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Bakersfield boy finalist in design contest
Bakersfield resident Douglas McGuire, 11, has been selected as a top-five finalist in the second annual nationwide Ford Funny Car Design Contest.
McGuire estimated his design took about half an hour to make using colored pencils and No. 2 pencil.
The... - Posted on September 10, 2009
Meet Bakersfield's 'Top Model'
If ambition could be measured in inches, Cal State Bakersfield student Sundai Love surely would tower over her competitors on "America's Next Top Model," which begins its 13th cycle on The CW network Wednesday.
Alas, drive and guts might add characte... - Posted on September 10, 2009
Lost poodle reunited with family after picture published
A lost dog has been reunited with his family with a little help from East High football players photographed with him for Thursday's Californian.
A photographer was on the practice field earlier this week taking pictures for the newspaper's annual hi... - Posted on August 28, 2009
Photo technique in bloom
Flowers are beautiful. People like photographs of flowers, but there is so much to consider: how to frame the photo, how to get a sense of shape, how to avoid over-exposing.
So many floral photographs reflect the sunlight so brightly that it detracts... - Posted on August 28, 2009
Steam-powered car breaks record
After struggling for more than a month with frustrating technical problems, the British Steam Car Challenge broke the land speed record for a steam-powered car Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in eastern Kern County.
Driver Charles Burnett III achie... - Posted on August 28, 2009
Toothy terror strikes River Walk trees
The trees or the beaver? The beaver or the trees?
It's a question to bedevil even the most ardent of nature lovers and one being debated yet again after a weekend bender by the infamous bike path beaver made toothpicks of a pair of good-size cottonwo... - Posted on August 28, 2009
ICE CREAM: Winners share wish to get to know neighbors better
What goes well with ice cream? Neighbors. Dreyer's has stuffed the freezers of five Bakersfield families, winners of a writing contest meant to promote neighborliness. The idea was for the winners to invite folks to an ice cream block party so that t... - Posted on August 11, 2009
It's stripe one, stripe two for Bakersfield skunk
The jokes started rolling through Dave Stringer's head almost immediately. "I thought it might be the rare and elusive 'yellow-striped Bakersfield skunk,'" he said with a chuckle. He had to make sure.
So Wednesday evening, Stringer diverted from his ... - Posted on August 5, 2009
Bakersfield family on years-long sea adventure
Bombarded by dire economic news and our consumer confidence shaken, who wouldn't want to get into a sailboat and head off into a Pacific Ocean sunset?
That's exactly what Rich and Lori Boren and their two young children, Amy and Jason, did last Septe... - Posted on August 5, 2009
Raising the bar for people with disabilities
People complain. That's what they do. If it's not a national sport, it should be.
If it were, the podium would be packed. People would be falling off the back of the stage. The medal company would have to work 24/7 to churn out all the blue ribbons.
... - Posted on August 5, 2009
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