Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Long-time Tehachapi resident and massage therapist, Molly Sherman of Tehachapi Therapeutic Massage has announced her retirement after providing her healing touch to Tehachapi since April of 1989. Before she was a massage therapist, Molly practiced foot reflexology, a type of therapeutic massage that she learned through books in the 1970s and practiced on friends and family. After experiencing a deep depression in 1984, she booked her first massage and immediately felt the physical and emotional...
In the Aug. 8 meeting, the TUSD school board reported on new facility changes in progress, trainings and key focuses for TUSD ahead of the 2023-24 school year. In an effort to increase safety for students and staff, TUSD has implemented a closed-campus policy that will require front office doors to remain locked at all times at all campuses. Visitors may request entry into the facilities by ringing a doorbell located on the front doors of the office. Office staff will then visually inspect the...
TUSD recognized the Tehachapi Resource Conservation District for their donation and planting of 30 trees throughout TUSD campuses at the June 27 board meeting. Jon Hammond, Julia Baraclough and Cheryl Casdorph, representatives of Tehachapi Resource Conservation District, stated that this donation was made in partnership with JDB Sales Nursery, who discounted the trees to cost and shipping. Each campus received three valley oaks and two cedar trees; the trees are approximately 7 feet tall....
New police chief Richard Standridge will report for work on Monday, June 26, 2023 after being sworn into the position on June 19, 2023 at the city council meeting. Standridge comes to Tehachapi from Bishop where he has served as chief of the Bishop Police Department. Standridge has previously served in law enforcement with the Tulare County Sheriff Department and Porterville Police Department. Standridge's swearing in was met with support from fellow officers of the Porterville, Bishop and...
Tehachapi High School graduates were recognized as co-valedictorians and the Class of 2023 Top 10. Pictured are co-valedictorians Abigail Louise Fuller, Michelle Isabel Orellana, Jonothan Lee Shugart, Jr., Sara McKenna Warner and Hannah Jean Weinstein. Other Class of 2023 Top 10 graduates not pictured include: Kailey Marie Kolesar, Aiden Joseph Peck, Luke Huston Schlosser, Sophie Marie Shulstad and Savannah Grace Schultz. The TUSD Board of Trustees meets on the second Tuesday of the month at...
Councilmember Philip Smith informed of progress updates for a truck-climbing lane to be added to the CA-58 Hwy from Keene to Caliente at the June 5 meeting. Mayor Pro-Tem Joan Pogan-Cord noted that Councilmember Smith has been dedicated to this project and has expressed the need for truck-climbing lanes on CA Hwy-58 for nearly 30 years as he has served on the City Council. CA Hwy-58 has become the second-most traveled highway in California. State Senator Shannon Grove has previously stated verbal support, but Councilmember Smith reported that...
Owners of Sim Sanitation of Tehachapi, PJ and Descygene "D" Simunovich, presented a $10,000 check donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation on June 1. The presentation took place in conjunction with the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and local Make-A-Wish recipient, Super Logan. Additional attendees included Corey Costelloe, City of Tehachapi Assistant Manager, Teresa Carlson, Towneplace Suites Tehachapi Manager and Board Member of Chamber of Commerce and Dana Golding of Sims Sanitation....
