Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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On Wednesday, July 22, Tehachapi Mayor Susan Wiggins signed a letter of support from the city council for the Tehachapi Wine Grower's Association and the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Councils request to become an American Viticultural Area (AVA) known as the "Tehachapi Mountains." Currently local Tehachapi wine producers must use the designation of produced in California due to the lack of an AVA acknowledgement as a wine production area. The AVA designation of "Tehachapi Mountains"...
Council supports AVA designation On June 26, the City of Tehachapi was notified that the U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau was reviewing the application submitted in 2018 by the Tehachapi Winegrowers Commission to establish the approximately 58,000-acre “Tehachapi Mountains” AVA (American Viticultural Area). This division of the U.S. Treasury Department assigns specific viticultural areas to allow vintners to better describe the origin of their wines and to allow consumers to bet...
To Whom it May Concern, As the County Supervisor representing the Tehachapi region, I wholeheartedly support the proposed American Viticulture Area of "Tehachapi Mountains" Docket No. TTB-2020-0006. I believe that the proposed rules of this AVA, the boundaries, and the name "Tehachapi Mountains" appropriately reflect the intent of the vintners within the proposed area and will be properly presented to consumers once placed on the bottles. I achnowledge the work the Tehachapi Win Grower's...
Our great Tehachapi Valley has been through quite a bit this year. And yes, it’s not over. High school and college graduations cancelled, student promotions cancelled, businesses closing, schools closing, people losing their jobs, young loves having to postpone their weddings, futures put on hold. It’s tough to say the least. Our personal health as well as our financial health are at risk in these times. I find this is the time when we need each other most. Since becoming a full time resident of the Tehachapi area, I’ve grown to love every...
Stolen hearts - Alex Mullenax's sidekick captured hearts at the March 4 Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) meeting at the Slice of Life Enrichment School. The soft, curious, friendly critter was a week-and-a-half old miniature breed of dairy goat called a Nigerian Dwarf. It had been rejected by its mother as defective and Alex is raising it by hand. She is taking suggestions for names. Edwards envoy - Edwards Air Force Base Installation Director Dr. David Smith, featured...
City Council updates connection, water/sewer fees The Tehachapi City Council recently approved a new slate of water and sewer connection fees that result in a net-decrease for new businesses looking to invest and build in the City of Tehachapi. Led by the Development Services Department, the City of Tehachapi contracted with MKN and Associates for an in-depth study on the rates for new commercial and residential construction projects as it pertains to potential expansion of the City's water and...
On Friday, Feb. 7, State Senator Shannon Grove held a Town Hall at the Slice of Life Enrichment School in Tehachapi. The purpose of the meeting was to address the Public Safety Power Shutoffs during the autumn of 2019. Also taking part were representatives from Southern California Edison; Laura Lynne Wyatt of Kern County Board of Supervisors; Tehachapi City Officials Greg Garrett and Key Budge; Kern County Fire Department; Deputy Michael Dorkin and spokesperson Megan Person of the Kern County...
The full impact and force of the California government's climate change directives burst forth on Jan. 14 at the Kern County Supervisors meeting, as hundreds of people overflowed the chamber to protest new state initiatives that are key ingredients in the long march toward shutting down of the oil industry. The initiatives, which include a moratorium on various drilling permits, have hit Kern County hard, creating a climate of uncertainty, a drop in investment and confusion in the production pip...
Kern County Supervisors prioritized public safety when they closed the $44.5 million fiscal deficit that became apparent four years ago. "We cut only 12.8 percent. Fire [Dept] was never cut. We did not cut the Sheriff or the DA," 2nd District Supervisor and Tehachapi resident Zack Scrivner said in his presentation at the Jan. 8 Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council meeting at the Slice of Life Enrichment School. With the submission of the 2019-2020 budget in August, the supervisors...
Tehachapi native Louis Tolentino, new owner of The Coffee Mill restaurant at 120 S. Mill St., plans to offer extended hours and an expanded menu. He has added a new chef to partner with the current chef to give the enterprise culinary distinction. He announced the changes at the Jan. 8 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council. The chef will focus on vegan and vegetarian dishes while offering some meat dishes as well. "His flavors are out of this world," Tolentino said of...
The Loop newspaper staff joined other members of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council in celebrating the holidays at Dorner Family Vineyard on Dec. 17. The event was catered by Moessner Farm....
Tehachapi rocks – In his presentation to the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council on Nov. 5 at the Slice of Life Enrichment School, Tehachapi Economic Development Director Corey Costelloe reported that the median single-family home sale price in the city of Tehachapi is $265,000, compared to a median price of $663,110 for homes in Los Angeles County. The overall price per square foot is $173.89 and the average price on new construction is $340,000 for an 1,800 square foot home. The m...
