Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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At their August 16 meeting, the Tehachapi City Council gave their approval to the Final Master Development Plan for the Sage Ranch Community to be built on 138 acres between Valley Blvd. and Pinon St. next to Tehachapi High School. The approval included the CEQA EIR, the Planned Development Zoning and the Tentative Tract Map. As Christina Scrivner recused herself, the final vote was 4-0. The community will consist of 995 single-family and multi-family residential units and include recreational...
This notice is to announce a vacancy on the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District Board of Directors. The district is taking applications to fill the seat of Sam Conklin, MD, which became vacant on August 17, 2021. The successful applicant will serve in this position until the next general District election. Interested candidates who are registered to vote within the District and are not an employee, official of the District, vendor, contractor or consultant of the District, or any spouse, sibling, son, daughter or parent of such person are...
Valley Strong Credit Union is excited to announce the relocation of our Tehachapi Branch, located at 1002 W. Tehachapi Blvd. The new branch is a full-service facility, offering traditional banking, mobile and online banking assistance, along with drive-up teller services and ATM, and more! This location is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The facility also has a 24-hour walk-up and drive-up ATM. About Valley...
• There are 442 newly reported confirmed cases in Kern County, bringing our total confirmed cases to date to 121,299. • There are no new deaths being reported today, August 24, but there have been 1,448 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic. • The 14-day case rate is 32.35 per 100,000. • As of August 22, 707,955 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to Kern County residents. 336,455 or 44.6% of Kern’s eligible population have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. • As of August 23, Kern County had 236 COVID-19 re...
Zack Scrivner, Supervisor District 2 of Kern County recently spoke to Tehachapi's Rotary Club. He began by updating those present on the latest issues surrounding oil extraction processes, policies and controversies in the state of California. He went into some detail about how important the oil industry is in helping poor and uneducated people gain a foothold at the entry level and rise to middle class income levels, a possibility that was freely available to past generations of Americans but...
Misty and Kevin Caudle, pastors of the Christian Life Assembly Church on Valley Blvd. in Tehachapi, were the guest speakers at the first Rotary meeting in the month of August. They both grew up in Tehachapi and have a strong desire to serve this community. Kevin explained that a few years ago he attended a City Council meeting and was dismayed to discover that, as the council members discussed organizations to approach for help with various community needs and projects, not one church was brought up or suggested. Kevin left that meeting...
The Tehachapi Area Association of Realtors recently recognized City of Tehachapi Economic Development Coordinator Corey Costelloe as the 2020 Affiliate of the Year at their annual installation event on Friday, Aug. 6 at Dorner Family Vineyard. "The Tehachapi Area Association of Realtors was proud to present Corey Costello the 2020 TAAR Affiliate of the Year Award for his tireless dedication to our association and to property owners and citizens of the Greater Tehachapi area. In a COVID stricken...
The City of Tehachapi Planning Commission approved the site plan for a new 2,400-square-foot Chipotle Mexican Grill at their Aug. 9 meeting. The new restaurant will be located in the Tehachapi Junction center near Starbucks at the corner of Tucker Road and Tehachapi Blvd. Although it will feature a drive thru, orders will need to be placed in advance with customers notified that their order is ready before entry into the drive thru is allowed. The restaurant has also agreed to add additional...
Larry Elder loved his visit to Tehachapi on August 4. "Those are my kind of people!" From the start, the theme was clear: People are hungry for leadership in California; we've got a state to save! Larry Elder is one of 46 candidates running for Governor in the upcoming recall election. Larry Elder is polling number one. Elder, a native Californian, promised the crowd to immediately act on solving the many issues facing California today including antiquated water systems, school choice, rising cr...
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...
Season 2, Episode 89, the topic is wastewater in the city of Tehachapi. When you flush where does the water go? TehachaPod invited Don Marsh Tehachapi's Public Works Director and Deputy Director Tyler Napier into the studio to talk about wastewater and how our sewer system works. With some 45 miles of sewer system within the city limits there is a lot of wastewater that must be treated. Don and Tyler explain the processes the wastewater goes through and what happens to it after it has been...
A State Public Health Officer Order was issued today that requires verification of vaccination status among public and private K-12 school workers. Unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated school workers are required to undergo diagnostic screening testing weekly. The new State Public Health Officer Order can be found in its entirety here: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-of-the-State-Public-Health-Officer-Vaccine-Verification-for-Workers-in-Schools.aspx. Today’s, August 8 Order follows several other recent State-issued P...
New Lehigh head introduced Past Lehigh plant manager Craig Mifflin came back to Tehachapi from his new home in Carlsbad, California to introduce the Tehachapi City Council to Lehigh’s new plant manager Blaise Moran. During the July 19 meeting Mifflin explained that the Lehigh Cement Plant has been sold with escrow to close around Sept. 1. Martin Marietta Inc., a completely U.S. owned corporation located primarily in the eastern part of the country, paid $22.3 billion for Lehigh, thus e...
