Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Kris and Randy Gruben moved to Tehachapi from Mission Viejo primarily to be near family. Their son, Josh, recently moved here with his family and I had“welcomed” them in April. The Grubens brought with them a very large white Labradoodle appropriately named “Mr. Big” who greeted me at the front gate, escorted me into the house and was then ushered back to the yard. The couple had lived in Orange County for ten years but now is looking forward to the changing seasons and the beauty of the mou...
I’d never have written this piece except for a lady who wrote a news article printed in the Bakersfield Californian. She decided to tell the reading public that the book, The Grapes of Wrath, was completely exaggerated. Her main objection was that it was being used as required reading in high school classes and was inaccurately portraying a period in American history. I don’t know if it was an exaggeration; I never read the book, written in 1939. I know it was fiction with a historical bas...
TEHACHAPI, CA – In 2012, the City of Tehachapi introduced a sponsorship program that allowed businesses, organizations, families or individuals to sponsor an American flag in downtown Tehachapi. The sponsorship program, known as the "Adopt-A-Flag" program, gives Tehachapi and its residents an opportunity to show off their pride and patriotism for America. The City has approximately 100 decorative light posts on Tehachapi Boulevard, Green Street, "F" Street, Curry, Robinson, and the Mill S...
To celebrate National Museum Day, the Tehachapi Heritage League is sponsoring "Kid's Day at the Museum." This free event will be held on May 17 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Tehachapi Museum and the Errea House Museum at 300 S. Green St. All the Tehachapi Museums will be open so that area children can learn about Tehachapi's history and see historical items from the past. Activities for children of all ages will be ongoing with prizes awarded for various contests. Many service groups will be on...
Engineers designing the California High-Speed Rail (HSR) must move mountains – and people, houses, roads, orchards and maybe a corral or two. Farmers and residents at ground zero in the first segment of the first HSR track to be under construction – a 29-mile stretch from Madera to Fresno – are faced with the reality that they are expected to get out of the way. In spite of funding difficulties and vociferous opposition to the project, it appears the train has left the depot. The next const...
15 acres at the corner of Red Apple Ave. and Tucker Road The commercial corridor of Tucker Road has come 119,651 square feet closer to build-out. The Tehachapi City Council on Mar. 3 approved an agreement with Curtis Zacuto, principal of Westlake Village-based EcoTierra Consulting, to produce an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on a new shopping center called the Red Apple Pavilion. Located on the west side of Tucker on Red Apple Ave. (the western extension of Tehachapi Boulevard), the...
The wines chosen for the Main Street Feb. 15 Valentine's Wine and Chocolate tasting may be familiar to many of those attending but there are some lesser known vineyards represented, along with local wine makers. The familiar taste of cabs, chardonnays, sparkling wines, and other varietals come from domestic as well as foreign wine producers and have been chosen with an eye to affordable selections. The selection of wines also includes some you may not have tasted, but whose names you may recogni...
One of Downtown Tehachapi's favorite events is coming up next month. Main Street Tehachapi has scheduled the Eighth Annual Valentines Wine Walk and Chocolate Tasting for Feb. 15. It's the perfect time to join friends and sweethearts on the most romantic day of the year for a stroll around downtown and a fun evening of wine tasting, paired with chocolates. The glass pickup point for wine glasses and ten tasting tickets will be at The Tehachapi Depot at Tehachapi Boulevard and Green Street....
(I wrote an account of the 1932 flood over thirty years ago for the Tehachapi News. I was lucky to find someone who had been in Keene when the waters washed people, houses and even buried a Santa Fe Engine as well as washed a Southern Pacific engine off the tracks. I carefully kept notes after talking to Walter Hicks, who was in Keene during the whole thing. I have not added anything to enhance the story; only the facts told me at that time by Walter Hicks, Laura Ramos, Bob Freeman, Bud...
