Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Seems like a wet year. Maybe it is, I haven’t been able to find a really good site for monthly totals for the past few years. But part of why it seems so wet is that the last few years have been so dry. Really dry. Exceptional drought dry. So now, even if we get an average year it will seem pretty wet. Even with the trend seeming to be towards a hotter and drier climate for our area, we will get periods when it’s not so hot, nor so dry. It’s known as regression towards the mean. Regre...
At the Jan. 17 City Council meeting, Development Services Director Jay Schlosser again addressed the issue of the delayed completion of the road work that began on Valley Blvd. last May. Weather and survey errors had caused delays in the project and costs to exceed the budget. At the Nov. 7 meeting, the Council approved a change order increasing approved budget overages to $160,000 to be billed on a time and materials basis. After the holiday season, it was obvious that the approved increase was...
It was standing room only as community members and district teachers filled the meeting room to capacity at the Jan. 17 board meeting of the Tehachapi Unified School District. The regular meeting began with public comments. Ann Chiarini, a teacher from Cummings Elementary, received a standing ovation after her moving speech in public comments entitled "I have a dream". Chiarini addressed concerns among teachers in the district. Because the issue was not on the agenda there were no comments made...
City dignitaries and many community members joined the Chamber of Commerce for the official Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting of Dunkin' Donuts in Tehachapi. Matt Higgins of Frontier Group, who is building the donut shops in Kern County, joined Mayor Pro Tem Susan Wiggins in cutting the ribbon at the ceremony on Jan. 18. When opening a new restaurant, Dunkin' Donuts traditionally donates $1,000 to a local non-profit. Veterans' Collaborative Services was the grateful local recipient. Attendees...
Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced that he was elected to serve as Chairman of the Kern County Board of Supervisors for 2017. "I am honored to serve as Chairman of the Kern County Board of Supervisors. 2017 will be another challenging year, but I look forward to working with Ryan Alsop, our new County Administrative Officer, and all of the county's hard working employees, and the many volunteers that make our county government work. Government derives not only its authority but also its...
Along with a new name, 25 guild members were in attendance to witness the installation of the new officers of the Guild of Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District....
With the County still in a declared fiscal emergency, overtime costs are eating the fire budget alive and must be addressed. That’s why the Kern County Fire Chief is reducing staffing from three-person shifts to two-person shifts at nine stations throughout the County to cut fire overtime costs by $2 million to $3 million annually. The firefighters union jointly developed this plan with the Fire Department as a fiscal emergency clause in the current Memorandum of Understanding between the County...
Stallion Springs residents held a meeting at noon on Saturday, Jan. 14 to rally against the proposed reduction of staffing at Station 18. The reduction proposed by the Board of Supervisors would reduce the staffing of the facility from three to two firefighters per shift. The reduction would result in a lower success rate on medical calls and CPR due to fatigue, increased costs and difficulty in obtaining insurance for local residents, and reduced effectiveness on containment and suppression of...
I had a tough time coming up with a title for this article. I wanted to go with “Winter is Here” but only other Game of Thrones fans would get the deeper implications of that title. I thought about “Dreaming of a White Christmas,” but snow isn’t really white. It is clear! Light bouncing around in the snow crystals makes it look white to our eyes. I thought about “Let it Snow, Let it Snow…,” but we got graupel, tiny snowpuffs that look like those Styrofoam balls that spill everywhere when the dog rips apart a stuffed animal. Light and fluff...
I was just thinking about what I need to do to get my business to the next level this year and thought I’d share with you what I’m telling myself. I’ve realized that as small business owners we’re basically all the same. A lot of people think that everybody’s different, that some people are just luckier than others or that they were just in the right place at the right time. On the surface that might seem to be true but the reality is, it is not true. The difference comes down to perfectin...