Sheriff Donny Youngblood announced the tragic death of Deputy Phillip Campas during the standoff in Wasco on July 25. Assemblyman Vince Fong (R-Kern County) offers his condolences to the Deputy’s family, the victims’ loved-ones and the law enforcement community in the following statement: “Words cannot adequately express the tremendous grief our community feels. This is a difficult time for everyone involved. “We are grieving the tragic loss of a courageous deputy sheriff, and the victims...
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]....
In Season 2, Episode 88 of TehachaPod we talk with Jay Schlosser, the Development Services director. We have a conversation about the new business and residential developments coming to Tehachapi in the coming months. Jay talks in detail about two new eateries coming to the corner of Tehachapi Blvd. and Tucker Road, one is Roundtable Pizza and the other is Chipotle Mexican Grill, which will be built on the vacant pad you see as you exit Starbucks drive thru. Also, the Valley Strong Credit Union...
On July 28 the TVRPD Board of Directors held a Special Meeting to award the bid for the construction and installation of the Modular Steel Skate park located at West Park. We are pleased to announce the bid was awarded to American Ramp Company, a decorated company with a footprint of incredible skateparks all around the United States. For those unaware, this project is made possible by available non-competitive grant funds through the State of California's Parks and Water Bond Act of 2018...
On Tuesday, July 27, Houchin Community Blood Bank (HCBB) joined forces with the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Parks District (TVRPD) and the City of Tehachapi on the fifth Tehachapi-wide blood drive of 2021 for these three organizations. The drive collected 37 units of blood and had four first-time donors! More than 200 people have donated blood (potentially saving up to 600 lives) this year at the five Tehachapi drives in 2021. "It just makes me so proud of everyone who gives of their time to...
The Rotary Club of Tehachapi recently welcomed Lewis Brown as their guest speaker when they met for their weekly gathering of food and fellowship. Brown, now retired, has had a rich and varied professional life, which included serving in the Air Force as a firefighter stationed in Roswell, New Mexico. In 1971, he bought land in Stallion Springs and moved there in 2009. He currently sits on the board of the Tehachapi Community Theater and has been the board president of the Tehachapi Senior...
The Kern County Superintendent of Schools office and all of Kern County’s 47 public school districts are announcing their policy for providing free and reduced-price meals for children served under the National School Lunch Program and/or School Breakfast Program. Each school and/or the district/agency’s central office has a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed by any interested party upon request. Meal applications will be sent to all households with a letter informing parents or gua...
At the July 13 meeting of the TUSD School Board, Superintendent Stacey Larson-Everson announced that only three days after the District announced that they would reopen the schools in August under the COVID guidelines of the CDC (Center for Disease Control), the plan was superseded by new guidelines issued on July 12 by the CDPH (California Department of Public Health). Under the CDC guidelines, masks would be worn indoors only for those not vaccinated. The CDPH now says that masks will be worn...
On July 12, in a nearly three hour meeting, the Tehachapi Planning Commission heard a presentation of the final master plan for the proposed Sage Ranch development from Development Services Director Jay Schlosser, who tried to keep it as short and complete as possible. The Sage Ranch project consists of 995 single family and multi-family residential units to be constructed on 138 acres on Valley Blvd. near Tehachapi High School. Schlosser said that the project is to be completed in nine phases...
Record attendance at 4th of July events highlights economic recovery for Tehachapi The City of Tehachapi experienced the largest All-American 4th of July Festival since the inception of the event two decades ago. The first major event to be conducted post-COVID-19 restrictions was met with overwhelming crowds at Philip Marx Central Park. A welcome sight for vendors, non-profits, and entertainers. The variety of food vendors experienced heavy customer traffic throughout the day up until the...
The TehachaPod podcast from the City of Tehachapi has been having conversations with interesting people involved in our community in many ways. In season 2, episode 83, "Adoption, Foster Care and All things Human Services," we talk to Jana Slagle from the Kern County Department of Human Services (KCDHS). Slagle told the hosts, Greg Garrett, Corey Costelloe and Key Budge, about how the Department of Human Services hosts so many programs for the community that they wouldn't get to all of them in...
In Season 2, Episode 85, TehachaPod dives into Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) events in a conversation with Southern California Edison (SCE) representatives and gets answers from questions from the greater Tehachapi community. The PSPS season usually begins in October and runs into January due to the weather conditions. They discuss what weather conditions must be met to turn off power and if the grid hardening changes any of those circumstances. SCE's Director of Expedited Grid Hardening...
