Articles from the February 17, 2018 edition
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Air mail, special delivery
It was a sunny day on May 19, 1938 when my eldest brother, Everett Davis, drove my sister, Evelyn,...
Treat your garden now to prevent weeds and bugs
Pre emergent or post emergent A pre emergent herbicide is a product that prevents seed germination....
Destination Imagination inspires Students
There's a house in Bear Valley that twice a week hosts a gathering of school kids working on their...
If I sell a property at a gain, do I owe tax?
The answer is maybe! Only tax law is strange enough to have three different answers to the same...
My gypsy stories
And the gypsies dance and the gypsies sing and the gypsies holler and they stamp their feet to the m...
Meet Your New Neighbors
Gene and Pat Coker moved into their mountaintop home in Bear Valley Springs last November. They had...
The Spaceship Company updates Rotarians
At their Feb. 1 meeting at Steampunk restaurant, the Tehachapi Rotarians were treated to an audio...
How (and why) to measure computer performance
How do we tell if a computer is fast or if it's faster than that computer over there? What's fast an...
Are you prepared?
Disasters seem to be a weekly occurrence, if not daily. We hear it over and over – Are you prepare...
Council focuses on transportation/finance
In a presentation before the Tehachapi City Council on Feb. 5, Robert Ball from the Kern Council of...
Pamela Wildermuth donates 'Summer Rain' to the BVS Spring Art Show
Pamela Wildermuth is an artist in Bear Valley Springs who has the great luck to live in a beautiful...
The tax benefits of your retirement savings plan – Part 2
Tax deferred is not the same as tax free. "Tax free" means that no income taxes are due at all....
Wild rice
Wild rice is actually the grain of a species of grass. The plants grow in shallow water in small lak...
'Folk-Rock' duo Ryanhood returns Feb. 23
In the 1970s, some folksingers, including Bob Dylan, began to "plug-in" and "amp up" like the...
38th Annual California City Desert Tortoise Days
The City of California City and California City Art Commission are very proud to host the 38th De...
'The Importance of Being Earnest' is a hit!
Opening night had our BeeKay audience bring in standing ovations to Tehachapi Community Theatre's pr...
Options for first time home buying
To a lot of people buying a home seems impossible. Looking at the prices of homes can be...
It's Kim Fahey's world.
Kim Fahey made a big splash in the news three years ago when Los Angeles County, citing building...
What's Up in Stallion Springs?
Fred Rowan has been appointed by the Stallion Springs Board of Directors to complete the term of Vin...
Children provide inspiration
We must be an example for our children. This was the message Jim Pendleton shared with the Kiwanis C...
Back to the moon and on to Mars
The 2019 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) budget "reflects confidence that...
Will this be the first aircraft on Mars?
It's not a scaled down model or a toy – Tina Cunningham holds a 32-inch "winglet" that engineers...
MarsFest 2018
I'm planning to visit Mars the weekend of Feb. 23 to 25. Well, at least a reasonable facsimile. You...
Golden Hills School Science Fair
Golden Hills School held their annual science fair on January 31, 2018. We had a record 258...
Pulling the strings to enhance local theater
David SteeleReed was drawn back to Tehachapi by the community arts and friendly faces in town. The...