Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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There are two important dates in the month of June that changed world history. June 6, 1944 D-Day, the Invasion at Normandy, France and June 5-10, 1967, The Six Day War when Israel launched Operation Focus and defeated their enemies. June 6 will mark the seventy-third anniversary of the Allied invasion of France's Normandy beaches to free Europe from Hitler's hold. In the earliest hours of the beach landings, one in every two men was wounded or killed. Some of them spent an hour in the water try...
The Tehachapi Rotary Club continues a long tradition of providing educational boosts to deserving graduates of Tehachapi High School. On June 1 at the THS Awards Night Program, four talented young ladies each received a $1,000 Rotary scholarship to help them advance their education. The club scholarship committee, led by Marian Stephens, works hard to identify student recipients who have demonstrated strong community service, leadership skills and academic success. Rotary is committed to...
“You don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” Depending upon your age, these words may recall the lyrics of a 1970s folk song by Joni Mitchell. But you might want to listen up and consider these words another kind of warning—especially if you’re a man. More people with hearing loss. Today, twice as many people have hearing loss as in the 1980s. And sadly the trend isn’t improving. A recent report predicted that the number of U.S. adults with hearing loss will rise to nearly a quarter of th...
Major improvements to the train track that climbs up Tehachapi Canyon -- including double tracking and new sidings – are eliminating choke points and enabling longer trains to navigate the winding, steep route. "The project alleviates bottlenecks and creates fluidity along the section," Sacramento-based Union Pacific spokesman Justin Jacobs told Forde Files. Union Pacific owns the track, and BNSF (formerly Burlington Northern Santa Fe) has trackage rights. The improvements are a combined p...
