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RRG, SunPower woo community
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Coordination meeting evokes strong opinions, accusations of being agenda-driven
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Forest Service welcomes Memorial Day visitors
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Science teacher in running for Pepsi grant
An eighth-grade science teacher at Woodrow Wallace Middle School in Lake Isabella is in the running for $25,000 in grant money to purchase robotics curriculum, and she needs your vote.
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Local wildland firefighters clay-shoot fundraiser
On Saturday, April 24, 2010, the Fulton Hotshots, a local wildland firefighting crew on the Sequoia National Forest, and the Texas Canyon Hotshots on the Angeles National Forest, co-hosted a fund-raiser to benefit the Wildland Firefighter Foundation based in Boise, Idaho.
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PKRV to meet May 27 at South Fork Elementary
The next meeting of Preserve the Kern River Valley (PKRV) will be held at the South Fork Elementary School, in the cafeteria, on Thursday, May 17, at 6:30 p.m. Discussion will include fundraising ideas, our meeting with Ben McFarland and Bryan Williams last week, the Renewable Resources meetings last week, among other things.
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KRV Fire Safe Council meets to discuss fire prevention
The Kern River Valley Fire Safe Council held its quarterly meeting on Thursday morning. The council has been focusing on major fire-related issues, and is working to get grants. Right, David Brinsfield, of the Bureau of Land Management, gives the council an update on BLM’s recent fire activity, educational endeavors, community assistance, as well as an update on their ‘Land Use Plan.’ Representatives from the U.S. Forest Service, BLM, Kern County Fire Department, and the KRV Fire Safe Council attended the meeting, which was located at County Complex Building.
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Forest Service seeks public comment on boat launch facilities grant proposal
KERNVILLE, CA … The Forest Service is asking for public comments on a proposal to improve and modernize boat launching facilities, including new information signage at several recreation areas located at Lake Isabella. According to District Ranger Rick Larson, the agency is applying for a boat launch facilities grant through California Department of Boating and Waterways (Cal Boating) Local Assistance Grant Program to fund these improvements. The application is for state fiscal year funding 2011-2012.
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Silver City Ghost Town Marks Anniversaries
Twenty years ago this summer the J. Paul Corlew family purchased the historic Silver City Ghost Town in Bodfish from Dave and Arvilla Mills family. The Mills family purchased the site from “Wormie” Annie Sullivan and moved in most of the historic buildings in the late 1960’s. Mills trucked in over 20 buildings to the site from throughout the Kern River Valley’s mining camps and early settlements. Many of the buildings were saved just days before being scheduled to be torn down.
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Man reported missing in lower Kern River
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7 rafters rescued from Kern River
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Dramatic river rescue saves rafters
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Congratulations 2010 Graduates!
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Coordination effort meets resistance
Susan Barr
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Two Southern California men perish in OHV accident
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Kern and Tulare Counties Resource Advisory Commmittee meeting dates set
The Kern and Tulare Counties Resource Advisory Committee has scheduled a series of public meetings for June, July and August. The meetings are open to the public.
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Final year of planting for McNally Fire, start of Piute Fire reforestation effort
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Kern Valley Healthcare District Update
Susan Barr
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Kern Valley Sun
Man escapes early morning trailer fire
On Monday May 31, at approximately 5:02 a.m., a call was received by the Kern County Fire Department, for a travel trailer fire in the 2700 block of Erskine Creek Rd. in Lake Isabella.
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Large crowd gathers for 'Day of Remembrance'
Tom Varble and Smitty Glass place a wreath at the gravesite of a military veteran during a Memorial Day service at Kern River Valley Cemetery. A crowd of approximately 75 people attended Monday’s Day of Remembrance ceremonies.
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Rex Emerson, KRV Chamber of Commerce
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Eclectic work featured at 49th annual Art Show
Valerie Cassity
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Summit High hands out hardware
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Law Enforcement
Public Agency Reports 05/26/10
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Man arrested in Wofford Heights stabbing
Kern County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to a report of a stabbing in the 6500 block of Wofford Blvd., in Wofford Heights, Friday night. At about 10:00 p.m., deputies arrived on scene and located Ronald Haiglar, 28, suffering from several stab wounds. Haiglar told deputies the stabbing occurred at the Chevron gas station located on Wofford Blvd.
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Public Agency Reports 06/09/10
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