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Dance Team Begins Funds Drive

From the October 17, 2008 Edition

Dance Studio Teams Tuning Their Moves for Competitions

By Robin Barrington

The Dance Studio’s Competition Dance Team is busy working on new routines and creating challenging choreography under owner Jamie Roberts’ direction. Roberts enjoys sharing …

Walking for a Cure to Lupus

From the October 17, 2008 Edition

By Donna Bundy

I recently noticed an article about Lori Smith, a community member who fell to lupus. It is an insidious disease. My family will join a lupus research fundraising walk in November …

Kashanski Wins New Scholarship

From the October 17, 2008 Edition

By Sharon Decker

The Mary Boykin Chesnut Chapter #2634 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is proud to announce that one of their younger members, Ann Kashanski, has been awarded the Charlotte M.F. Bentley/New …

Facts Dispel Rumors of ‘Q Fever’

From the October 17, 2008 Edition

Horse Ranch Link Unlikely Doctor Says

By Patric Hedlund

The medical director for Ventura County’s Department of Public Health says it is highly unlikely that the starving horses on the Bor family’s Cochema Ranch …

Pun Alert

From the October 17, 2008 Edition

Submitted by Rosalie Maggio

  • The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
  • I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan …
  • Men with Assault Rifles on Wind Wolves Preserve Arrested

    From the October 17, 2008 Edition

    The Kern County Sheriff’s Major Violators Unit arrested two men for weapons charges in the Wind Wolves Preserve on Tuesday, Oct. 14. They were called to meet with deputies from the Frazier Park Substation who …

    LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE IS MONDAY, OCT. 20

    From the October 17, 2008 Edition

    Monday, Oct. 20—The last day to register to vote is Oct. 20.

    If you are not registered or need to update your voter registration with a new address, Monday is the last day to put …

    Tejon Ranch Air Monitor Donated To Measure Local Air Quality

    From the October 17, 2008 Edition

    Reported by Linda MacKay

    In a letter to the Mountain Communities Town Council dated October 1, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District says that Tejon Ranch is planning to donate its air monitoring …

    ‘Outrage’ Is Response to Letter on Paramedics

    From the October 10, 2008 Edition

    By Patric Hedlund

    For most, it came with Saturday’s mail. It was a letter bearing arguments against the firefighter paramedic initiative (Measure K) from KernTax, a private Bakersfield-based group with an undisclosed membership. Those registered …