Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The Loop newspaper wants to hear your “life in Tehachapi” stories. Our upcoming Experience Tehachapi magazine is all about you! Share photos and a short write up (between 200-500 words) about your life in Tehachapi. It can be a favorite memory, a silly experience, or anything that tells the story of our mountain home. Send your stories and photos to [email protected] with the subject line: For Experience Tehachapi...
Two projects brought before the Tehachapi Planning Commission at their May 8 meeting were closely related to items discussed at the May 1 City Council Meeting. Waste Management received approval from Planning to build a Compressed Natural Gas Station on their property, located at 416 N. Dennison Rd. which is located at Dennison Rd. and Highway 58. The CNG system would be used for fueling the company's new natural-gas powered trucks. The project would convert existing trash hauling equipment...
Fine arts painter Donald Towns has been a Tehachapi resident for more than 20 years and still finds that nature and our local surroundings inspire his work. "Beauty is all around when you're willing to explore," says Towns. Many of us, without knowing, have seen the results of his creative influence over the years. Towns worked for many years as a background artist for Disney Studios, working on many notable films such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin," as well as...
The next Tehachapi Blood Drive with Houchin Community Blood Bank (HCBB) will be held Wednesday, May 24 between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The blood drive is also seeking donors for platelets and plasma, these types of donations take a little longer and help, burn victims and cancer patients. HCBB will joining forces with Tehachapi Vineyard Church, Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District, the Tehachapi Police Department and the City of Tehachapi once again to provide an opportunity to donate blood for our...
At Mountain Bible Church this Spring, we are going through an Eschatology sermon series. Eschatology is a theological category that deals with the doctrine of prophecy or future things to come. The basis of all Bible prophecy is the Abrahamic Covenant that God made with Abraham (Gen. 12:1-3; 15) and the enlargements of that covenant to Israel found in the Davidic Covenant (2 Sam. 7:10-16) and the New Covenant (Jer. 31:31-34). These are called covenants of promise (Eph. 2:12) in contrast with...
Ella Gove is the featured Young Artist soloist at the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra's May 21 concert. Ms. Gove is a violin student of Julia Haney, Concertmaster of the Bakersfield Symphony, and played in the All Kern County High School Honors Orchestra. She also played a Command Performance solo at CMEA in 2021 and 2023, and she won the CalASTA Solo Competition. She performed Bach in the Subways at the Amtrak Station in 2019 as an active member of Music of Bakersfield. This season she won the...
We all use devices (smartphones, tablets, or computers) that contain information we don't want strangers or thieves to access. We lock our devices with a username/password combination to protect our privacy. Since we'll be unlocking our device 5, 10, 15 and 20 times a day, we use our fingerprints, faces, passcode or PIN, or a lock screen pattern to unlock our device instead of our username/password. This security is excellent, but what if you've got bandages on your fingers, bees stung your face...
The "Adopt-A-Pole" program gives Tehachapi and its residents an opportunity to show off their pride and patriotism for America by adopting a pole that will have a U.S. flag displayed on it during the summer months and holiday decorations displayed during winter months. The City of Tehachapi has approximately 100 decorative lampposts (poles) available for adoption along Tehachapi Blvd., Green St., F St., Curry St., Robinson St., and N. Mill St. adjacent to Hwy. 58. The Adopt-A-Pole program...
Each spring the community comes together for a litter clean up day, and this year we will be asking community volunteers to help on Tuesday, May 23 at 8 a.m. The weather is now finally cooperating, and we will be able to get outside and show a little community pride. Members of the Tehachapi Area Association of Realtors (TAAR), Salvation Army, Tehachapi Mountain Group, Coldwell Banker Best Realtors, Rotary Club Interact, Girl Scouts Troop 8014, Tehachapi Cummings County Water District, the...
Healthy Hippie Trading Co. in Old Town, Tehachapi is hosting their first ever sound bath healing session taught by former Tehachapi resident, Shanan Harrell. Shanan is a decades long student and teacher of yoga and meditation. She calls herself a "Sacred Gongster" and is looking forward to sharing the healing powers of sound. Sound baths are exactly what they sound like: you are "bathed" in sound for the purpose of healing. The sounds generally come from gongs and singing bowls. Attendees get...
You know that long belt that snakes around the front of your engine? It's called the serpentine belt. The serpentine belt is driven by the engine as it turns. It powers your alternator, air conditioning compressor and power steering pump. On some vehicles it also runs the water pump, radiator fan and power brakes. Sounds like a lot of important stuff, doesn't it? If your serpentine belt were to break on one of our Tehachapi roads, your battery would die in just a short distance. If it runs your...
On blistering hot summer days my mother would call out to me and my friends languishing and complaining on our front porch, to come in and sit around our kitchen table. She would have her coffee cup filled and give us each a mug of Kool-Aid. Then she would begin telling us stories of her childhood. They were filled with country roads and a Model T Ford, her grandfather's rural mail route, asking a stranger for a drink of cold water from an old fashioned hand pump, opening a gated road with a wil...
