Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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"Anything north of the 210 freeway is Northern California." – Cal Fire Captain While in town to fight a massive wildfire in Blackburn Canyon, a Cal Fire crew went into a restaurant on Tehachapi Boulevard to eat and said to their server, Megan, that, "This is our first time here – we're from Southern California." When she replied that Tehachapi IS in Southern California, this was his response....
Did you know there are about 20 different species of wild cats that can be found in Kern County? Only two of them, mountain lions and bobcats, are native to this area, but you can see these two as well as snow leopards, fishing cats, jaguars, servals, caracals, ocelots, Canada lynx, margays, jaguarundis and more in a shady oasis only 30 miles from Tehachapi at Rosamond's Feline Conservation Center. Kern County holds many surprises, and one of them is this remarkable sanctuary, formerly known as...
Planning Commission approves Chipotle on Tucker Road The City of Tehachapi Planning Commission unanimously approved the proposed Chipotle Mexican Grill that recently applied to develop at the Tehachapi Junction center on the corner of Tehachapi Boulevard and Tucker Road. The proposal includes a 2,400-square-foot restaurant with a drive thru window that will also have some outdoor dining and other improvements to the site adjacent to Starbucks and sitting just below Panda Express. Like its...
Peachy Dental offered free dental services to our community on July 30. Prizes and fun for the kids were provided. The services we offered on July 30 were limited examinations and X-rays; dental cleanings; extractions; opening and medicating infected teeth; children’s checkups and cleanings. Peachy Dental is located at 19737 Valley Boulevard, Tehachapi, we can be reached at (661) 823-7644 or [email protected]....
Customers, visitors, tourists returning to Tehachapi The first six months of 2021 have shown an increase in traffic once again to the City of Tehachapi. According to City partner Placer AI, there have been an estimated 168,000 additional customers to the city limits compared to this same period from a year ago. Of those customers, many have returned on multiple occasions as well, showing a recovery of sorts from the pandemic-restricted movement in 2020. This is a promising trend for local...
The Tehachapi Heritage League has received permission to open the doors of the Museum and Errea House on Saturday, June 19 from noon to 4 p.m. What a great day that will be. Another great day exists in Tehachapi history: That being, July 4, 1977; the anniversary of the birth of our nation, as well as the grand opening of the first Tehachapi Heritage League Museum. The first location of the museum was in the 200 block of "downtown" Tehachapi in the old Chamber of Commerce building. The new...
One of my earlier memories from the 1930s was Tehachapi's 4th of July free barbecue! It was taken for granted that everyone would be in the City Park and have a wonderful meal that included beef prepared in deep-pit style cooking where the meat is slow cooked for 24 hours in an underground pit. Word spreads fast when the term "free" is included and people from near and far came; some as far as Los Angeles. Our small community, in the 1930s, had a population of a scant 1,000 souls, including the...
The City of Tehachapi announces the return of the Adopt-A-Flag Program allowing 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 Street, Robinson Street and the Mill Street...
Long time Tehachapi massage therapist Molly Sherman has announced that she has moved her practice to Bee Good to Yourself Essential Oils Training Center located at 104 S. Robinson Street in downtown Tehachapi. Bee Good is owned and operated by Mindy Martindale, a wellness advocate with dōTerra Essential Oils International. The two women have known each other for several years as both were members of Tehachapi Mountain Valley Professionals, a local business organization. The compatibility of...
Another wave of Tehachapi schoolchildren returned to Tehachapi Unified School District (TUSD) campuses on April 12 in scaled-down, phased-in classes and schedules designed to minimize COVID-19 exposure. The students are divided into two groups – A and B – that attend in-person instruction on separate days, therefore, half the district's students are engaged in in-person instruction at the same time. "Those groups don't mix," TUSD Superintendent Stacey Larson-Everson said at the April 13 TUS...
Tehachapi Development Services Director Jay Schlosser presented three road projects for a vote at the April 19 City Council meeting. Every year the City of Tehachapi receives an allocation from the SB1 Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Gas Tax) amounting to about $270,000. Schlosser presented a list of 45 streets within three residential areas to receive new surface treatments for 2021. Although the streets within these neighborhoods are currently in relatively good shape, the seal...
Guardians Around The Earth (GATE) invites you to get outside and help beautify Tehachapi for Earth Day by gathering litter during our Tehachapi Cleanup event on Monday, April 19 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Volunteers meet at 9:30 a.m. (after school joiners meet at 1 p.m.) in the lot at corner of Dennison Road and Tehachapi Boulevard (next to Gracian's Grill). Tehachapi Cleanup mobilizes volunteers to remove litter along Tehachapi Boulevard from Dennison to Tehachapi-Willow Springs Roads. Water an...
Guardians Around The Earth (GATE) invites you to get outside and help beautify Tehachapi for Earth Day by gathering litter during our Tehachapi Cleanup event on Monday, April 19 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Volunteers meet at 9:30 a.m. (*after-school joiners meet at 1 p.m.*) in the lot at the corner of Dennison Road and Tehachapi Boulevard (next to Gracian's Grill). Tehachapi Cleanup mobilizes volunteers to remove litter along Tehachapi Boulevard from Dennison to Tehachapi-Willow Springs Roads. Wa...
