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  • School bus No. 31 retired after 1/2 million miles

    Tina Fisher-Cunningham, Fisher Forde Media|May 8, 2021

    Tehachapi Unified School District (TUSD) will retire 21-year-old bus No. 31 after 550,000 miles of service to take advantage of a grant from the Eastern Kern Air Pollution Control District that will pay most of the cost for a new lower emitting bus. The grant will provide $110,000 of the $176,000 price of the new school bus. Bus No. 31, kept in immaculate condition by the district maintenance crew, will be crushed and scrapped. It came into service along with five other International buses in...

  • Sacramento water torture. Who will fix the WaterFix?

    Tina Fisher-Cunningham, Fisher Forde Media|Jan 5, 2019

    The transition from the Jerry Brown to the Gavin Newsom gubernatorial administrations is creating uncertainty among water agencies as to the direction of the complicated WaterFix plan. "We had a clear understanding of Governor Brown and the role of water agencies," Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District General Manager Tom Neisler said. "Water issues have not had prominence in Newsom's campaign and transition. We have no answers. We need information so we can plan for the district. We need...

  • Forde Shorts

    Tina Fisher-Cunningham|Aug 6, 2016

    What is the name of the new hospital? There's a corporate name and a hospital name. The corporation name is Adventist Health Medical Center Tehachapi Valley. That's who the employees will be working for. The official name of the new hospital (the corporation's dba) is Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley. "We knew it was important to the people of Tehachapi to have 'Tehachapi' be part of the hospital's name," Adventist spokesperson Jimmy Phillips said. The clinics will be Adventist Community Care...