Week’s Highs To Be in the 80s—National Weather Service
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 7:30 a.m.)—This is a good week to get busy and finish up a lot of those projects that we just can’t seem to get done when it …
Breaking News: Kern Sheriff on-scene of a Shooting Near Fairview Elementary in South Bakersfield
FRAZIER PARK, CALIF. (Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 at 5:39 p.m.)–Kern County Sheriff’s Department has released this update on the shooting near Fairview Elementary School in Bakersfield:
"On January 23rd, 2013 at about 2:28 pm Kern …
Winter fun: Snowball fights and Icy Roads
By Gary Meyer
Last week’s snow brought sliding cars, sliding children and a sliding scale of smart to not-so-smart. It also brought business to those merchants who were prepared and who were positioned to benefit.
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Shooting at Taft School is families’ nightmare
By Patric Hedlund
Local parents have been on edge since the Newtown shooting December 14 in which 20 small children and six administrators were killed by a 20-year-old man with a semiautomatic rifle equipped with …
Safety Plans for ETUSD schools on agenda for Jan. 24 board meeting
School safety plans are on the El Tejon Unified School District agenda for Thursday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. at the El Tejon Continuation High School on the FMHS campus (the first white building on …
Head-on collision kills one, closes Highway 138
Paul W. Rivas, 51 of Lancaster died in a head-on collision on Highway 138 (Ave. D, between 140th and 150th Street West) on Monday, Jan. 14 at about 11 a.m. The roadway was closed to …
Come for breakfast, leave with hope and help
Homeless and at-risk census for all the Mountain Communities
Compiled by Patric Hedlund
Anne Weber is not exactly a short-order cook, but the director of the Mountain Communities Family Resource Center (FRC) is inviting mountain …
NRA apostate
Mr. Bugbee energetically objected to charts that we printed with a letter from former National Rifle Associaiton (NRA) member, Juanda Lee. In her letter "Bring back our old NRA" she said she had dropped her …
News and Features
Comment: OpEd: We Must Choose Between Dialogue and Devastation
It was a different time in a different country when a leader who had won the Nobel Peace Prize stood to call for democratic dialogue: “We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation,” Aung ...
Copycat shooting in Taft
January 10, 2013
Dear Editor:
This copycat style of gun use on the Taft High School campus must get addressed at our local school campus level.
[School safety plans were on the ETUSD agenda ...
Habitat loss
January 10, 2013
Dear Editor:
I live in Ventura County just east of Chuchupate Ranger Station. I hike the trails around my home regularly and I’ve just found that a large area on one of ...
Kern County Grand Jury seeks applicants
Applications for the Kern County Grand Jury will be accepted from now through April 12, 2013.
The Kern County Grand Jury is made up of 19 citizens, randomly selected from a pool who have ...
U.S. Forest Service gives fee-free days
In the local Mount Pinos District of the Los Padres National Forest, a $5 fee is collected from snow play visitors who come to the Mil Potrero ‘Y’ or proceed up to Mount Pinos during ...