Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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In 2022, Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced plans to allocate nearly $8.7 million for park improvements throughout his district. Funding for the improvements at eight county parks in District 2 will come from several sources. Recently, the County secured $3,023,637 from the Clean California Grant administered by the Department of Transportation for Mojave East Park. The County Administrative Office has also budgeted $1,000,000 from the County's allocation of federal American Recovery...
Kern County operates and maintains over 5,000 acres of community and regional parks located across our 8,000 square miles. Each of these parks are unique in size, scope, function, location, geography, amenities and utilization. Our parks range from small neighborhood spaces to massive regional recreational areas, such as Buena Vista, Hart Memorial and Tehachapi Mountain Parks. Each one of them is as important as the next. Together, they are a bell-weather of community well-being, quality of...
Kern County's Second District Supervisor, Zack Scrivner, announced plans this week to allocate nearly $8.7 million for park improvements and maintenance throughout his district, which stretches from Boron on the edge of Eastern Kern to Taft and Frazier Park near the county's western boundary. Funding for the improvements at eight county parks in District 2 will come from several different sources. Recently, the county secured $3,023,637 from the Clean California Grant administered by the...
Artist Jedd Strange of Rosamond has put the finishing touches on a nearly block-long mural in Mojave that celebrates modes of transportation in that crossroads community. Painted in colorful acrylic, the artwork covers the north-facing exterior wall of Mission Bank on Panamint Street. The mural, moving from sunrise over the desert on the east end to sunset behind the mountains on the west end, features a mule team hauling a water wagon, the Southern Pacific Dayliner train, a diesel truck, a Huey...
Supervisor Zack Scrivner is pleased to announce that the RENEWBIZ program will be awarding $380,000 in grants to East Kern community businesses. A total of 46 grants were awarded to 15 businesses in Boron, 14 in Mojave, 11 in Rosamond and six in Tehachapi. The RENEWBIZ program begins with county seed money, but continues with matching efforts of the business owners and community leaders who work together to improve and beautify the business environment, clean-up the community and attract new...
California City planners are reviewing 60 building permits submitted by medical marijuana growers who seek to build hydroponic facilities in the city "We want to get away from special taxes," Cal City Mayor Jennifer Wood said at the Mar. 9 meeting of the East Kern Economic Alliance at the Mojave Air and Space Port. "If this industry does it for us, that's it." She said that city personnel have researched the marijuana growing industry and visited facilities, and that city planners have been...
Beware scams – Evil people use “social engineering” to scam you. At the Feb. 1 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council, Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce President Ida Perkins distributed a reprint from the Security Awareness Newsletter by James Lyne that explains how scammers fool people. “Cyber attackers have learned that often the easiest way to steal your information, hack your accounts or infect your systems is by simply tricking you into making a mistake...
By the end of 2015, an old technology coupled with new environmental safeguards will begin to yield up gold and silver that is locked within ancient veins slicing through Soledad Mountain near Mojave. The mountain -- adjacent to Hwy. 14 and looking like a nondescript rocky lump of desert -- has been mined by individuals and companies for a hundred years, but never on such a scale. The Golden Queen Mining Co., LLC, a British Columbia-based company under the leadership of President, CEO and...
Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced today the total amount of dollars granted to Eastern Kern businesses in 2015 through the RENEWBIZ program. RENEWBIZ is a community revitalization program, created by Scrivner and the Kern County Board of Supervisors in 2012, that offers $5,000-$10,000 grants to businesses in unincorporated Eastern Kern, with a local match from the business of 10% of the total grant. The money from the grants funds the refurbishment of the exterior of businesses...
7 saw no shortage of challenges facing the County. Below are some updates on many important issues that came before the Board of Supervisors in 2014: Kern Medical Center The new management team hired by the Board of Supervisors to turn around Kern Medical Center has steadily brought the hospital back toward profitability while staying true to KMC’s core mission of providing quality health care to all who need it. KMC’s in come in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2014-15 came in $3.5 mil...
Applications for the second round of grants to help revitalize the unincorporated East Kern County communities of Mojave, Boron, Rosamond and Old Town Tehachapi are available now and will be awarded in November. A total of $250,000 in grant money will be disbursed this year for façade improvements, signs, painting, landscaping, awnings, fencing, windows and more. With a growing sense of ownership and pride, residents of the those communities have worked with the Kern County Department of...
Nearly 30 members of the Old Town Association Steering Committee met and voted to change the name of the revitalized Merchants Association to be all encompassing and held the election of their new officers for the remainder of 2014-15 fiscal year. Donna Fischman will serve as President, with Ron Depew as Vice President; Jay Prisco will serve as Secretary; Carol Lawhon as Treasurer; and Ron Fishgold as Member-at-Large. About a dozen members present took applications for grants offered up by Kern...
For the past several years, the County has adopted our final budget in August, after the County accounts for all of its "carryover" funds (monies left over from the previous fiscal year), and more accurate projections on property tax revenue are completed. This has allowed the Board of Supervisors to make budgetary decisions with the most complete and accurate financial information. In prior months, all County departments were asked to prepare their budget requests for Fiscal Year 2014-15 with...
After the follow-up meeting with the Kern County planners and their "Vision" unveiling that set goals for both the county and the community, the Steering Committee for the revitalization of the Old Town Merchants Association is planning to come up with solutions for a "hit list" of their Top Ten Issues. Marilyn White, one of the early contacts for the effort, explains, "It's part of the answer to the question of 'where do we go from here' – the next step." Donna Fischman, who is opening a new b...
