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  • We were a tank town!

    Pat Gracey|Oct 14, 2017

    I just ran onto a photo of our community water tank from years past; the caption at the bottom says, circa 1914. Circa is a way of saying "about" or "approximately" or "darned if I know!" Close enough. It's from the Ed Wiggins collection and were it not for Ed's saved photos Tehachapi's pictorial history would be sadly lacking. He was the ancestor of Tehachapi's pioneer Wiggins family. He took many, many pictures but did not take this picture of the water tower for Ed was born around 1918! The...

  • Lion Heart MMA Self Defense class

    Oct 14, 2017

    Lion Heart MMA Studio owner Richard Meister, offered a free seminar to young people in the art of simple self-defense counter measures....

  • 2017 Apple Festival

    The Loop Newspaper|Oct 14, 2017

    Kelli Knapp's award winning pie recipe Crust: 5 cup flour, 3 tsp salt, 1 egg, 1 cup water, and 2 cups Crisco (from can not oil). Mix all dry ingredients together, add egg and water mixture to dry ingredients, knead well all ingredients, cut into 5 cubes, each cube is a crust. Makes 5 crusts. Filling: 8 to 10 Fuji apples, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 2 cups brown sugar, 4 tablespoons butter, and squirt bottle of Caramel sauce Mix apples, cinnamon and brown sugar together. Put this mixture into bottom...

  • Money doesn't always talk

    Bill Mead, Columnist Emeritus|Oct 14, 2017

    Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission There's an anecdote about multi-millionaire cowboy actor Gene Autry that claims he kept paying his dues to the telegraphers union long after he had amassed more wealth than he could count. The way the story goes, he told his wife he wanted to keep his options open in case the movie business went sour. Like most yarns about famous folks, this one probably isn't true. Nevertheless, it does capture Autry's attitude, as...

  • Adopt-a-Landscape program

    Oct 14, 2017

    Keeping downtown Tehachapi beautiful is something that we can take pride in and with the City of Tehachapi's Adopt-a-Landscape program, the City is once again promoting this twelve-month program and encouraging businesses, organizations, families and individuals to sponsor the landscape maintenance of areas within the city limits. With your sponsorship, the City will provide the landscaping and maintenance at one of the designated locations of your choice. Specific maintenance includes...