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Heroic Local Youths Foil Assault

From the January 18, 2008 Edition

By Jerry Quick

My daughter came home from a trip to the Starbucks at Laval Road with a wild story Sunday, Jan. 13.

Clarissa Quick, 17 (captain of the Frazier Mountain High School varsity girls …

Armed Robbery Attempt Hits Lake of the Woods

From the January 18, 2008 Edition

On Tuesday, Jan. 15 at about 4 p.m. Kern County Sheriff’s deputies from the Frazier Park substation were called to Lake of the Woods on a report of a residential robbery by two suspects armed …

Trustees Accept Resignation of Edison School District Chief

From the January 18, 2008 Edition

By Michael Butcher, Office of Kern County Superintendent of Schools

Trustees of Edison School District in Bakersfield (Orangewood School and Edison Middle School) announced Monday that they have accepted the resignation of Superintendent Cheri Sanders …

Truth Does Not Die: A Life of Service

From the January 18, 2008 Edition

The Reverend Martin Luther King’s philosophy of nonviolent direct action and his strategies for rational, constructive social change galvanized the conscience of America during the struggle for civil rights and for the right to vote …