Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Kern County's Second District Supervisor, Zack Scrivner, announced plans this week to allocate nearly $8.7 million for park improvements and maintenance throughout his district, which stretches from Boron on the edge of Eastern Kern to Taft and Frazier Park near the county's western boundary. Funding for the improvements at eight county parks in District 2 will come from several different sources. Recently, the county secured $3,023,637 from the Clean California Grant administered by the...
When you want to visit an art gallery, the first place that comes to mind usually isn't an outlet mall. But that's changing these days. In the Laughlin Outlet Center in Laughlin, Nevada there is a wonderful gallery called the Florida D. Grecco Fine Art Gallery, named for the owner. On my last trip out that way I met Florida and had a great little visit with her. If it were closer to Tehachapi, I'd go there to check out the art more often than the two or three times a year I get to Laughlin. The...
The Bakersfield National Cemetery announces its Annual Memorial Day Weekend Ceremony on Saturday, May 28 at 9 a.m. at their location at 30338 East Bear Mountain Blvd, Arvin, CA 93203. The public is invited to this patriotic event as we pay tribute to those who have served our country with dignity and honor. Barry Zoeller, VP of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations at Tejon Ranch, will serve as our Master of Ceremonies. The ceremony will include a Garrison flag provided by the Kern County Fire Department, Color Guard by the Kern Count...
Mary Mildred (Jerri) Sabovich died in Savannah, Georgia on March 9, having reached 94 years of life on Feb. 28. She joins her husband Dan, and sons Danny and Mark that predeceased her and hopefully now has the company of their love. This beautiful, talented and fiery redhead came from very humble beginnings, but always had high expectations and succeeded in becoming a respected and successful wife, mother, artist, community volunteer and a wonderful friend to many people. Jerri was born 1928 in...
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 12 – TehachaPod gets a chance to talk to Tehachapi Police Chief Kent Kroeger in detail about recent crimes, arrests and crime prevention. Chief Kroeger, when talking about crime reductions in the City of Tehachapi, feels it's about the public perception of feeling safe as well as seeing crime numbers drop. "How are people feeling, do people feel safe today, that it's safer today than it was a year ago," said Kroeger in the podcast. We talk to him about crime prevention and h...
The Chamber of Commerce for Mojave announced they had received a $3 million grant to renovate the Mojave East Park. The park is located next to the fire station on O Street. Mission Bank is leaving Mojave and the accounts are being transferred to their Lancaster branch. Elderly residents and local businesses are concerned about the distance they will have to travel in order to do their banking. Alta One wants to fill the void left by Mission Bank. Alta One is looking to partner with a local business to share floorspace. Their goal is to have a...
Cerro Coso Community College (CCCC) would like to reassure the residents of Tehachapi and surrounding communities, it is not leaving. “The college is working collegially with the Tehachapi Unified School District (TUSD) to restructure facility space at the Snyder Avenue campus in a way that meets the needs of both educational institutions,” said CCCC President Dr. Sean Hancock. “While the details are still being worked out, it is agreed that Cerro Coso Community College will remain at the Tehac...
The Tehachapi City Council began their March 7 meeting by recognizing Tehachapi's community service organization #loveTehachapi, which received the Regional Award of Merit for Community Involvement from the Kern Council of Governments (KernCOG). The group had been nominated for the award by the City of Tehachapi. Read the full story on page 3. Approved by the Council was an airport dust mitigation agreement with the Eastern Kern Pollution Control District for a grant to control dust at the east...
In recognition of her community service, Cassie Wright was named by Assemblyman Vince Fong as the 34th Assembly District's 2022 Woman of the Year. Wright is known for her dedicated service to the many charitable organizations in Kern County. Most recently, Wright brought 911 At Ease International to Kern County to provide free mental health services for first responders and their families. "As a business leader, philanthropist and community advocate, Cassie is especially deserving of this...
Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced on March 2 that the County of Kern has been awarded a $3,023,637 grant for improvements at Mojave East Park. The funding was made possible through a County of Kern submitted "Clean California" Local Grant Program application, a program focused on beautification and improvement of local streets and roads, tribal lands, parks, pathways, and transit centers to clean and enhance public spaces. "Park improvements for the Mojave area are a high priority...
In early November 2021 Catherine and Tom Carr moved from Big Pine, California to Tehachapi. It was Catherine's work that brought them here. Catherine is the East Kern Regional Planner for District 9 of CalTrans (California Department of Transportation) and Tehachapi is in District 9. The Carrs had lived in Big Pine for two and a half years. Tom's word for their stay there was "brutal." He said it was 100 miles to the closest Walmart which also made it a six-hour round trip. However, that is not...
At 19 years old, dual citizen of both Belgium and the United Kingdom, Zara Rutherford is the youngest woman to fly solo around the world and the first to circumnavigate the world in a microlight aircraft. COVID restrictions denied her the ability to explore at stops in places like Costa Rica, Egypt and Singapore and she says it was bitter cold flying over Siberia. The fires in California forced her to change flight plans and make an unscheduled stop in Seattle. China refused to let her fly over...