Spring is near and Guardians Around The Earth (GATE) invites you to get outside and help beautify Tehachapi for Earth Day by gathering litter during our Tehachapi Cleanup event on Monday, April 19, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Volunteers meet at 9:30 a.m. in the lot at the corner of Dennison Road and Tehachapi Boulevard (next to Gracian’s Grill). Tehachapi Cleanup mobilizes volunteers to remove litter along Tehachapi Boulevard from Dennison to Tehachapi-Willow Springs Roads. Water and clean up gear such as safety vests, trash bags and gloves w...
In a memo to parents attempting to distance themselves from a recent "Let Them Play" rally, the Tehachapi Unified School District made what appeared to be an innocent typo, claiming the gathering at "Cory(sic) Burnett Field" was not sanctioned by the District in the officially released document. Of course, most of us know the home field of the Tehachapi Warriors is "Coy Burnett Field," minus the extra "r" inserted by the president of the school board who in haste autographed the memo without...
4 Economic Development quick recap Despite the challenges in 2020 presented by COVID-19, the City of Tehachapi continued to see small, medium and large business investments as economic development efforts continued. The City of Tehachapi saw $6 million in new commercial permits and commercial improvements/renovations in 2020. This included a new Panda Express Restaurant as well as remodels to four additional new restaurants that opened in previously vacated spaces in 2020. Those were Tacos El...
Valley Strong Credit Union (“Valley Strong”) is excited to announce construction has begun on its new full-service Tehachapi Branch, located at 1002 West Tehachapi Boulevard in the Walmart Shopping Center. This new location will replace the current express branch on Tucker Road, allowing Valley Strong to offer additional services to Tehachapi and the surrounding communities. The branch will be a 2,600 square-foot full-service facility, offering traditional banking, mobile and online banking ass...
Deco Du Jour opens Tehachapi store Gina Dumania has lived in Tehachapi just shy of a year after relocating from Southern California last January. Upon getting acquainted with the community, she recognized a lack of offerings in an area she happens to specialize in, furniture and home furnishings. Gina, her mother Dorothy Dumania and Shawn Bineau decided to come together and partner in Deco Du Jour, a retail store offering popular styles from Los Angeles showrooms, including farmhouse rustic,...
With the cancellation of the usual Halloween events, Tehachapi business owners came through for trick or treaters young and old on Halloween evening. The brainchild of Michele Borquez, owner of Go2Girlz, a Halloween Candy Walk modeled after the Main Street Wine Walks and Ugly Sweater Walks, was conceived and several other businesses on Tehachapi Boulevard and adjoining streets jumped on board. At last count, over 20 small businesses elected to stay open from 5 to 8 p.m. Halloween evening to...
Restaurants in the city of Tehachapi have sprouted umbrellas and outdoor seating on city sidewalks and parking lots in response to closure of interior seating due to COVID-19. "As long as it's safe, we are allowing outdoor dining on closed sidewalks and in private parking lots," Tehachapi Economic Development Coordinator and Assistant to the City Manager Corey Costelloe said at the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi July 22 meeting. "We waived outdoor dining permits. We waived rules about banners at...
There aren't many Tehachapi residents left who remember the days when almost every phone call made in this area required a person working at a switchboard, an operator who manually put a plug into a jack to complete a call. Pat Gracey, 91, not only remembers that time, she actually was one of those hard-working women who made phone calls possible. Patricia Davis Gracey was born in Mojave on September 2, 1928, the youngest of four children born to Chauncey and Maude Davis. She was raised in...
TK Pizza expands again, adds outdoor patio There has not been a shortage of investments from the owners of TK Pizza & Pasta, the local Tehachapi favorite since the business was purchased by Tyler and Wesley Shryock in 2013. Located at 640 W. Tehachapi Boulevard adjacent to the former Kmart building, the investments continue, despite the anchor tenant closing up shop a few months ago. Since taking ownership of the business in 2013, the Shryocks have transformed the once-struggling Tehachapi...
There's a group of regulars who come into Kelcy's twice a day at about 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. I call them the "Board of Directors." It started with Boyd Lehman and Harold Rouse in 1961 or 1962, when it was still Trusty's Cafe. Then they started bringing in Chet Gilbertson, who owned The Rock Shop on Tehachapi Boulevard. Over cups of coffee, they'd discuss Tehachapi history, politics, their families and news of the day. And the group grew over the years. It's good to see them all. They're good friends...
At about 10 a.m. on April 13, 1992, a backhoe operator working on the City of Tehachapi's new sewer line on Dennison Road accidently tore through a telephone trunk line, cutting phone service for every single resident of the Ashe Village (formerly known as Ashe Tract) neighborhood north of the railroad tracks. Pacific Bell construction splicers Lonnie Latham, Mike Mattucci, Charlie Lunn and Jimmy Womack were dispatched to fix the massive problem, and arrived at the site at about noon to...
“Louie Boden was a lawman in Tehachapi for 36 years, from 1915 until his death in 1951. He relied on his physical strength and popularity alone. He was our constable and he was a big, barrel-chested man. He was really strong, but he was kind-hearted and everyone loved him – he was probably one of the most popular men in town. He often chewed on a cigar as he made his rounds. “He was once called to break up a fight between two Marines at a bar on Tehachapi Boulevard, near where Kelcy’s is now....
