Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Happy Holidays from the Tehachapi Arts Center To all our friends, customers and members, we hope your holiday season is pleasant and memorable. We're excited to join with the city and our neighboring businesses this season to celebrate the holidays, starting with the Tehachapi Hometown Christmas celebration. Aside from the Homemade Christmas gifts, ornaments, cards and decorations, we will be offering a warm place and hot chocolate for event attendees, as well an ornament decorating class for...
At the Oct. 3 City Council meeting, with Police Chief Kent Kroeger standing by, Mayor Phil Smith swore in three new officers of the Tehachapi Police Department. City Manager Greg Garrett also mentioned that the TPD recently received gold medal recognition status from Lexipol for their implementation of policy. The plaque hangs in the lobby of the Tehachapi Police Department. Also appointed at the City Council meeting was new City Treasurer Mariana Gutierrez. Following the resignation of Stacey...
I began this series of articles by telling you that Mojave Air & Space Port District at Rutan Field is celebrating 50 years of success this year. This airport was built in 1935 by Kern County to help the local gold mine transport the gold ore to Sacramento for processing. It began life as a small dirt strip, until 1942 when General William J. Fox, USMC selected the field as a Marine Corps Air Station. Part two told how the airport district was formed in 1972, when Dan Sabovich was the General...
The Tehachapi Rotary Club speaker on Oct. 6 was Tehachapi Cummings County Water District General Manager Tom Neisler. The TCCWD services approximately 40,000 people, said Neisler, including Stallion Springs, Golden Hills, City of Tehachapi and some of Bear Valley Springs. Neisler believes California is in the midst of a 1,200-year drought. Tehachapi's water comes from Oroville Dam down the 400-mile California Aqueduct to the Edmundston Pumping Plant at the base of the Grapevine. The water is pum...
On Sept. 26 the 1,000th Tehachapi resident opted into the free non-emergent text messaging platform to communicate with the City of Tehachapi. Eighteen months ago on April 8, 2021, the City of Tehachapi added a text communication platform for residents to reach us via text message. Text My Gov was added for non-emergent text communication notifications for citizens to notify the City of Tehachapi departments of various issues, concerns or receive information via text message. “We wanted to be able to offer additional communication tools for t...
Special events in Tehachapi draw crowds and economic impact The economic impact of special events in the City of Tehachapi is an important economic driver for both locals and tourists alike. There is the benefit of these events, whether it is hotel stays for larger events or additional revenue for small and large businesses while people visit Tehachapi and Downtown, specifically. There is also the impact brought on by the event itself, this includes the time by City Public Works, police and admi...
At their Sept. 6 meeting, the Tehachapi City Council approved Griffith Construction as the firm to complete the long awaited Pinon St. extension from Brandon Ln. to Dennison Rd. To complete the project, the City of Tehachapi successfully applied for Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) funds that were available through the Kern Council of Governments (KernCOG) for just such a purpose. The funds totaling $885,299 will provide for 88.53% of the project. The project requires an 11% match...
Chances are, you live in Tehachapi because you love it. You find it special somehow. Can you describe it? Let's see how some of your neighbors feel about Tehachapi: "Tehachapi has a quaint feeling that's endearing. Just the way the train station sits next to the bakery, across from the (Depot) museum. The lit-up Christmas tree and Christmas songs playing while you're walking down the street – so beautiful! The summer barbecues that raise money for the VFW. These things signify to me a small t...
Mojave Air & Space Port District at Rutan Field is celebrating 50 years of success this year. This airport was built in 1935 by Kern County to help the local gold mine transport the gold ore to Sacramento for processing. It began as a small dirt strip, until 1942 when General William J. Fox, USMC selected the field as a Marine Corps Air Station. It became a major training facility for the Marines who flew Chance-Vought F4U Corsairs during World War II. The Marines moved to Yuma in 1959. The orig...
The Tehachapi City Council voted unanimously to place the “City of Tehachapi Local Control/Essential Services Measure” on the November 2022 ballot. If approved by voters, the measure would enact a 1-cent local sales tax until ended by voters, providing a stable source of locally controlled funds that cannot be taken by the federal, state or county governments. “Sacramento actions have cost us millions of dollars here in Tehachapi,” said City Manager Greg Garrett. “Between their takeaways and unfunded regulations on our local industrie...
The City of Tehachapi is proud to once again host the All-American 4th of July Festival presented by AltaOne Federal Credit Union, with a full day of events on Monday, July 4th, culminating with the annual fireworks display at 9 p.m. originating from the Tehachapi Municipal Airport. This year's title sponsor is AltaOne Federal Credit Union. For over 75 years, AltaOne has helped its members and communities thrive, through good times and bad, and has grown into one of the largest financial...
The Tehachapi American Legion Post 221, TVRPD and the City of Tehachapi hosted the Memorial Day Parade and Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday, May 30. The community came out to Downtown Tehachapi to watch the parade and followed it to Central Park for the Memorial Day Ceremony....
On Thursday, June 2, the City of Tehachapi will hold the first Tehachapi Farmers Market for the summer of 2022. "We love to showcase our downtown Tehachapi businesses, and the Farmers Market is a reason for our community to come down and not only see what is on display at the Farmers Market but also all of our businesses in downtown. Come out, buy some fresh produce, enjoy the live music, and then stop by and grab dinner and a movie from one of our small businesses," said Greg Garrett City...
