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Celebrate spring at the ‘Kern County Fair Spring Fest’ this weekend
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Fair is five months away, but if that feels like too long of a wait, head over to the fairgrounds this weekend. The “Kern County Fair Spring Fest” kicked-off Thursday and continues through Sunday. Spring Fest runs from 5 to 11 p.m. Friday and noon to 11 p.m. […]
Our View: The public deserves answers about Scrivner
Twenty days have passed since Kern County sheriff’s deputies responded to a violent altercation at Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner’s Tehachapi home and there still are more questions than answers. Scrivner’s 2nd District constituents — as well as all Kern County residents — deserve answers.
Liberty's Munoz-Rodriguez medals at state swimming championships
Liberty sophomore Sophia Munoz-Rodriguez finished ninth in the 200 intermediate medley to medal at the CIF State Swimming Championships on Saturday in Clovis. The reigning BVarsity All-Area girls swimmer of the year qualified for the finals with an eighth-place finish in Friday's prelims with a time of 2 minutes 2.25 seconds. She was slightly slower in the final, finishing in 2:03.86.
Fire department gives update on arson investigation
Kern County Fire Department firefighters arrived at the structure of 2200 Young Avenue, in Lake Isabella, Thursday April 18, according to Kern County Fire Department’s public information officer, Andrew Freeborn who sent the Kern Valley Sun a current update to the department’s arson investigation, on Friday May 3.
Preliminary hearing in 3-year-old’s death moved to June
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A preliminary hearing for a woman charged with murder in the death of her 3-year-old foster child was postponed Thursday. The hearing, previously scheduled Monday, is now set for June 20, according to Superior Court records. Margaret Eichhorst, 32, is being held without bail in the death of Alejandro Perez Jr. […]
Effort being restarted to mark graves of military veterans who have no headstone
Few who served in America's armed forces would have believed it possible that they might someday be laid to rest in an unmarked grave — with no headstone and no name to be remembered by. So it came as unsettling news in 2020 when Jim La Mar, then-president of...
City Council approves $1.4 million purchase of Union Avenue motel
For decades, the Ramkabir Motel on Union Avenue offered cheap, albeit grimy living for the city’s poor and impoverished. Then last fall, days before Halloween, a structure fire left several rooms in ruin and instigated Pacific Gas and Electric to shut off gas lines to the site. Residents were left without power, said Bakersfield City Councilman Andrae Gonzales.
Upmarket brings vibrancy to old Haberfelde building in downtown Bakersfield
The five story Haberfelde building, conceived exactly 100 years ago, was to be one of the tallest buildings in the San Joaquin Valley, and, he hoped, the most important office building in the city.
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