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As my last column noted, we have a peculiar situation up here on our mountain. We have a small city of only four square miles with around 7,000 people surrounded by 400 square miles of unincorporated areas and another 30,000 or so county residents.
A friend who resides in the county was upset with me for writing that I am only the Mayor of the City of Tehachapi — not the community as a whole.
“We may not live in town,” she said, “but Tehachapi is the only city we have, and we consider it our city, too.”
She went on to remind me how much the people in Bear Valley Springs, Stallion Springs, Golden Hills, Sand Canyon, Alpine and the rest of the unincorporated areas contribute to the social and cultural life of the City of Tehachapi.
In an important way, she's right, which only serves to reinforce the disconnect between the political and geographical truth and the social, cultural and emotional reality of our community. Even though only...
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