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If you love prep football, you’ll want to check out a new feature for us this year: student-produced video game coverage.

Each video is shot and edited by students from participating schools. We’re averaging about three videos per week, and fresh videos are posted a few days after Friday games. We’d love to have more participation, but I can say that the videos we are getting are wonderful. I’d encourage everyone to check them out.

And our Snap! Football galleries are back for a second season, thanks to our Snap! sponsor, AJ’s Tuxedo Junction. So far, we’ve posted 55 galleries and more than 2,600 photos featuring students, parents,  teachers and alumni from 14 local high schools and Bakersfield College. If you’ve been to a local football game this season, you might have been Snapped! Check it out.

Finally, we’ve made it easier than ever to buy Californian photographs, through our Bakersfield Pictures section. And prep sports photos are among our most popular purchases, with proud parents and grandparents buying prints, or having photos reproduced on a variety of items such as playing cards, puzzles, mugs, and more. These make for great holiday gifts. And there’s much more than just prep sports available; we also have classic landscapes and iconic local images.

And as an incentive to get you shopping, here’s a reward for reading BdotCOM: We’ll take 20% off any order of $20 or more placed before Oct. 31. All you need to do is enter the coupon code “BdotCOM” when placing your order.

--Logan Molen