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The Honorable Raymond Watson,
Supervisor, Fourth District
1115 Truxtun Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Dear Supervisor Watson,
A number of us from the Mountain Communities attended the meeting of the Kern County Planning Commission, where the Frazier Park...
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Came across this list of happy news about Kern County and thought folks might be interested.
This is straight from the Fall 2009 Kern Economic Develolpment Corp. newsletter, so credit goes to the folks thre for gathering the examples into this list!
Here's what they say:
As a public relations...
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The Video Tells the Story
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I just read Lois Henry's article about taxpayers affording county employee's benefits.
I'm one of those county employees. Mind you, I'm not a manager or department head, I don't get any of those fancy perks she mentioned in her article. I'm just a lowly grunt.
I started...
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Hey everyone, I am seeking some information, My grandfather just passed away, he has no will that I know of, his property (house, furniture, etc) is going through probate, I was informed that an administrator will come in and take notes on all property and its estimated value for...
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The controversy of "Illegal Immigration" has been on the top of the American peoples heads for years now. Some believe that illegal aliens have the right to live in America, others do not. I am one of those who is against illegal immigration (not immigration it...
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Update: Here is a short clip from some of the footage I captured. I have some better footage....I will upload it as soon as I can. I actually zoomed in on a few of the jet aircraft spraying this junk.
I watched three jets crisscross the sky spraying...
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The Theatre group "Act-Out," made up of 8 foster teens from Kern County will be performing monologues and scenes from "Class Action" by Brad Slaight. The performance is 30 minutes long and being hosted at the Bakersfield Community Theatre at 3p.m. The show is free and open to...
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Usually around this time of year, teenagers have no trouble lining up jobs for the summer. This year, however, they'll probably find there aren't many jobs out there.
Renee Wood, founder of Teens4Hire.org, described the situation as a "doomsday forecast" and said only one out of three...
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Rockwell brings
Comedy Hypnotist Jon Bouvier
back for another amazing show
at Trout’s Blackboard Stage.
Jon performs a fast paced, funny, and sometimes outrageous show where the people onstage are the real stars. Make plans now to join us for an entertaining evening. Come...
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NEW!! West Coast Swing& 2-Step Dance Workshops with Instructor Andrea Hall!
Only at Trouts & The Blackboard Stages, 805 N. Chester Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93308
Phone: 661-399-6700 - Online: WWW.TROUTSBLACKBOARD.COM OR...
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Rockwell brings
Comedy Hypnotist Jon Bouvier
back for another amazing show
at Trout’s Blackboard Stage.
Jon performs a fast paced, funny, and sometimes outrageous show where the people onstage are the real stars. Make plans now to join us for an entertaining evening. Come...
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West Coast Swing is being revitalized with the help of Two Incredible New Dance Floors @ ROCKWELL’S TROUT’S & THE BLACKBOARD STAGES - over 1000 sq ft each! Come see for yourself, you will be glad you did! Trout’s has kept it’s original “Honky...
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From the Los Angeles Personal Injury Blog:
MARCH 16, 2009 – Two people died Saturday when their single-engine Piper Cherokee went down shortly after takeoff on a hillside near Cal Poly Pomona. The plane of one of five light planes in the Fullerton-based Skylarks Club flying to Lake Mojave...
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Sludge Ban Questioned in Court
The State Appeals Court listened today to Kern's desire to ban sewage sludge application on Kern soil. Read the article at www.bakersfield.com/hourly_news/story/705151.html .
This is a land, water, air and economic sustainability...
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We got a "tip" from a reader who said the Juvenile Hall building here had not been inspected and cleared by the fire marshal’s office since 2004.
Well, the reader was partly right.
The county fire marshal cleared the building last in 2004. But it turns out the state fire...
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Pollution Hurts Crop Yield
A recent peer reviewed study at Cal State Fullerton gives us the cost of ozone and particle pollution on our health and economy. business.fullerton.edu/centers/iees/reports/Benefits%20of%20Meeting%20Clean%20Air%20Standards.pdf It places the cost...
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Has anyone ever heard of Geocaching before? I had heard about it once or twice, but it didn't look interesting enough to research. Apparently, you log on to Geocaching.com and look through lists of Geocache pages, and the pages have precise coordinates leading to wherever the cache is hidden....
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Better Air Increases Lifespan
This study, which is at the highest level of reliability, shows that improvements to our local air quality would add months and perhaps years (given how bad our air is) to the average lifespan of Kern County residents.
In the study average...
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Scott Coburn, a former Kern County Sheriff’s deputy, was fired after he failed to respond to a report of a person shooting at cattle and then told lies about where he was and what he was doing at the time of the call, according to Sheriff's documents.
Another deputy dispatched to the...
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Kern County Fire Department Press Release
TAFT, CA – A family of 6 narrowly escaped their burning home early this morning. At approximately 1:41 am, an alert neighbor noticed heavy smoke coming from the home in the 400 block of 4th Avenue in Taft, and awakened the residents...
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I was asked, or rather told, by a friend this weekend that the sheriff’s helicopter was flying around his neighborhood looking for houses violating the no-burn regulations. So I asked Senior Dep. Mark King from the Kern County Sheriff’s Department whether this is indeed the case....
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For Immediate Release on December 17, 2008
Kern Chief’s Working Together to Promote DUI Awareness
Kern ‘Avoid’ anti-DUI Winter Campaign in Full Swing
WHAT: The Kern County ‘Avoid’ DUI Task Force will hold a press
conference to emphasize the...
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There's a Starbucks on every corner. The roads are full of gas-guzzling SUVs. The air is so bad you can't see the mountains. Blah, blah, blah.
