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  • Apples, Apples Everywhere - Apple Festival Returns

    Linda Carhart|Sep 27, 2014

    The Apple Festival was an incredible success last year, so its coming back and this year it will be even more apple-y. David Brust, the event organizer, announced that this year the festival will be a two-day event on October 11 and 12 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Railroad Park and Robinson Street, in Tehachapi. Some of the things that you can expect are even more apple related items, including apple cider, apple drinks, more farmers with apples, and each vendor will have something apple-y....

  • Apples, Apples Everywhere - Apple Festival Returns

    Linda Carhart|Sep 13, 2014

    The Apple Festival was an incredible success last year, so its coming back and this year it will be even more apple-y. David Brust, the event organizer, announced that this year the festival will be a two-day event on October 11 and 12 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Railroad Park and Robinson Street, in Tehachapi. Some of the things that you can expect are even more apple related items, including apple cider, apple drinks, more farmers with apples, and each vendor will have something apple-y....

  • Apples, Apples Everywhere

    Linda Carhart|Aug 30, 2014

    The Apple Festival was an incredible success last year, so its coming back and this year it will be even more apple-y. David Brust, the event organizer, announced that this year the festival will be a two-day event on October 11 and 12 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Railroad Park and Robinson Street. Some of the things that you can expect are even more apple related items, including apple cider, apple drinks, more farmers with apples, and each vendor will have something apple-y. Besides the great...

  • Festival Donates Over $11,000 to Local Charities

    Aug 16, 2014

    Tehachapi, CA. – Calling it a "community success" the Tehachapi Mountain Brew and Grill Fest is donating over $11,000 to local charities including the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central California, Tehachapi Boy Scout Troop 136, AYSO Region 479, Tehachapi Lyons Club, Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club, Kiwanis of Tehachapi, Rotary Club of Tehachapi, Rotaract Club of Tehachapi, Tehachapi Masonic Lodge 313, Marley's Mutts, Save Tehachapi's Orphaned Pets and Kelly's Therapeutic Riders. "We are so h...

  • Shedding light on local issues.

    Tina Fisher Cunningham, The Forde Files No 77|Aug 16, 2014

    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...

  • Eat, Drink, and Help Change the World at the Cheers to Charity Sunset Event Aug 9!

    Aug 2, 2014

    Enter to win tickets: http://secure.pagemodo.com/m/W5L748 On Saturday, Aug. 9th, Tehachapi will celebrate under the stars during the first annual Cheers to Charity fund-raiser, held in an expanded and transformed plaza at Veritas Tapas and Wine Bar, located at 695 Tucker Road, Tehachapi. Cheers to Charity benefits local charities and features acoustical music, mouth-watering tapas, California wines and skillfully made craft and home brewed beers - beneath the canopy of a beautiful August night....

  • Community Clean Sweep

    Jun 7, 2014

    On Saturday, Aug. 9, Tehachapi will celebrate under the stars during the first annual Cheers to Charity fundraiser, held in an expanded and transformed plaza at veritas tapas and wine bar, 695 Tucker Road, Tehachapi, CA. Cheers to Charity benefits local charities and features acoustical music, mouth-watering tapas, California wines and skillfully made craft and home brewed beers - beneath the canopy of a beautiful August night. Choice cigars will be available for purchase, a silent auction and a free coffee bar will round out the fun. All...

  • 23rd annual Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast a memorable event

    Tina Fisher Cunningham, The Forde Files No 70|May 10, 2014

    Speaker Russell O'Quinn's touching address at the 23rd Annual Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast was a fitting kickoff to the May 1, 2014 National Day of Prayer. O'Quinn shared his experiences as a test pilot and aviation entrepreneur after the participants at the early-morning event enjoyed the professionally catered breakfast by Linda Pettitt and her Mill Street Kitchen crew. The breakfast, attended by civic leaders, featured readings and prayers by pastors Dr. Marvin Slifer of Mountain Bible Church,...

  • Shedding light on local issues

    Tina Fisher Cunningham, The Forde Files No 70|May 10, 2014

    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...

  • Prayer Breakfast features test pilot Russ O'Quinn

    Tina Fisher Cunningham, The Forde Files No 69|Apr 26, 2014

    The 28th Annual Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, May 1, 2014, will feature speaker Russell O’Quinn, an acclaimed test pilot and aircraft designer whose story, “Live Life to the Limit,” is a testimony to the power of a dedicated Christian life. A resident of Cummings Valley, O’Quinn fell in love with airplanes as a youngster, watching them and working as a line boy at Van Nuys Airport. He earned his pilot’s license at age 16 and his parents, who had objected to his flying, “realized...

  • City, state duke it out for RDA funds

    Tina Fisher Forde Cunningham, The Forde Files No 68|Apr 12, 2014

    The city of Tehachapi's 2013-2014 mid-year budget adjustment, showing an anticipated fund balance change of negative $1.7 million, graphically illustrates the down-and-dirty battle between the city and the state of California over Redevelopment Agency (RDA) funds. The RDA program – which enabled Tehachapi to carry out acclaimed projects like the Centennial Plaza (and enabled less conscientious cities to rip off the program, which contributed to its demise) – no longer exists, but the city and...