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X-15 record still stands

Column time – what to write, what subject? My bi-weekly dilemma as I dig through my mother Marion D...

 

Mojave Volunteer Fire Department

I get busy with my duties as the Mayor Pro Tem of Tehachapi and with everyday life and the next thin...

 

Global Leadership Summit a winner

"As a leader, develop a grander vision for your workplace than just success." This week I am taking...

 

Gossip Rock

I have a confession to make. Either I am getting old(er) or I have been writing this column way too...

 

Mojave's Poole Building

This is the third and probably the last of the historical collaborations between my brother Bill...

 

GAVEA in Mojave

The Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance held its quarterly meeting in Mojave recently so its m...

 

No shooting - or not

Gun control – or not – has been a topic for the ages. In the late 1960s the East Kern area of the Mo...

 

Nothing new under the sun

“The more things change, the more they remain the same…” There are all sorts of sayings that confi...

 

Rosamond schools, education in 1955

In 1955 the Southern Kern County Union School District proudly announced that it had completed...

 

The desert, the new frontier in 1956

I found an article of my mom, Marion Deaver that she wrote in 1956. I know that because she...

 

Oroville Dam and East Kern

When everything about the Oroville Dam and Lake in Northern California started to go to “hell in a...

 

Me and the Mule

I was searching through my mother Marion Deaver’s files, trying to find something to write about. T...

 

'Be Kind' initiative

This time I am straying from my mother Marion Deaver's history articles to explain something I have...

 

Birth of a dream

You all know the drill –I scrounge through my mom Marion Deaver's stuff and I find something of h...

 

Native Americans of East Kern

My mother Marion Deaver loved being a member of the Kern Antelope Historical Society and she made...

 

East Kern weather

Fall has arrived in all of Eastern Kern and of course Tehachapi, where the morning temperatures are...

 

Rosamond history

I found a file marked Rosamond history that was marked in my mother Marion Deaver’s handwriting and...

 

From the Mayor

As most of you have noticed, it’s election season, which is hard to avoid unless you live on a d...

 

Railroad memories

Those of you who read my column know I almost always write a piece from my Mother Marion Deaver's...

 

Cantil Sewage Dump?

I found a file belonging to my mother Marion Deaver about a story that I had never seen or heard of...

 

Rosamond Review – Part 2

In my last column I discussed the news reported in a Rosamond Review from 1959 that I found in my...

 

Rosamond Review

This week I decided to write about Rosamond and I found a Progress Edition from the 1959 Rosamond...

 

Tehachapi Water Woes – 1968

I found an article my mother Marion Deaver written about water in Tehachapi in 1968 and which was...

 

Mojave Unified Fire Insurance

I find the strangest things when going through my mother Marion Deaver’s files. This week I found a...

 

Tehachapi's Seed Crop

This week I found an article in a 1957 copy of the Tehachapi News that had reprinted an article from the Fresno Bee in my mom’s files. The article w...

 

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