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Bakersfield Observed: A blog about life, media, politics and people
Amgen Get ready for a day to remember Thursday when the Amgen Tour of California cycling race comes to town. Organizers are expecting as many as 30,000 people to view the race, which features some of the top pro cyclists in the world. The 18-mile time trial course starts on the bluffs across from Bakersfield College, follows Alfred Harrell Highway out to Hart Park and returns up the steep grade...
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Funeral services for May 16, 2012
TO OUR READERS The Californian provides free death listings using information supplied by local mortuaries. The in-depth notices that follow are paid obituaries and remembrances. These listings must be purchased by 2 p.m. To place an Obituary or In Loving Memory, call 395-7302. Full obituaries are posted at Bakersfield.com at 9 p.m.
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Just what the doctor ordered, but why so slow?
When there's a problem, just say so and fix it.If that were the county's regular M.O., perhaps it wouldn't have taken so long to make some painfully obvious corrections in how medications are doled out to children at the A. Miriam Jamison Center for abused and neglected kids.
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YMCA to close unless new funding is found
The YMCA of Kern County is poised to close June 1 unless a monetary miracle arrives to snatch the organization back from the brink of dissolution.
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Blood bank supporters look forward to project completion
Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood in a medical emergency. With the average car crash victim requiring as many as 100 pints of blood, that adds up fast.
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Bakersfield cyclist died of 'multiple traumatic injuries'
Although an official investigation continues, an autopsy has determined that the Bakersfield cyclist killed Sunday in a bicycle race near Yosemite National Park died from "multiple traumatic injuries," Mariposa County Assistant Coroner Andrea Stewart said Tuesday.







