From the February 27, 2009 Edition
By Dean Preston, Tenants Together
A statewide organization for renters’ rights is launching a new hotline for tenants in foreclosure situations. Tenants Together announced the hotline to address a growing problem–the harassment and displacement of …
From the February 27, 2009 Edition
Update Sunday, March 1—By Bill Day
Gigi can now put 80% weight on her left side, where she had the broken hip, and 20% on the right side where she had the crushed ankle. This …
From the February 27, 2009 Edition
By Patric Hedlund
PINE MOUNTAIN (March 3, 2009, 10:40 a.m.)—“The Lilac Festival is on. More when I have a plan together,” Realtor Gary Wilson wrote in an email Tuesday, March 3 at 6 a.m., adding: …
From the February 27, 2009 Edition
UPDATE Frazier Park, CA, March 4, 2009, 8:45 a.m.—The remaining two lanes of the northbound I-5 were opened at 6:25 this morning, as cleanup crews finished operations at the site of the truck fire and …
From the February 27, 2009 Edition
A maintenance worker fell about 20 feet from an internal walkway inside an air filtration unit at the Pastoria Power Plan in Lebec on Monday, Feb. 23 at about 11:50 a.m. About 13 Kern County …
From the February 27, 2009 Edition
By Patric Hedlund
The new firefighter-paramedic program fought for and won by citizens of Pine Mountain does not officially begin until March 1, but three paramedics have quietly begun to get into the routine by …
From the February 27, 2009 Edition
By Pam Sturdevant
Martin Kegel of Frazier Park hooked this massive 17 pound trout on Monday, Feb. 2 at Lake Evans in Buena Vista Park (25 miles southwest of Bakersfield, off Highway 119).
As he …
From the February 27, 2009 Edition
By Gary Meyer
A crowd of about 75 people filed into the Frazier Mountain Park Community Center on Monday evening, Feb. 23 to learn about the Municipal Advisory Council proposal for the Mountain Communities (MCMAC). …
From the February 27, 2009 Edition
Naturalist Leads Free Tour This Saturday
On Saturday, Feb. 28 from 12-2:30 p.m. join Naturalist for You Joel Robinson on a tour of upper Walnut Trail in the San Emigdio Mountains. This tour is in …
From the February 27, 2009 Edition
By Harry P. Thal
We contacted Harry Thal to learn more about him and to verify the validity of this report. “I work primarily with seniors in Kernville and I found this is an interesting …