Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Tompkins rocks! –The Tompkins Parent Teacher Group, whose president is Amanda Schmidt, purchased a programmable sign that is now installed in front of the school. School staff is just learning how to program it, which at present gives the time and temperature and welcome. The group paid $12,000 for the sign. They also bought the Buddy Bench for the playground, where lonely or disengaged youngsters can sit and wait for a friend or staff (see cover photo), and paid for the big Tompkins Tigers s...
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...
New Superintendent -- The Tehachapi Unified School District Board of Trustees welcomed new superintendent Susan Andreas-Bernel with a unanimous vote of approval and a contract signing ceremony at the May 27 board meeting in the district board room. The board expressed pleasure with the result of their intensive search that followed the announcement of the departure of Superintendent Lisa Gilbert, who has taken a position with the Kern County Superintendent of Schools. "The superintendent we're...
Lawman in the air The Tehachapi Police Department outfoxed several men who thought it was amusing to shine a laser light at a pilot landing at Tehachapi Municipal Airport on the evening of Sunday, May 4. The pilot was temporarily disoriented by exposure to the laser, which bounces around the cabin and creates upheaval. He contacted Tehachapi police. TPD Officer Chris Boston went aloft with the pilot in an attempt to draw the laser. After 20 minutes, the laser again targeted the aircraft. TPD...
Soledad Mountain rises above a sea of wind turbines in Mojave, seen from Oak Creek Road. The barren, rugged mountain harbors veins of gold and silver that individual miners and companies have dug for more than a century. With modern extraction techniques, the Golden Queen Mining Co. Ltd. will commence industrial-scale mining in 2015, providing 140 to 150 jobs. "The Next California Gold Producer," says the company's web site of its Soledad Mountain Project. "The project will use conventional...
The Antelope Valley Board of Trade Annual Business Outlook Conference ventured for the first in 42 years into Kern County, and the county emerged as a star. "The most rapidly growing economy is Kern County," economist Christopher Thornberg told the 1,000 attendees. "Folks, you live in a boom town. This is great!" Kern County, he said, has construction, retail, good local government and abundant energy resources. In Los Angeles County, he said, "The hotels are on fire." Kern County 2nd District...
Our loss – Lisa Gilbert, Tehachapi Unified School District's dynamic superintendent, has accepted the position of Chief Academic Officer for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools. Gilbert will finish the school year in Tehachapi and start her new job July 1. She will oversee curriculum instruction and accountability, migrant education for region five, school community partnerships and Community Connections for Child Care. "I'm excited," Gilbert told Forde Files. "Those particular areas of t...