This is Bakersfield, baby — the land where time stood still!
Is that Jack Kerouac's legs dangling out of the box car?
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One might expect our environmental health boss to put a positive spin on Kern's smelly reputation, but Matt Constantine went a step further in an answer to a reader's question about regulating the odor from dairies on our Ask The Californian blog.
“I actually kind of enjoy it."...
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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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Kern County Fire Department Press Release
RIDGECREST, CA – Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at approximately 7:31 P.M., a call was received by the Kern County Fire Department, for a structure fire in the 2300 block of Primavera Street in Ridgecrest. 9 Kern County Firefighters responded to the...
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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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When you are in financial trouble, personally, do you immediately look for a higher paying job? What is the first step you take? CUTS. Cutting back and consolidating are simple concepts that we use in personal finances to help keep us on track financially. Any individual...
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After three weeks of speculation, the highly controversial A-11 offense made its debut Friday night in Kern County by not one, but two teams.
What was thought to be a chance to see offensive fireworks, turned out to be a complete dud for both East High and Bakersfield High. In the four...
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The Aces are one of three Kern County Special Olympics floor hockey teams and one of 75 teams in Sothern California. These athletes come from all over Kern County and some have been playing floor hockey for over 20 years. The athletes...
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This is a news release of the Kern County Sheriff's Office.
Please do not contact the Sheriff's Communications Center.
Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008
Time: 1:41:22 AM
Details: On October 16, 2008 at about 11pm, Deputies from the Gang Suppression Section saw two vehicles...
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Reader: I am outraged that you would
picture an animal being euthanized on
the front page of your Sunday paper. I
realize there is a serious problem with too
many animals being abandoned, but children
will see these articles, and how do
you expect them to handle this?
This problem is...
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Daily our children take fields trips. As parents we worry about the buses they ride in. We worry about the food they will be eating. We worry about the class bully. But do you worry that your children may be visiting a place where men are found carrying assault rifles and over 100 rounds of...
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Q: In (a recent Californian), there was a wonderful article titled “The Joys of Local Produce.” Since Kern County is so proud of its produce, wouldn’t it be nice if our local farmers put up signs telling people what crops are being grown in the many farms along the roads and...
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Mosquitoes, while small, have caused big problems in Kern. Recently it was West Nile virus, and 70 years ago, it was malaria.
Local history buff George Gilbert Lynch sent me this history on malaria in the county. Interesting reading.
The last epidemic of mosquito-born malaria in Bakersfield...
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Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site
FRANCISCO BAUTISTA M BAKERSFIELD CA 93305 ...
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Despite his work as a high school trustee who never let his beliefs get in the way of improving local high schools and coupled with his rugged, bad-boy looks, Chad Vegas still can't get a break on our hottest local politician poll.
He's currently in last place, though 'hot' on the heels...
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Zora Neale Hurston, 1891-1960
Now lauded as the intellectual and spiritual foremother to a generation of black and women writers, Zora Neale Hurston's books were all out of print when she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960.
Born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, Hurston and her...
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My neighbors leave their two brown trash cans on the street 24/7. Usually, they are overflowing and trash ends up in the street. Is there a county law that prohibits this nuisance and eye sore?
— Darrell Sephus
A: Overflowing trash cans are code violations in both the city of...
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First, a trailer was stolen from Houchin Blood Bank in May.
And now, the local chapter of the Red Cross is suffering after thieves took $1,300 worth of diapers, toiletry kits, flashlights, water, chairs and cots from two trailers Friday night. (Read "Low blow: Supplies stolen from Red...
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If you like comedy, you'll love this piece. It's the best comedy I've written. And in a way, it's terrifying too...
I once lived in a little white house near downtown Bakersfield in the Oleander area. A rental, it wasn’t a fancy house. Probably built in the 1950s, it was still comfortable,...
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Sorry for the lack of updates on this. This hasn't been the only thing I've had going on and I honestly forgot to come back and update. Plus, I wasn't that sure that anyone would really care anyway. Again, my apologies.
When I called back and spoke with the gentleman in another...
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SBA Offers Disaster Assistance to Residents and Businesses Affected by Flash Flooding and Landslides in Kern County
Low-interest Federal disaster loans are available to homeowners, renters, businesses of all sizes and private, non-profit organizations whose property was damaged or destroyed by...
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I received a subpoena this morning, jammed into my door. The name was spelled incorrectly and the contact information was incorrect as well. My husband called to inquire about the subpoena, since we didn't know who it was for in our household and had NO idea whatsoever it would be pertaining...
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Just when you think the dust has settled, someone comes in with a broom — or in this case, a lawsuit — and brings everything back up.
Dr. Leonard Perez, the former chairman of Kern Medical Center's OB/GYN department, is suing the county for breaching his contract by firing him in...
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A new bako sound, future AmeriKERNa classic? You'll decide. I'll abide.
What this Country Means to Me
Dr BLT
hardly a day goes by
when I don't play a song
by old Merle Haggard and his boys
hardly a night goes by
when a...
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Flash flood warning
This is a news release of the Kern County Sheriff's Office.
Please do not contact the Sheriff's Communications Center.
Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Time: 3:16:06 PM
Department Contact: Michael Whorf
Phone: 661-303-4592
Details:
The National...
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Date: July 16, 2008 Los Padres National Forest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...
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Mosquito abatement employees go onto private property without permission from time to time.
This has been done locally to treat abandon pools teeming with mosquitoes (see the photo).
A Pennsylvania businessman, though, considers this trespassing.
From the York Daily Record:
James Yelton,...
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