Sept. 4 community announcements, accomplishments
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By The Bakersfield Californian
Announcements
Baseball
Bakersfield Silver Bullets 8U travel team is holding open tryouts for players ages 7- or 8-years-old, intersted in joining our team. For more information, please call Marco (661) 817-6243 or email athleticgear77@gmail.com.
Basketball
National Junior Basketball Winter League Registration is open. Early registration is $160 until Sept. 15; $180 after. League practices start Nov. 3 and games begin Dec. 2. NJB's season runs November-February for third-eighth grade, boys and girls. Online registration is available at bakersfieldnjb.d4sportsreg.com. Early walk-up Registration is Sunday (Sept. 9) from 1-4 p.m. at Harbor Freight Tools, 3745 Rosedale Hwy. Evaluations and registration is September 23 from 1-4 p.m. or Oct. 7 from 1-4 p.m. at Standard Middle School. If you have any questions please call or email Jamie Viveros at (661) 496-0798 or viveros_j@yahoo.com.
Accomplishments
Baseball
The Bakersfield Assault went 5-0 in this weekend's Labor Day Diamond Classic in Raisin City. The Assault beat the Central California Grizzlies 10-4 in the championship game.
The Bakersfield Heat 10U won the USSSA Santa Maria Labor Day Classic this past weekend. The team went 5-0 in the tournament.
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The family of David Silva announced Friday it has filed its long-expected federal civil rights claims against the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, six sheriff’s deputies and a sergeant, two California Highway Patrol officers, the county and the state alleging excessive police force killed him.
SACRAMENTO -- The California High-Speed Rail Authority won approval Thursday from a federal railroad oversight board to start construction this summer on the first leg of what would be the nation's first bullet train.
The Panama-Buena Vista Union School District Tuesday night unanimously approved a contract of employment to hire Kevin Silberberg as its new superintendent.
A Bakersfield attorney’s rocky marriage, marked by a divorce suit and a history of loud, public arguments, reportedly erupted into violence early Wednesday morning when police say he turned a gun on his wife and fired.
A woman found dead in a southeast Bakersfield garage Tuesday was identified Friday as 18-year-old Mia Ramirez of Bakersfield.
After a search that lasted much of Tuesday afternoon, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on suspicion of homicide in connection with the discovery of a woman’s body in a southeast Bakersfield garage.
An inmate condemned for the fatal 2007 beating of a 90-year-old Bakersfield woman died, June 2 of natural causes, Corcoran State Prison announced Monday.