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JOSE GASPAR: People power in Arvin gets results | Jose Gaspar

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DBA receives another Bakersfield city grant of $50,000 to beef up security downtown | News

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City continues to brainstorm on updating the municipal code | News

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2023 made its mark on Kern County, and vice versa | News

As a slate of news events, 2023 was the year that kept giving. Politics, government and business contributed major events all 12 months. National events had local impact just as occurrences originating in and around Bakersfield occasionally touched the nation. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to …

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Underpaid and understaffed, Kern rangers struggle to keep ranks | News

Under a circle of trees and standing on a landscaped knoll that comprises the majority of Heritage Park’s southern edge, Vito Alvarez scans from left to right, and grimaces at what he sees: a couple of tents, spaced apart, but each ramshackle in their tarp-stick-and-rope frames, to the public restrooms 50 feet away, littered with …

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Section of Taft Highway memorialized in honor of Taft soldier | News

As a mother, Juana Ruan has shouldered a lot of responsibilities on behalf of her children. But on Friday, she did something she surely never imagined. The Taft resident climbed a ladder beside a highway that runs alongside the western Kern County city, and unveiled a new highway sign in honor of her son. Printed …

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With a state program set to expire in February, Lakeside Union School District has 3 months to find funds for drinking water | News

Located along Old River Road, Lakeside School is a name that for years has belied a troubled and ironic reality: There’s no drinkable water. Pitched between acres of cabbages and cantaloupe, the school is connected to well water already used by nearby residents and farmers, as well as the swim team. It’s the standard that …

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11-year-old urban planner makes first public presentation | News

Fifth-grader Gentry Starr has big plans. How big? Several city blocks, to start with — enough to win him the full attention of the Bakersfield Planning Commission. There he was during last week’s commission meeting, standing at a podium and taking questions about his proposal for a multi-use park and recreational area spanning 23rd and 24th streets …

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Kern to accept bids for Shafter-Wasco compost facility | News

Kern County will now accept bids to build a new composting facility officials say will save taxpayers millions of dollars and meet looming state deadlines to cut emissions. Chuck Magee, the Kern Public Works manager, said that after seven years, this moves the facility one step closer to being realized. “A lot has occurred over …

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Rental demand rises as homebuying conditions toughen | News

People unable to buy a place of their own, as a general rule, rent one from someone else — which may help explain why Bakersfield’s apartment market reversed direction in the third quarter, back toward extremely low vacancies. A new report by local multifamily real estate specialist Marc Thurston shows the city’s apartments are again pushing the …

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