Tehachapi News

A hotly contested "wind map" under consideration by the Kern County Board of Supervisors was sent back to the planning department last week following a public hearing at which 34 people spoke, many among them Tehachapi residents.

Ann Klein treats the abcessed hoof of Espinosa, one of the rescued horses being housed in Brite Valley as Girl Scouts Maile Pryor and Paige Parker help out.

Chris Kirk has romantic plans for Valentine's Day- Taking his wife Mandi to the Thai restaurant they enjoyed while they were dating.

The sign at the Minute Serve Dairy on Highway 202 says it all as Tehachapi experiences a very dry winter.

California is probably one of the most environmentally progressive states in the U.S. It is also the country's most populous state and according to LA Times , the state now derives 5A percent of its total electricity needs from wind energy .

The Tehachapi Police Department for the week of January 30 to February 6 reported only one feloney arrest.

Thirty-five teams of local high school student videographers will battle Friday and Saturday at East High in a deadline-pressure video contest.

Henry A. Barrios / The Californian Tehachapi residents and visitors will have an opportunity to meet Wesley Barrientos, left, and Jeremy Staat when they make an overnight stop on Feb.

A Tehachapi continuation school was one of 25 campuses named Monday as a 2012 Model Continuation High School by the California Department of Education.

But it's been made far worse by nagging doubts that his rescuers may not have done everything in their power to at least try to bring him out of the woods alive.

As part of its agreement with the Office for Civil Rights, the Tehachapi Unified School District established a new system to track cases and investigations of bullying and harassment at its campuses.

Sept. 27, 2010 : Seth Walsh dies following a suicide attempt days earlier. In a suicide note, he tells mother Wendy Walsh to "make sure to make the school feel like for bringing you this sorrow." Oct.

In 2009, the district instituted sexual-harassment policy changes to resolve a federal complaint brought by parents who claimed a teacher sexually harassed their daughter.

The downtown "First Friday", Art Walk is Feb. 3, from 5 to 8 p.m. A number of downtown shops and restaurants will be open for your shopping and browsing pleasure.

Kelly Molloy-McDaniel is pictured with one of five of the rescued horses on her Spit Creek Ranch in the Cummings Valley.

Three people arrived home from dinner Wednesday night to find their Tehachapi home on fire, Kern County Fire Department officials said.

California is the nation's most populous state, which helps make this landmark even more impressive: According to the LA Times , "Wind energy now supplies about 5% of California's total electricity needs, or enough to power more than 400,000 households." That's big news.

In November, the Board of Supervisors asked the Kern County Planning Department to come up with a plan that would essentially protect certain rural areas from massive wind projects.

More than a year of pent-up frustration hit county supervisors with a roar Tuesday as a small army of wind energy opponents attacked county-drawn maps that would outline where industrial wind energy projects can and cannot be developed.

The City of Tehachapi will have a new website design reflecting its recent branding following approval of an expenditure of $8,278 during the Jan 17 City Council meeting.