A blog about Business & Finance, Neighborhoods, and News.
|
Can we silence ambulances during quiet times? Any local stations going high def? Why is the San Lauren dog park such a mess? What's with the dirt pile at 24th and Oak streets? Ask TBC: What's with the odd-sized paper in The Californian? What's the latest on the Isabella Dam? Why are the Mark Ponder billboards still up? When will Fairfax-178 be completely done? Why is CSUB allowing trees to die? What's with all the spiders? June 06 July 06 August 06 September 06 October 06 November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 |
|
|
Q: When will Harris Road go through from Buena Vista Road to Gosford Road?
— Paul Ferriea
TBC: This section of Harris Road should be open to the public by the end of July, said Marian Shaw, civil engineer IV-subdivisions, with the city’s Public Works Department.
Q: What are they doing to the railroad crossing at Baker and Sumner streets?
— Susan St. Laurent
TBC: The railroad crossing construction work at Baker and Sumner streets was completed in early June, according to Ralph Braboy, a civil engineer with Bakersfield’s public works engineering department. Beginning in early May, Union Pacific relayed and elevated three rail lines and the city re-paved and repainted lane markers.
“They set the grade and we matched the pavement to the...
Q: Why hasn’t there been any progress on the shopping center site at the corner of Stockdale Highway and Buena Vista Road? It has been said for years that there is supposed to be an Albertsons and a Today Cleaners but nothing has ever come of it.
— Aimee Shepherd
TBC: Signs at the site promote it as the future home of an Albertsons grocery store, Albertsons Express gas station, McDonald’s and Today Cleaners.
Albertsons purchased the land in 2001 for future development, but...
Welcome to the new version of our Bakersfield.com blogs.As you can tell, there are some big changes. We have moved from our original blog provider, Typepad. Now we are running our blogs on our own system, the same one we use for our user profiles and blogs.So what does this mean for our loyal blog readers? Well, a couple things.First off, to comment on our new blogs you need to be registered with Bakersfield.com. You don’t have to have your name attached with your posts. You can choose...
|
