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"The southern Sierra, the Tehachapis, the Coast Ranges, and the Mojave Desert all come together in...

"Hire slowly, fire quickly." – Employment Advice...

The sight of Common Ravens harassing and chasing a Red-tailed Hawk, or songbirds in turn pestering...

One of the most interesting of our local habitats to explore and to experience the outdoors is also...

The Tehachapi Mountains have at least some snow every winter, but you can make sure that your yard...

A fine and memorable man left the Tehachapi Valley recently with the loss of Ronald Wayne Depew,...

One of the hardiest and most ornamental vines you can plant in the Tehachapi Mountains is Virginia...

Now that our season has transitioned from summer into autumn, there is a subtle but definite...

If you've glanced up in the skies over Tehachapi in the past month or so, you might have seen lots...

The Butterfly Bush is a great shrub for the Tehachapi area, and true to their name, they really do...

One of the oldest still extant creatures on Earth is the intimidating-looking scorpion, those...

Humans tend to rely most heavily on our sense of vision to navigate and experience our surroundings,...

The Tehachapi Mountains are blessed with scenic landscapes, picturesque wildlife, interesting...

“The people of this part of the county are very hopeful and appear to be alive to the prosperous f...

"Have fun, Wini, and don't dig up anything you wouldn't be proud to bring home." – Joan Johnson J...

"Each evening, I would take all of the money we had made that day at the Monolith Store, and I...

“Your vocabulary is mean and impoverished, but entirely adequate to express your thoughts.” – Engli...

"I used to break horses for Joe Mendiburu, he'd gather horses from the desert and I'd get 'em...

"Look, my fave-rett – a booful purple fala!" – Kaylee Lambert Kaylee said this when she was thr...

“I don’t know if I would have survived some of the things I’ve been through in my life if I didn...

There is a species of gentle snake found throughout the Tehachapi Mountains, a familiar reptile...

Hollyhocks are one of the few ornamental flowers that naturalize so well in the Tehachapi Mountains...

Tehachapi has a long history of having outside dances in the Downtown area, and that tradition is go...

There are two events that have occurred every August for many decades in Tehachapi. One is the annua...

It is now High Summer in the Tehachapi Mountains. After a very cool spring and early summer, high te...