Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Rather than writing about local history that my mother recorded, I decided to write about history in the making – in 2015. Last week I attended a meeting of the East Kern Economic Development Alliance, a group of East Kern movers and shakers, who meet every other month to discuss how to improve the cities and communities in Eastern Kern. The group’s logo is East Kern – Innovation rising. Each time the group meets, a different topic is discussed to provide information to those present on how t...
My office and other county officials are working with Eastern Kern communities and Fresno State University to conduct the East Kern Economic Strategy. At this time, Fresno State has met with stakeholders and has put together a funding strategy for the plan that includes 50% from the participating communities (California City, Rosamond, Mojave, Boron, Ridgecrest) and 50% in the form of an Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant from the federal government. Funding from the participants...
Applications for the second round of grants to help revitalize the unincorporated East Kern County communities of Mojave, Boron, Rosamond and Old Town Tehachapi are available now and will be awarded in November. A total of $250,000 in grant money will be disbursed this year for façade improvements, signs, painting, landscaping, awnings, fencing, windows and more. With a growing sense of ownership and pride, residents of the those communities have worked with the Kern County Department of...
School enrollment up – Tehachapi Unified School District (TUSD) Superintendent Susan Andreas-Bervel reported to the district Board of Trustees on Aug. 12, 2014 (the day before school started), that projected student enrollment in the district is up. She said that Cummings Valley Elementary is up three students, Golden Hills elementary is up 14, Tompkins Elementary is up 31, Jacobsen Middle School is up 58, Tehachapi High School is up 86 and Monroe Continuation High School is up 24, for a t...
For the past several years, the County has adopted our final budget in August, after the County accounts for all of its "carryover" funds (monies left over from the previous fiscal year), and more accurate projections on property tax revenue are completed. This has allowed the Board of Supervisors to make budgetary decisions with the most complete and accurate financial information. In prior months, all County departments were asked to prepare their budget requests for Fiscal Year 2014-15 with...
Who are these people strolling the streets of Tehachapi, looking a bit dirty, suntanned, bearded, having backpacks, close enough at the right time of day, body odors. PCT Packers they are. Trail mile 558 is at the Cameron Road and Willow Springs junction, 10 road miles east of Tehachapi. Most began their pilgrimage at the border of Mexico in mid April, and Tehachapi is only a few miles short of their first ¼ of the journey. Tehachapi is a way-point on the trail. Here they resupply, mail a...
Just outside the far eastern edge of Kern County in the northern corner of San Bernardino County, almost in Inyo County, is the unincorporated community of Trona. It was established in 1914 as a company town to mine the rich mineral deposits of the dry lakebed. Searles Valley Minerals owns the industrial operations there. There's nothing shiny and new about Trona; when Hollywood needs a visual and atmosphere of isolation and desolation, it looks to Trona. The community is 89 miles from...
As usual I was digging through my mother Marion Deaver’s files and found some notes about the early days of California City, CA. It was not enough for an entire column, so I went to the East Kern Historical Society for some more information. I think I have mentioned this before here, but my Mother was the first person to find proof of the community of California City actually coming into existence. Everyone denied that Nat Mendelsohn and his group were buying up land from the Mendeburu Ranch i...
I found an article that my mother Marion Deaver wrote in August of 1974 about the price of gold going up and regulations relaxing, and I thought about the Golden Queen Mine, just south of Mojave. In the article my mother interviewed Glenn Settle, owner of Tropico Gold Mine, west of Rosamond. President Gerald Ford had just approved legislation that would allow U.S. citizens to buy and sell gold. In 1974 the hills that rise above the valley in East Kern were mostly quiet, but some like Settle,...
In 2010, the principle water purveyors in the Greater Tehachapi area completed a Regional Urban Water Management Plan. In it, the Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District as Watermaster, the city of Tehachapi and the Golden Hills, Stallion Springs and Bear Valley community services districts mapped out a long-term plan for water management and conservation. The State Water Project's Jan. 31 declaration of a zero allocation for all its customers was not on the radar when that report was written....
Laura Burdick moved to Stallion Springs in August with her two children Luc,14, and Corinne,12. She is very specific when she says she moved from East Lancaster. She said she wanted a safer environment for herself and her children, so she put her house on the market and began searching for a new home. She considered the western areas of Lancaster since the children’s paternal grandparents lived there but the rural setting and seasonal changes of the mountains called to her. When she found a b...
Last week I wrote a column about the mines of Soledad Mountain from the perspective of Viola White Jennings, who with her family lived around that area. The article was from the collection of my mother, Marion Deaver. This week I will wrap up the remembrances of this lady. I concluded last week with Jennings and her sister avoiding snakes on that mountain. In all the years I have roamed around the deserts of East Kern, I have only happened upon a rattlesnake twice. Once however, was in January,...
Tehachapi Police Chief Jeff Kermode reports that FBI-tracked "Part 1" crimes in the city dropped 19 percent from 2012 to 2013. The total number of reported crimes in that category was 580 in 2012. For the year 2013, the total fell to a total of 472. "Part 1" crimes include homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, simple assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft and arson. See chart. The only "Part 1" crime that increased in the city of Tehachapi was rape, with five in 2013 compared to four in...
In light of the fact that California is facing yet another drought season, I decided to write about an article my mother Marion Deaver wrote on the history of water in Mojave and the formation of the Mojave Public Utilities District. Mojave was called the “Land of Little Rain” by Author Mary Austin. Water was, and is, the topic of concern in Mojave and other East Kern communities who strive to provide enough water for present and future development in the region. As you [may] have read in thi...