Towneplace Suites by Marriott issued Building Permit for new Tehachapi hotel in Capital Hills After receiving approval from the Planning Commission in early 2019, the developers of the new Towneplace Suites by Marriott in Capital Hills have been issued their building permit. The three-story hotel will consist of 82 rooms and will be over 46,000 square feet. Holiday shopping still needs physical stores, plenty available locally The International Council of Shopping Centers claims that this...
It's certainly the holiday season as our public works team completes one of my favorite tasks, putting up the Christmas decorations Downtown. We reinvested in new decorations a year ago with LED snowflakes along with illuminated garlands adorning each Downtown light post. This year we purchased a few more for Mill Street and the new transit center so the entrance to our City off of Highway 58 and the heavily-used parking and ridesharing facility had the same dose of Christmas cheer. Thanks once...
At their Aug. 8 meeting, Tehachapi Rotary hosted local artist Dwight Dreyer. Dreyer is president of the newly formed Tehachapi Arts Commission, an affiliate of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council. Their mission is to bring representational fine art and art collectors to Tehachapi. To that end, they have planned Art 2020, inviting nationally known artists and locals to paint "en plein air" throughout Tehachapi from May 16-22, 2020. The artists will be encouraged to paint...
It won't be long before every parent in the Tehachapi Unified School District will know Stacey Larson-Everson. On April 9, the District Board of Trustees announced that they had chosen Stacey as the new TUSD Superintendent. It was then that Stacey and her husband Lance Larson began to plan their relocation from Fallbrook, Calif. in San Diego County where they had lived on their ranch for 14 years. It was in Fallbrook that they went through 4H with their four kids, cared for their six horses and...
This year, with the Sierra snowpack at 180 percent of normal, the Kern River is a raging monster. While the water flow has peaked on both the upper Kern (above Lake Isabella) and the lower Kern (below the lake), the river still is dangerous. The increased flow is awesome for rafters who thrill to the whitewater challenges in safe, professionally managed operations, but it can be lethal for visitors who do not understand the danger they are facing, and who underestimate the sheer power of the...
Sierra Technical Services Capitalizing on Success Tehachapi's Sierra Technical Services is approaching the final stages of assembly and eventually testing of their 5GAT target drone and as a result of their success are in line for additional contracts and expansion. The small business with 50 employees is located at Tehachapi Municipal Airport. President Roger Hayes and his wife Debra started the company 13 years ago and STS continues to be a small-business success story. Their recent project, t...
The Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council bid farewell to Michelle Vance, the organization's secretary and manager of the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District at its May 1 meeting at the Slice of Life Enrichment School. Vance is moving to Colorado to take the position of Economic Development Director of the city of Wellington, which has almost the same population (9,527) as Tehachapi. "I'm going back to Tehachapi in 2000," Vance said. "They need me. I love the opportunity. I...
At the March 6 Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council, Aaron Falk, representative for Congressman Kevin McCarthy read a letter the congressman and five other members of Congress sent to President Trump on Feb. 28 recommending Kern County as the perfect place to base the new Space Development Agency. The letter stated that Edwards Air Force Base and Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and the extensive areas of restricted air space of Kern County are well-equipped to be the headquarters...
New Tea Donuts owner expands operation to Tehachapi - Feb. 19. The donut business is a family affair for new Tea Donuts owner Chantha Sokny Lay. Her family has owned and operated Foster's Donuts in Bakersfield for 15 years and now she's taking a swing at the donut world in Tehachapi. Sokny Lay is another example of a successful business owner in Bakersfield expanding their interests into the Tehachapi market. The Chester and Columbus Foster's Donuts being her education in the business, and now...
At the end of last year, the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) added a student representative to their board. Andres Pena was chosen to fill that position. Pena and his friend and business partner Julian Romero spearheaded the formation of an entrepreneurial club at Tehachapi High School. Pena said that with the help of their faculty adviser Ms. Guadalupe, they hope to make the group self-sufficient before they graduate in June. Pena and Romero started their business last...
Beginning in February, City Manager Greg Garrett began a tour of civic organizations, presenting the City's "2018 Annual Review: Moments that Mattered." Although his initial audio/visual program at the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council encountered Wi-Fi problems, his second presentation to the Tehachapi Rotary Club on Feb. 7 went off without a hitch. The presentation began with a video welcome by Mayor Susan Wiggins. Garrett introduced a video of each department head who in turn...
Keeps getting better – The city of Tehachapi will be debt-free in two years, Tehachapi City Manager Greg Garrett told the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council on Feb. 6. "The budget is solid as a rock," he said. The city is financing the new Police Department parking lot in-house. He said the city has partnered with Waste Management and churches in a community engagement program to help people clean up their yards. Some people are older and can't manage the task on their own, and o...
12 has arrived and as the City Manager I have the privilege of spending some time in the coming weeks bragging about the accomplishments over the last 12 months in our soon-to-be-released 2018 Annual Report. For those that aren't familiar, each year we release an annual report that recaps the accomplishments by our City in the previous year and spend late January and February presenting the multimedia version of the report as a guest speaker at various community gatherings, including the...
