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NBA BASKETBALL CAMP COMING TO TAFT NBA Veteran Sean Rooks to host Junior Basketball Camp  (Taft, Calif., June 19, 2009) – NBA veteran Sean Rooks will host a basketball camp in Taft on Thursday July 9th thru Saturday July...

Join Christian Home Educators of the County of Kern for our annual Home School Forum on Thursday, July 16th, from 7-8:30 at Riverlakes Community Church, 4301 Calloway Dr. We will have a panel available to answer the questions: 1. Why...

With Halloween right around the corner, costumes are on every ones mind right now. Everyone wants to have a unique costume that blows people away, however, most people fall short. Well grab a...

Flying enthusiasts have a variety of choices for instruction in the Kern County area. Lessons are available for everyone from beginning private pilots to those seeking commercial transport certifications. Among those businesses offering...

    The Kiwanis Club of South Bakersfield, with help from First 5 Kern, the Bakersfield Californian, and FKM, has been busy with preparations for their annual Kid’s Safety Carnival.      The...

Police Activities League: PAL Youth Center, 301 E. 4th St., 283-8880. The PAL-sponsored program is year-round and open to anyone between the ages of 8 and 17. Beginners train from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday in the summer and...

Kern County Library System 868-0700 www.kerncountylibrary.org The Kern County library system has more than two dozen branches, plus two bookmobiles. The system offers more than 1 million volumes and borrows books from other...

Demographics, Crime Rate & More Beale Park In 1908, Truxtun Beale, the only son of Tejon Ranch owner Lt. Edward F. Beale and wife Mary E. (Edwards) Beale, donated five acres of land on Oleander Avenue for the building of the first...

It is an unincorporated town just north of Bakersfield across the Kern River, west of the Kern River Oilfield, and east of Highway 99. The amount of land area in Oildale is 6.4 sq. miles. Most of the original U-2 spy planes flown out...

Here is your guide to hospitals in Bakersfield and the greater Kern County area: Bakersfield Bakersfield Heart Hospital: 3001 Sillect Ave., 316-6000, www.bakersfieldhearthospital.com. Bakersfield Memorial Hospital: 420 34th St.,...

American Heart Association 404 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, 327-1173, www.americanheart.org. Education on heart disease and stroke, fundraisers. The American Heart Assocation is working everyday to save lives from America's No. 1...

Kern County wouldn't be what it is today if it weren't for the oil industry. We produce 67 percent of California's oil. If Kern County was a state, we would be fourth in the nation for oil production. Taxes raised from oil production...

Where can you get a good plate of fish ‘n’ chips in Bakersfield? What preschools do local parents recommend? What bands are playing this weekend? When you have local questions, Bakersfield.com and its sister Web...

Valley fever Valley fever is a fungal disease endemic to the San Joaquin Valley, particularly Kern County. It is contracted by breathing in spores released by the fungus, Coccidioides immitis, that grows in local soils. After...

Kern County has a number of programs for parents who wish to educate their children at home. Homeschooling is legal, although some are watching closely a court case that has threatened it. In February 2008, the 2nd District Court of...