014, Kate protected the vineyard as it grew from baby plants to beautiful vines. For six months in...
Stray Leaves Tasting Room has now been open for a year, exclusively bringing you the Tehachapi-grown wines from Stray Leaves Vineyard. Spot us downtown with our painted windows and red awning, across the street from the Hitching Post Theaters. With a year under our belt, Stray Leaves Tasting Room is always trying to improve our services. This includes the monthly rotation of our tasting flights, showcasing a new set of red and white wines each month for you to experience. We are also constantly...
As Stray Leaves joins the festive season alongside Downtown Tehachapi for the first time, a few fun things have been happening around the tasting room, located at 123 S. Green St., Tehachapi. It was so exciting to see a lot of you during the Tehachapi Hometown Christmas activities, inside the tasting room and alongside the parade route! Cliff Meridth, our owner, joined the march down F Street in a horse drawn wagon! His two horses, Juliette and Isabell, did a great job pulling the lit-up wine...
Tehachapi is commonly known as the small mountain town with the windmills, and now, most recently, an up-and-coming wine country. As of December 21st, 2020, 58,000 acres of Tehachapi land received their AVA designation. AVA stands for American Viticultural Area and oversees differentiating the multiple climates grapes can be grown in. With Tehachapi on the AVA map, vineyards are able describe the origin of their wines more accurately. This allows the public to gather a better understanding of...