Some daytrips just don't turn out the way I thought they would, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. A couple of Saturdays ago gas prices were down, and I woke up to a beautiful day. I decided to take a drive up to Lake Isabella to check out the water levels and stop at a couple of my favorite places along the way, specifically the Onyx Store and the Weldon bird sanctuary. But I was destined for disappointment. It started out just fine. I headed out on the 58 to Mojave, then up the 14 – which...
Much like the human body, your car relies on a series of interconnected systems working together for optimal efficiency. These systems exist in a complex environment where individual parts undergo varying degrees of stress, movement, age and failure for all kinds of reasons, causing larger breakdowns as they do so. Much like the body, this doesn't always happen overnight and it isn't always immediately noticeable. For this reason, annual car maintenance and checkups are important in much the...
The Tehachapi Farmers Market is only a few short weeks away, running every Thursday between June 1 to Aug. 15. We are asking for any businesses in the Downtown Tehachapi area that would like to offer "Farmers Market Specials" to let us know so we can put your business on our digital map, listing your special and address. Each week hundreds of people visit the Farmers Market in Downtown Tehachapi. We want to remind people to shop at local brick and mortar stores, as well. If a business offers a...
Detectives with the Tehachapi Police Department are seeking the public's assistance in identifying the male suspect pictured here. On Friday, May 5, at approximately 1:30 p.m., the suspect stole a bank bag containing cash after the victim left it on a counter at Midori Sushi. The suspect fled in a late model white sedan. The suspect was wearing a neon green construction vest and shirt, a black mask, black beanie and black pants. It is believed the suspect resides locally and conducted some form...
Food and prizes were plentiful on May 4, as members of the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and friends helped Joanne Nicks cut the ribbon for her new boutique, Cowboys and Angels, located behind Fastrip convenience store and next to Canine Creek at 798 Tucker Rd. Also helping her celebrate were representatives from the city, county and state....
On Saturday, May 6, the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and members of the community turned out to celebrate the grand reopening of Have A Heart Humane Society at their new location at 787 W. Tehachapi Blvd....
A few weeks ago, it was announced that the Oakland Athletics, "my team" since childhood (with a little San Diego Padres mixed in from my time living there), entered a binding agreement to purchase land in Las Vegas with the intention of building a new stadium and relocating to Sin City. This announced move was not surprising, for over two decades the Athletics have been trying to work with Major League Baseball, the City of Oakland, Alameda County and several other stakeholders to build new digs...
Billie W. "Bill" Cox, 80, of Tehachapi, passed away on May 1. He was born to Joe and Willie Mae Cox in Richmond, California. Bill was a 20-year Air Force retired Vietnam veteran. He was an aerial gunner with a Bronze Star, and went on to become a USAF Military Policeman. After retirement, he furthered his education at Sacramento State University where he studied history. While in the Air Force, he met his wife, LaRita. They were married for 34 years, before her passing in 2008. Bill loved...
Charles D. Westfall, 85, of Tehachapi, succumbed in his sleep to Alzheimer's disease in the early morning hours of April 19. Charles was born to Phillip Nelson Westfall and Margaret Eloise Davis in Caldwell, Idaho on Oct. 25, 1937. Left to mourn their loss are his wife, Judy Stevens; stepdaughter, Carrie Stevens (Sean); sisters, Jane Brauns (Robert) and Phylis Harris; sister-in-law, Nancy Lewis (John); and nieces and nephews, Shannon DeChaine, Stephen Sprinkel (Kathy), LeeAnn Tarling (Bryce),...
On Monday, May 1, Daisy Jean Kramer relocated to Heaven to live with Jesus and to be reunited with her husband, Charles Kramer; her parents, Lloyd, and Ola Tolle; stepmother, Loretta Tolle; brothers, Mack and Glen Tolle; sisters, Ellen Essick and Leola Tolle; and sons-in-law, John Petrie and Rudy Romero. Daisy has been looking forward to this day for many years and she thanks the Lord that He's taken her to her heavenly home. Daisy was a wonderful mother to her children and loved all her family...
As you leave the Tehachapi Valley headed east on Highway 58, you approach the Sand Canyon area. Visible to your left, on the north side of the freeway before you get to the Sand Canyon exit, a large boulder sits all by itself. This oddly-placed stone did not tumble down from the hills above, and it wasn't left there by a glacier. Boulders can be carried hundreds of miles by glaciers, and when the glaciers finally melt, these stones, known as glacial erratics, are stranded far from the bedrock...
Spring can arrive slowly and leave quickly in the mountains of Southern California, so it's nice to have a variety of spring-blooming bulbs, shrubs and perennials to help celebrate this all-too-brief season. One ornamental shrub that likes Tehachapi and lights up in spring is Forsythia, a graceful plant that is covered with yellow blossoms when longer days trigger the onset of blooming. Forsythias are primarily native to Asia and were imported to England and Europe to the delight of Western...
The Tehachapi Symphony, directed by Dr. David Newby, will perform on Sunday, May 21. The concert begins at 4 p.m. at Country Oaks Baptist Church, located at 20915 Schout Rd., Tehachapi. This year's Young Artist Competition winner, Ella Gove, will perform Dvorak's "Romance for Violin and Orchestra." Gove is primarily a dancer and was featured with the Bakersfield Ballet in their production of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker." Schumann's Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, and Franz Schubert's Symphony...
