Serving the community since 1922
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The city has lost one of its icons with the passing of Dick Witcher. Witcher was a three-sport athlete at Shafter High before focusing on football at Bakersfield College, eventually being drafted by the San Francisco Forty-Niners. Witcher would go on to help San Francisco make the playoffs and had a couple of game-winning plays that highlighted his eight-year career with the team. Dick was one of many Witchers to walk the halls of Shafter High between 1956 and 1978, more than...