On May 16, the Tehachapi City Council proclaimed May 15-21 as National Police Week in Tehachapi. Mayor Phil Smith presented Tehachapi Police Chief Kent Kroeger and members of the Tehachapi Police Department with the proclamation at the beginning of the council meeting that night. Mayor Smith expressed his deepest thanks to the law enforcement community and our Tehachapi Police Officers. Chief Kroeger accepted the proclamation on behalf of all men and women who serve and protect their...
National Police Week At the City Council meeting held on May 16, Mayor Phil Smith presented a certificate proclaiming May 16-21 National Police Week. Following that presentation, Smith honored Sgt. Amelia Thompson with a Certificate of Recognition for her 15 years of service with the Tehachapi Police Department. Thompson, who has been with the department since 2007, is retiring and moving to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Thompson said if she had it to do over she would still pick Tehachapi, adding that...
Budget season is undoubtedly a crucial time each year. With the City of Tehachapi operating on a July 1-June 30 fiscal calendar, we must work to adopt a new five-year budget in the month of June. While fiscal responsibility has served us well over the last few decades, the budget process this year is especially difficult thanks in part to the rising costs of basic contract services, including critical fire safety from the County of Kern, and a slew of unfunded mandates by the State of...
Tehachapi's two Destination Imagination teams are looking for your support to help them get to Global Finals in Kansas City, Missouri on May 21-24, where they will be competing with other teams from around the world! Recently, both Destination Imagination teams won first place in California in the engineering challenge. Destination Imagination is a fun, hands-on system of learning that fosters students' creativity, courage and curiosity through open-ended academic challenges in the fields of...
May 2022 proclaimed Community Action Month At their May 2 meeting, the Tehachapi City Council unanimously proclaimed the month of May 2022 as Community Action Month and presented a Certificate of Recognition to Pritika Ram of Community Action Partnership Kern (CAPK). Ram told councilmembers that Community Action Partnership was formed in May of 1965 as part of the War on Poverty. It now administers 17 programs in Kern County aimed at meeting child, family and individual needs. Under Ram's...
Once again Tehachapi volunteers are coming forward to show pride in their community for an Earth Day litter removal event on April 22 and 23 from 10 a.m. to noon. "Community pride is one of the things that makes Tehachapi such a wonderful place to live. This has become a joint effort between the citizens, local businesses, nonprofits groups and local government working together to make Tehachapi even better," said Greg Garrett, Tehachapi city manager. With the winds in Tehachapi quickly blowing...
At the April 4 City Council meeting, Tehachapi City Manager Greg Garrett announced that an upcoming CalTrans project on Highway 58 is currently available for public comment, but will not be completed until 2025. According to CalTrans, the project is currently in the design phase and includes 11.3 miles of Highway 58 to be located between Bealville Rd. and two miles west of the Highway 202 offramp. They will be upgrading existing pavement, guardrails, bridge rails, median barriers, drainage and...
Season 3, Episode 15 – Tehachapi Update – Mini-Pod TehachaPod debuts a new addition to the TehachaPod lineup with a mini-pod(cast). The goal of the mini-pod is to provide a quick update on some of the upcoming community events and monthly meetings. A short conversation to remind the community of what to look forward to. Joining Budge on the first mini-pod is Jeanette Pauer the president of the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce. Jeanette shares updates from what is happening in April and ear...
The City of Tehachapi Finance Department has been recognized again for budget transparency with an award from the California Society of Municipal Officers (CSMFO). The CSMFO awarded the Excellence in Budgeting Award to the City of Tehachapi for its Fiscal Year 2021-22 budget document. This award is designed to recognize those agencies whose budget documents meet certain state-wide standards and requirements considered to be of the highest quality. “The award demonstrates the City’s com...
Friends of the Tehachapi Depot gathered on March 8 to celebrate the transfer of ownership of the caboose that is currently located next to the Depot. Joining FOTD were members of Tehachapi City Council, City Manager Greg Garrett and former caboose owner Hans Kahl. FOTD had wanted to buy the caboose for many years but owner Kahl, who also owns the Gold Coast Station train store in Tehachapi, wasn't ready to sell it. This year Kahl approached FOTD saying he had received another offer but...
One of the reasons Tehachapi is a great place to live is the people that make up our community. On Thursday, March 3 the Kern Council of Governments (KernCOG) recognized the volunteer group known as #loveTehachapi for Regional Award of Merit for Community Involvement at their annual banquet held in Bakersfield. KernCOG is a regional planning agency made up of local government agencies with multi-jurisdictional plans in air quality, transportation, water quality, energy and housing. #loveTehachap...
AltaOne Federal Credit Union will be expanding to better serve the Tehachapi area by adding a new branch location. Located at 665 Tucker Road, in the Orchard Center, the new 3,815-square-foot branch will offer consumer banking and lending; business banking and lending; real estate lending; wealth management and will be adding night depository, safe deposit box and drive-up teller services. A conference room will also be available for community groups to use. The branch is expected to open in June. “The Tehachapi team is beyond excited to o...
