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We are happy to celebrate our country's birthday and we do a fine job on July 4th in saluting the...

Few would elect to be in a major disaster, but if you've experienced one, there is a kinship with...

Mt. Soledad, a mauve colored sentinel, whose pock marked sides show the effects of many years of...

People tell me that they like to hear some of my husband’s old Marine Corps tales. I always...

There used to be a radio program whose host gave news as it was supposed to have happened. After...

Arriving in Tehachapi in mid-December for his duties as pastor of Saint Malachy Catholic Church,...

Isabel Cortez Cervantes was a well known and respected citizen of this community until her death in...

A trip down hill from the Tehachapi Mountains, in the early days by wagon or buggy, was something...

While doing some research at Beale Library back in 1987, a mere 27 years ago, I could not resist...

In 1933, during one of the worst periods of the great depression, my parents found themselves...

One always wonders how mountains get their names. As a child we called Black Mountain the "Indian...

Once in a while I like to include one of my husband’s “Tales of the Old Corps.” This one is...

I have often written about My Pet Tree in the backyard of my home. I had grown it from a tiny...

On January 15, 1918, a cold, winter day in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Kathryn Pointek (Chwaz)...

When I was about 5 and 6 years old (in 1933 and 1934) I was learning to read and could figure out...

Last year at this time I wrote about the old Christmas hymn, "Silent Night." Not long ago I read in...

Father Joseph Mohr had journeyed to Oberndorf, a small town in Austria. It was his new assignment...

My mother used to like the song, "Smiles." It described how smiles can make you happy and even make...

I knew Mary Watts because she was a student at Tehachapi High School and was a classmate of my...

Continued from our Sept. 17, 2022 issue. (I wrote an account of the 1932 flood over 30 years ago...

In the early months of 2022 Liam Alsbury, a ninth grader in Steve Hansen's English class at...

(I wrote an account of the 1932 flood over 30 years ago for the Tehachapi News. I was lucky to find...

Charlotte Wilson, a recent graduate of Heritage Oak School, was notified in June that she was the...

I was talking to a gentleman the other day who said he'd like to read another one of my husband's...

If I had not read Jon Hammond's article about King snakes, I probably would not have thought about...