Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Kern County Fire Department hosted an open house for its newest seasonal fire station in the Tehachapi Valley. Located on property owned by the Golden Hills CSD, Station 13 as it's known is a "full service fire station" staffed 24hrs a day with a fire Captain, Engineer, and Firefighter. With their paramedic training and fire fighting capabilities the residents west of Tucker Road will be receiving much faster response times. Construction of the permanent Golden Hills station is right on track...
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...
Fran Riggs had many reasons to move to Tehachapi when she retired. Although she had been born in Kern County, she has not lived here for many years. She did, however, still have family in the area and she had always loved the mountain setting and the change of seasons so Tehachapi seemed a natural choice when it came time to retire and move from the crowded city environment of Fullerton. Last fall Fran finally retired from 13 years as a buyer for the City of Fullerton. I was not sure what a...
