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Well, better late than never. For a variety of reasons, last week's crime map got delayed.
So what does it say? Well first, off property crime is most definitely up. There were 247 crimes in the week ending Dec. 7, up from 209 the week prior. That's an increase of 18 percent.
Just about every...
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It's not exactly a white Monday in Bakersfield, but our neighbors to the east in the Kern River Valley are spoiled with the stuff.
Check out these photos from today's snowfall, and find out what the snowy conditions mean for our local skiing/snowboarding resort.
But it's not all fun and games....
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Dec. 15, 2008—As the weather turns colder and the holiday season approaches, Wal-Mart Foundation today announced the donation of more than 2,200 new coats to elementary school students in Northern and Central California who were identified by their local school district...
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Q: People living in the Rosedale area are very lucky that anytime they smell the bad odor they can tell immediately that the culprit is the refinery. The problem is addressed immediately.
However, people in the southwest Bakersfield area, particularly in the vicinity of Panama Lane, are...
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Department of Justice
United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott
Eastern District of California
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Local law enforcement recruited a bunch of high schoolers to act as decoys and try to buy cigarettes from tobacco sellers.
And guess what?
It was fun!
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Californian photographer, Felix Adamo, took this picture of a bumper sticker on a truck driving on Rosedale Highway Tuesday.
There was apparently more than one bumper sticker on aforementioned truck. Goodness knows what the other stickers said!
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Even colder temperatures than we're experiencing at the moment, coupled with the possibility of upcoming rains, means it might — and we emphasize the word might — snow in Bako next week.
Here's some blurbage from the national Weather Service:
TURNING MUCH COOLER AND UNSETTLED OVER...
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Local pharmacists won't have to get high on their own supply because they're already loaded!
Bakersfield is the top-paying market for pharmacists, and Bakersfield dentists make more money than their Los Angeles counterparts, according to a new analysis of high-paying jobs across America.
Using...
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It might seem kind of presumptuous that I could narrow down & decide on the absolute best thing about Bakersfield, but I've been here almost a year and a half now, so I consider myself somewhat of an expert.
We moved from Minneapolis to Bakersfield in September 2007 for my...
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Hello Bakersfield and all Kern County!
In watching the news the other day, our family felt a need to help other families that are finding themselves without a home and bare necessities.
The Bakersfield Homeless Shelter is in need of gently used or new: blankets, pillows, jackets and...
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It seems that every year the holiday season sneaks up on all of us. Before you know it, it will be time to start buying all those gifts for your family and friends. If you are like me, you sometimes just cannot figure out what to buy someone for the holidays. Being a sports...
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Dear Santa,
First, I’d like to thank you for another great sports year. I’m mailing this letter early because I was afraid you wouldn’t get it in time, what with the government budget cuts at the post office and all. I hope all is well with you and...
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Fur crying out loud!
Just received a call from a Realtor friend who just got a listing for a central Bakersfield home.
There are two guinea pigs in the back yard abandoned by the previous owner, he said. If you want them, they're yours.
Call the Cope Real Estate Team at 871-2673.
The rodents...
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A note to all the grumpy gits you meet around town — and on the most rarest occasions, on these blogs: Happiness is contagious.
That's right. If you surround yourself with smiley, happy people, you're more likely to be a smiley, happy person yourself.
So put the pills down and head to the...
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Bakersfield and its surrounding burgs have long been known for long being stinky. It's not the unwashed masses lining up at Jerry's on a Friday night causing this funk, but rather those smelly beasts we all like carved up on our tables every Sunday ... and Monday and Tuesday, etc.
Our dairies...
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When the Harv looks for another sister city to align Bakersfield with he could make it much easier for us to remember who the heck we're twinned with by picking a name we can all pronounce.
He could even find a city inhabited by the same kind of people who live here. Then if residents from both...
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Today I went out for lunch. Nothing special, except that I usually eat in my office, preferring to save the five-to-ten bucks it costs for lunch for other pressing things, such as gas money. However, I just itched to leave the office today. Everyone, it seemed, from my boss to my coworkers, and...
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Former Bakersfield High grad and current Washington Redskins cheerleader, Tiffany Bacon, has been selected to cheer at the Pro Bowl.
This isn't an excuse to link to lots of pictures of her.
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Let's ignore for a moment facebakersfield's detective work and subsequent claim that there is more than one bike path beaver.
There are far more pressing concerns.
Let's name that beaver!
This idea came in a phone call to us a few minutes ago from northwest Bakersfield resident, Dallas Walton....
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The grocery store with the porn name opens its first Bakersfield location today and you can follow along with Fresh and Easy's very own live tweets!
Go here for instant satisfaction.
The locations can be found on our Money Talks blog.
One of our Growth and Economy reporters is on location at...
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At what age do you stop referring to your best friends as BFFs?
That's one of many questions we had when reading this melancholy tale of a birthday weekend that wasn't.
The sad details are here.
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Two weeks ago we bemoaned the lack of a decent English cucumber. One that would last a week in the fridge without going soft and pathetic at the end.
Trips to Young's and Vons and Trader Joe's were all to no avail.
But then we were saved by the Saturday morning farmer's market on F street.
It...
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I went into my new dietitian with fear and doubt in my heart.
I came out with hope.
She was totally young and friendly, and was definitely healthy (at least by all outward appearances). Although she has never had an...
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Granted, lots of travelers passing through Bako are on to more exotic locales like Solana Beach down south or Monterey up north.
So when a tweet comes through which says ...
