Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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A group of students from Tehachapi High School presented a petition to the school board at the March 10, 2015 board meeting. The petition containing 705 signatures requesting that Tehachapi High School remove a regulation which currently forbids students to stay in their cars before school. They must stand outside in the frigid morning air before the doors open. According to the spokespersons for the group, Jacob Balkar and Naithan Sischo, the school has taken away one of their freedoms. In an...
The Arts, Science & Technology Educational Corporation of Tehachapi (AST) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in Tehachapi in 2009 to support local educators in the areas of Arts, Science and Technology. Its mission is to enable educators to enhance the classroom experience, supplement the core curriculum, and foster a creative atmosphere during the teaching/learning process. AST supports a wide variety of curriculum enhancement, events and needs in all schools in the...
As local bicyclists and participants in the inaugural GranFondo discover the joys of riding in the Tehachapi area, bike racks are appearing - somewhat slowly - on the landscape. Forde Files offers kudos to the downtown establishments who lead the way, notably KMart, which has a bike rack in front and another in back., presumably for the employees. There are no bike racks to be found anywhere at any of the malls on Tucker Road. Indeed, signs at the malls make it clear that cyclists are not...
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...
The Rotary year officially ends on June 30th. Consequentially, a new Rotary President takes office on July 1st. The Rotary Club of Tehachapi is so very proud of the service that has been accomplished this year under the helm of our Past President, Judy Trujillo. Rotary has won two distinguished awards from our District including Best Small Club and International Service. The Rotary Club of Tehachapi has spearheaded many successful service projects this year including battery replacement for...
Abernathy Collegiate Charter School, a free public school launched in 2013 amid some community opposition, has come a long way in banishing doubts about its viability. "We've been able to prove ourselves," Principal Shyanne Ledford said. "We have gotten a name for high standards and rigor." Abernathy, which is adding tenth grade to its sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades next year, is enrolling students until July 11 for the fall. "There is such significant interest that we may have to...
The 2014 Tehachapi Relay for Life has kicked off and teams are needed! Teams make Relay, and it is the Teams who raise funds for research so that we may have more Survivors on the track and in our lives. Relay is a Team Event sponsored by the American Cancer Society. For 24 hours teams of one to 100 walk the track at Jacobsen Middle School in honor of or in memory of all those who have fought cancer; cancer never sleeps and neither do the teams. Today, two out of three cancer patients will...
Today, two out of every three cancer patients will beat cancer; and one reason is the research conducted by groups such as the American Cancer Society. Relay For Life, an ACS event, has become the largest community event helping to raise funds for the ACS. The Tehachapi community has been Relaying for 10 years, and kicked-off their 11th year in February. Teams are now forming for the 2014 Relay for Life, which will be held July 12-13 once again at Coy Burnett Field at Jacobsen Middle School....
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...
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...
