mostly nonfiction and bakersfield news | September 30th, 2008
Big Brothers In The Scene: Bakersfield Band Lost Ocean Drops EMI Sub-Label, Helps Shape Young Band
It made sense to meet Lost Ocean, the current big brothers of the Bakersfield music scene, at a local church. They normally practice in a trailer behind a house of God. Besides, it all makes sense if you take into account their music’s fun, wholesome lyrics about life and love.
As the sun beat down outside, [...]
Why A Man Pushing A Basket Would Try To Help The World
I heard the rattle of the basket as it ran over sidewalk cracks. There was a man in a red shirt pushing it as he walked west on South Laurelglen. The rattle grew louder as he walked through the curving path of Garden Park.
On the opposite side of the street I was filming bees while [...]
Woman Says Destroyed Crash Memorials Were Reminder To Drive Safe
Cal Trans took down more than two dozen reminders on Monday that Taft Highway is one of Kern County’s bloodiest roadways, citing safety reasons.
The two-lane highway is the artery linking Taft with Bakersfield and is a potential deathtrap for commuters faced with the possibility of head-on collisions, hazardous low visibility from dusty and foggy days [...]
Dow Jones Tanks In Historic Drop
Economist Concerned 778 Point Dow Drop Could Trigger Recession
Monday’s historic 778 point Dow Jones industrial average drop was the largest in U.S. history, causing a financial panic that could result in economic recession, according to CSU Bakersfield Economics Professor Dr. Donald Olsen.
“It [stock market crash] was in response to the failure of the Congress to pass the legislation that investors were hoping would [...]
Basketball Hoop Ends Boy’s Joy Ride After Police Bullets Can’t Stop Him
A GMC Jimmy doing donuts in a parking lot after 1:20 a.m. caught the attention of local California Highway Patrol, whose officers shot at the boy driver during a chase. But it was a basketball hoop that saved the day.
Bakersfield.com reported the boy, 12, found keys in a car parked on Hageman Road and Calloway [...]
Drag Boat Racing Deaths Continue At Lake Ming
Lake Ming continues its string of racing deaths as Stephen Todd Rawleigh, 51, died Sunday morning while racing.
According to KGET, Rawleigh lost control of his 19-foot 427 Chevy engine flat bottom, causing it to flip at 110-115 miles per hour.
They reported Rawleigh was taken to Kern Medical Center where he died. They also said he [...]
Trees For Votes? No More Acids, Just Same Old Leaks As Big West Refinery On Road To Expansion
While hazardous leaks continue, Big West Refinery, that once proposed the use of hydrofluoric acids as a catalyst to produce more fuel, is now one step closer to expansion after the Kern County Planning Commission passed a vote 5-0.
The plan must pass a Board of Supervisors vote on Oct. 21.
ABC23’s Chris Van Horne wrote that [...]
Bakersfield Police Block Road: Bomb?
Officials: Man Found Shot To Death In Road
Kern County Sheriff’s Deputies said a man was found shot multiple times on Panama Road near Houston Road in Lamont.
Officials said the 32-year-old resident of Lamont was found just after midnight Sunday after reports of a man lying in the middle of the street.
The man, who has not been identified, died soonafter at Kern Medical Center.
