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Overcrowding in schools has been a hot-button issue in education for years. The complaint is usually that some students get left behind academically among the crowds.
At Casa Loma Elementary School, however, the problem lies in bathroom lines, according to KGET Channel 17.
The school's site...
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Our friends at KGET have a short story on so-called secret menus at local restaurants.
Some of those menus -- such as In-N-Out and Jamba Juice -- aren't so secret given that their items are all over the web. In-N-Out's secret menu isn't secret at all, given it has its own webpage. Jamba...
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Bakosphere stumbled across this post on an anti-Obama blog of all places, but trust us, it has nothing to do with him.
KGET discovered an embarrassing mistake in which Kern County Animal Control tried to get a Bakersfield woman to license her dog. The problem? The dog was a stuffed animal.
We...
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A couple local TV stations have run stories about a Westchester family that complained someone stole their security cameras. The family sounded worried that they were being staked out for a burglary.
Well now the guy caught on camera stealing the camera has apparently turned himself in,...
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KGET has a piece on the ongoing saga of a man who apparently killed his wife with a hammer and now has to pay for his stay in a mental hosptial.
From the KGET story:
That ruling came in the case of Thomas Edde, now 78, who allegedly admitted ending an argument with his wife, Loretta, 72,...
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KGET has been hitting the sex offender issue really hard in recent weeks, after offender Bruce Riley cut his tracking device and disappeared. The station covered the heck out of the story and really was pushing the outrage factor.
Riley was eventually picked up in Las Vegas, but the station...
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KGET has a story about a sex offender threatening some reporters who had come to interview him about moving to their small town of Riverbank, near Modesto. The whole incident was caught on video.
The local connection is that the sex offender, Darren Kawamoto, 44, once lived in Bakersfield...
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Truxtun Avenue editor Nick Belardes has graded Bakersfield media on its campaign coverage.
Here's a quick rundown:
BAKERSFIELD.COM: "biggest media staff around" B
KBAK: "a huge online disappointment" F
KERO: "You can tell they aren't sending their pieces in to get...
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Again how I know all this because I live in my neighborhood. I don’t stick my head in the sand when I step outside. I notice things in my yard and around my yard and they make a lot of noise so I pay attention to what is happening around my home.
here is where neighbor has been...
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Check out Californian city beat writer James Geluso's blog for a bit of action between former Congressman Bill Thomas and current councilwoman Sue Benham over a possible connection between Highway 58 and the future Westside Parkway.
No one has commented yet on KGET's story about the standoff...
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Reflecting on 2007, I was living in autopilot. I need to mix things up a bit.
One of my problems is that I'm a bit of a couch potato at night. I get lazy and then don't do the things I would rather do- like read or paint.... or what I SHOULD do- like clean and exercise.
So, my...
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Why is it that "Bakersfield" is a punchline? Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" featured a news piece by KGET Channel 17 last night, and all Colbert said was "Bakersfield" and he got a laugh.
Are we that funny? Are people laughing because they're shocked we...
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