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As you leave the Tehachapi Valley headed east on Highway 58, you approach the Sand Canyon area....

Spring can arrive slowly and leave quickly in the mountains of Southern California, so it's nice to...

There are two clocks in Downtown Tehachapi that stand in mute testimony to disasters that befell...

Warren Johnson was a former publisher of the Tehachapi News, and he was also a local institution,...

Wet, bountiful winters like we've just experienced benefit the irruptive wildflowers that bloom in p...

C. Hart Merriam was an amazing naturalist and anthropologist of the late 1800s and early 1900s. He...

If you visit the Tehachapi Depot Museum, you will encounter references to "the Stokoe Collection"...

"Quieten'it down in the back of the bus! If you don't behave, I'll stop this bus right here and put...

"Novice falconers are only allowed to catch a Red-tailed Hawk or a Kestrel, which are the most...

“Who’d give a dime to see a piss ant eat a bale of hay?” – Rodney Meter Auctioneer Rod of Lancast...

“There is a day to cast your nets, and a day to dry your nets.” – Traditional Fisherman’s Saying...

“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.” – David O. McKay...

“Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick any two.” – Sign on a desk This sentiment indicates that a customer can g...

“Tootie would go with her mother and brothers to stay with her Dad, who worked as a miner in R...

"I began collecting insects when I was only seven or eight years old. My parents were very...

The Tehachapi Mountains can be a challenging place to garden. Many of the plants carried in chain...

Roses generally do well in Tehachapi, and my recommendation for one of the best miniature roses you...

I'd like to tell you about the beautiful pear orchard that once grew within Tehachapi city limits, n...

"We spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on...

“When people who had never heard of Tehachapi would ask where it was, I’d tell them ‘We’re about h...

“A good laugh and long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” – Irish Prove...

"The night Prohibition was enacted in 1919, there were 13 saloons and only two churches in...

"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason." – Edward R. Murrow...

U. S. Postal Service: "State the names of other post offices near the proposed one in Tehachapi,...

"When I was growing up in Tehachapi, we could hike and explore all over this place, on both sides...