"Some things never change. Like how crappy Bakersfield is. Though I suppose it might be getting crappier."
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Who are you?
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I am posting this hoping that someone in our blog community has heard from our blog friend Sam Heath. His eloquently written blogs have not graced us for several weeks, and we not only miss his voice, but we are concerned for his well being. While I am hoping that he is off visiting...
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Yep, it's that time again. Time for your weekly crime map and your friendly neighborhood analysis courtesy the BNT.
Check out the latest crime maps.
Once again the focus is on burglaries. We're up slightly this week to 126 from Nov. 17 to 23. That's only three more than the week before, but...
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"I grew up in Bakersfield, California: an unsexy part of a sexy state."
This was written by Caroline Lawrence during an preamble to a book review on Mary Renault's "The Last of the Wine."
We love it.
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Is it just a coincidence that UFOs are only seen by people with UFO blogs?
Check out this Bakersfield UFO sighting, complete with the following description:
"It moved slowly downward, toward earth….at that point, the red “star” winked on and off, as if it was getting no...
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It's one thing for us to take L.A.'s crap, but Forestville?
How utterly humiliating.
However, luckily for Bako, the truck carrying toxic dirt crashed and spilled its evil load miles away from our back yard.
No one was injured, so we can say this without recriminations.
Good.
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Was today the beginning of our charming fog season? It was difficult to tell. The air's been so bad these past couple of weeks, we couldn't tell if this morning sported particularly grotesque haze or the onset of winter's romantic fog.
When our fog really rolls in and cars actually drive slowly...
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From the Visalia Times-Delta:
A Bakersfield man who was found shot in the head Sunday evening at a gas station in Goshen told deputies he was shot after being flagged down on southbound 99 south of Traver, according to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department.
Whole story here.
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Homicide that Occurred on 11/22/2008
NEWS RELEASE
KERN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
CORONER DIVISION
This news release is prepared under the direction of the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator for the convenience of news reporters. Facts concerning news events of...
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If we were compiling a list of the coolest people in Bakersfield we'd include Smokey (the guy who panhandles cigarettes downtown because he's just so darn nice and polite) and local radio talk show host ,Jaz McKay, because he tools around in private jets and that's very impressive.
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I'm sitting here wondering about Bakersfield. I'm thinking about the politics here. I have to admit they aren't nearly as bad as some places I've heard of. But I still wonder. When you think about politics in the United States, I think corruption, uselessness, money, and...
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There's always been this feeling among our northern neighbors that because their city is larger it is automatically better.
Seems like a valid point at first glance, but when you're arguing about two cities plagued by car thefts, awful air quality, gang wars and nondescript architecture, surely...
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From the Anchorage Daily News comes the story of Bakersfield's Brandon Seybert, 19, who was shot in the leg during a drunken brawl in Alaska back in July.
His drinking companion was convicted Wednesday on two counts of first-degree assault and one count of second-degree assault.
Here's...
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Way back in April, Trekkies were abuzz with the news that scenes from the new "Star Trek" film were being shot just south of Bakersfield.
The location on Taft Highway near Enos Lane is used as a stand-in for Iowa, Captain Kirk's home state.
We couldn't be prouder.
Check out the newly...
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Based on how many times a Web site is mentioned in the blogosphere, ://urlfan ranks almost 3 million Web sites to see which one is most popular.
Bakersfield.com comes in at 3,141 out of 2,815,144 sites.
Here are a few other rankings:
No. 1: en.wikipedia.org
No. 2: flickr.com
No. 3:...
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Rush hour is a good thing?
The Motor City Madman gets tough when responding to a caller on a Bakersfield radio talk show.
Check out classic Nugent here.
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Last week you might recall our crime map showed a big jump in the number of burglaries in the city. There were 152 during the week that ended Nov. 9. This week that number dropped to just 123. That's almost exactly the same as the week ending Nov. 2.
Check out the latest crime maps.
What about...
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San Luis Obispo is nice and all that, but it ain't $7.50 Guinness-nice.
After moaning at the price of a glass of the black stuff at Tilted Kilt a few months ago, we were in Mother's Tavern in SLO yesterday. To be fair the bartender only charged us $6 for a Snakebite, but the listed price for...
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Change Is A Comin'!
It's the
Newsletter - Post Election Chill-Out Edition
My fellow Americans - it’s finally over!
What an ending to an election that brought even the most hardened non-political folk off the armchair and into the voting booth.
The nation as well as Kern...
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It was so fun to hear identical Lil Wayne songs playing on two Bakersfield radio stations at the same time, but sadly that's coming to an end.
Play 103.9's last day is today.
"Sadly, the economy has impacted us as sales have suffered to the point of us closing down,” says APD/morning...
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Yesterday in The Californian we learned that Chihuahuas are a delicate breed, many of whom end up at animal shelters when their owners can't care for them properly.
But the story of Bubba the Bakersfield Chihuahua is truly uplifting.
After chewing through the cord of an electric blanket, Bubba...
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Mention Bakersfield to most out-of-towners and they'll turn their noses up and remark on the smell.
They pick up the olfactory delights of our scented city while bombing through on the 99 or the 5, noses twitching inquisitively like a squirrel on our bike path staring down a peloton of shiny,...
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We got 17 out of 19 (should have been 18, but we accidentally left one answer blank.)
A couple of the questions are sadly a little out of date, but any Bakersfieldian worth his biscuits and gravy will score well.
The quiz is here.
Here's the tie breaker: Which two NFL teams did former Foothill...
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