Kern County is an organization grounded in ideas, energy, and innovation. We are a driving force in California's economy – the fifth largest in the world. We're proud to feed and fuel communities, providing essential services to the people in our state, nation, and beyond. Kern County is a hub for aerospace and defense, agriculture, energy, oil, mining, and logistics. Our region ranks third in the nation for most diversified economy, and fifth in the nation for millennial attraction, as our t...
• There are 8,737 newly reported confirmed cases in Kern County bringing our total confirmed cases to date to 189,849. (As Jan. 17 was a county holiday, our dashboard was last updated Friday, Jan. 14) • There are eight new deaths being reported on Jan. 18 and a total of 1,972 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic. • The seven-day case rate is 155.3 per 100,000. • As of Jan. 17, 1,081,315 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to Kern County residents. 453,361 or 53% of Kern’s eligible population have been fully vac...
In the early 1800s, the entire San Joaquin Valley of Central California was populated by the Native Americans of that region. The larger portion of the population were Yokut, but there were a significant number of alternate tribes in the area. The Gold Rush and the influx of settlers and miners were to inevitably displace the natural residents of the area. It was not to the Native Americans' advantage as there was bloodshed and broken treaties. The resistance continued for decades with...
The Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District is looking for "a new vision for the community," the district's CEO Caroline Wasielewski told the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) on Nov. 3. The quest for a new vision offers the public the opportunity to be involved in shaping the community's healthcare resources. Now that Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley operates and manages the new district-owned hospital, she said, "our task is to provide healthcare without running a...
I had gone to see an early movie in Lancaster with my friend Manney Cowan one summer Saturday, and we were driving back home to Tehachapi on the back road -- 90th Street West. We passed a large ranch with a lot of cars parked around it, and some white balloons and paper bells out by the road that were the unmistakable signs of a wedding at a private estate. "It's still early," (it was about 8:30 p.m.) Manney said, "I think we should pay our respects to the bride and groom." This despite the...
Laura Lynne Wyatt, Tehachapi’s assistant to Supervisor Zack Scrivner, announced at the December 1 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council that East Kern will remain two districts instead of becoming one. The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 at their November 9 meeting to keep East Kern as two districts. Supervisor Leticia Perez had proposed a new map which would have made East Kern from Ridgecrest to Rosamond one supervisory district....
(Note: This is the twenty-seventh article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country.) Henry Leonard ("Len") Ochsner was born on February 3, 1923, in the township of Hellgate, Montana, at the western end of the Missoula Valley on the banks of the Clark Fork River. (As a historian, I cannot resist a fascinating historical note: "Members of the Bitterroot Salish [or Flathead] Native American tribe often traveled through the Missoula Valley on their...
The Rotary Club of Tehachapi celebrated the formal induction of two new members at their November 18 lunch meeting: Adriana Garthwaite, new owner of the Tehachapi Christian Store with her husband, Peter, and George Green, new owner of the Radio Shack. Jennifer Palakiko of Edward Jones has gone through the final vetting process and should be inducted into the Club soon. The Club is delighted to add new and younger members to their ranks. The featured speaker, Justina Engen of the Tehachapi...
Dear Chairman Peters and Supervisors: The Mojave Chamber of Commerce asks that you approve Draft Plan A as the revised map of Kern County Supervisors’ districts required by the decennial redistricting mandate. We ask this because we believe that this proposal best represents the interests of Mojave and the communities of Eastern Kern County. Every ten years a proposal to include all of eastern Kern into one huge district is proposed, replacing the current two districts which recognize the unique features of southeastern and northeastern Kern C...
There is a remarkable native plant that can be found growing mostly unnoticed in the Tehachapi Mountains. It has several unusual qualities, and once you are aware of these, you are unlikely to forget it. It is known most commonly in our area as Coyote Gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima), though it has acquired numerous aliases. Among these are buffalo gourd, calabazilla, wild gourd, fetid gourd, chilicote, prairie gourd, wild pumpkin and more. The Mountain Lion is the animal credited with more differ...
Season 2, Episode 106 Saida Woolf, a 17-year-old Tehachapi resident, has completed her "Soulstream" comic book series and it has been combined into a 132-page book published by Simon & Schuster. Saida shares the journey of writing and creating all the art for her fantasy superhero comic book on TehachaPod. She talks about her experiences working with Scout Comics, who helped her through the writing. Woolf will be appearing at the Errea House Museum, 311 N. Green Street, in Downtown Tehachapi on...
Following the U.S. Census every ten years, redistricting takes place to adjust for population shifts and changes. As we have done every 10 years since Kern became a California county 1866, Kern County is tasked with redrawing our supervisorial district lines again this year. Although this process only happens every ten years, a common story is being told about the desert and mountain areas that make up Eastern Kern County, largely by those who don't live here. This tired and familiar story uses...
