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The Shafter High Generals lost a regular season game for the first time in over a year as a rally against the Scots of Highland High came up just short, 22-16, in their home opener Friday night. The Generals spotted the Scots a big lead midway through the second quarter as the Generals offense just could not get anything going in the first half. The Scots opened the scoring on their second possession. The General defense stopped the Scots on their first drive, forcing them to punt. But, the...
The Richland School District is in the process of finding a new superintendent after the resignation of Dago Garcia at the end of last school year. In the interim, Rosa Romero has been named interim superintendent of the district. Romero, until recently, was pulling double duty as the principal of Richland Junior High and filling the superintendent's position as well. Romero said, "Just before the school year started we hired Francisca Garcia to fill the principal's position on a temporary basis...
The Shafter Generals opened their 2019 campaign with a victory against the Mira Monte Lions 37-22 on Friday night. It was not a pretty win, but it counts the same as a 40-point spread. Showing opening night jitters, sophomore quarterback Tyson Dohzier and the General offense had trouble getting on track in the first half, with several miscues that stalled promising drives. In the first minute of the game, Shafter gained big on the first two plays of the game before a fumble gave the Lions the...
A murder suspect was arrested in Shafter Tuesday night at an Atkinson Avenue residence by the officers of the Tulare Police Department. The department arrived at the location with a SWAT vehicle and several marked and unmarked vehicles to serve a search warrant at the residence. On Aug. 24, the Tulare Police Department received 9-1-1 calls about a male subject being shot several times near the intersection of West Prosperity Avenue and North E Street in Tulare. Officers arrived and observed...
Sequoia Elementary School welcomed their students back to school in style with a Race to the Finish event that had all of the students grab a race car and follow a road course to the finish line. It was a fun way to welcome the kids back and to give the parents and kids the information on the school's goals and curriculum as they made their way around the course....
ANNOUNCEMENTS NEW: Libraries closed -- All Kern County Libraries will be closed Monday, Sept. 2, for Labor Day. NEW: Wasco Shafter Elks car show -- Blaine Willard Memorial Car Show Saturday, Oct. 5, at 16694 Wasco Ave. Show 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call Jerry Bo at 661 747-8831. NEW: Free rides for students -- Kern Transit is offering free rides to all students enrolled at Bakersfield College with valid student ID, through finals week Saturday, Dec. 24. Shafter social media training -- Tuesday, Sept. 3, 5:3-8 p.m. at the Shafter...
This week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. Send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 406 Central Ave., Shafter 93263, or e-mail it to [email protected]. Winners will be revealed here next week, along with the facts behind this photo and a new one to challenge you. LAST WEEK: Shafter Wasco Irrigation District installs pipeline in 1956....
Aug. 19 Crystal Melgoza, 29, of Shafter, was arrested on an outside agency warrant. Aug. 20 Manuel Rivera, 24, of Shafter, was arrested for obstruction of a public officer, failure to drive on the right side of road, driving without driver’s license and DUI. Javier Antonio Parada, 36, of Shafter, was arrested for possession of controlled substance paraphernalia, forgery, forgery: intent to defraud, making or passing fictitious check and receiving known stolen property. Aug. 21 Salvador Flores Amaral, 37, of Shafter, was arrested for DUI: a...
This story was written for a California State University, Bakersfield, class assignment by Arnold Martinez, who grew up in Shafter. In today's fast paced world, it's easy to forget the major events that took place in the mid-20th century which changed the world forever. There are several estimates as far as the death tolls are concerned, but experts agree that the totals were between 65 million and 95 million worldwide, including civilians. History has been my passion since I was a boy; I've...
The Shafter Generals football team opened their season on Friday night with a victory over Mira Monte High and the rest of the Shafter High Generals sports teams got underway as well, with the volleyball teams splitting their matches and the cross country teams with solid outings. The Lady Generals volleyball team opened their season with a loss to North High School, but followed the defeat with a four-set victory over the Broncos of Kern Valley. The team had a solid season last year and have...
Friday Aug. 23 Mira Monte T W, 37-22 Friday Aug. 30 Highland H L, 22-16 Friday Sept. 6 North H 7:30 Friday Sept. 13 Atascadero T 3:00 Friday Sept. 20 Chavez T 7:30 Friday Sept. 27 Taft T 7:30 Friday Oct. 4 McFarland H-Homecoming 7:30 Friday Oct. 11 Arvin H 7:30 Friday Oct. 25 Kennedy T 7:30 Friday Nov. 1 Wasco H 5:00...
Hall Ambulance Service announced details recently about its implementation of the new ZOLL Autopulse, making it the largest deployment in North America. “This system will save many more lives than using manual CPR, allowing the blood flow to increase to about 30 percent to the brain,” said Bryan Pank, senior EMS account executive with ZOLL Medical Corp. The new systems have been placed into service on each Hall Ambulance Life Support and Basic Life Support ambulance in its 9-1-1 response are...
Philip James Penner was born on April 22, 1957, to Mary Lou (Williams) and John Lee Penner in Bakersfield. Phil was a preemie who grew into a strapping young man who loved to play tennis and work on his father's farm. He graduated from Wasco High School in 1974, the same year he also soloed in a Grumman Yankee aircraft. Phil graduated with a bachelor of arts in Christian education from International College in Honolulu. For the next 24 years, Phil taught English in Fukuoka, Japan, and worked in...
Phillip was born in Bakersfield on July 22, 1964, to Herman and Dorothy (Powell) Glasco. Phillip was married to Robin Noreen Jones, and together they raised their two children. He attended school in Shafter and was an alumnus of Wasco High School. Phillip was an active member of the FFA steer competition and participated in the Kern County Fair. He was truck driver for many years and worked with Haliburton, KVS and Mashburn Oil Field Transport. Phillip was a loving son, brother and father. He ne...
Mark Raymond Baize,[ 57, of Shafter, passed away Aug. 22, 2019. Peters Funeral Homes, Shafter....
Do you find it difficult to find peace in a chaotic world? At the rhythm that our world is spinning it is difficult to pump the brakes and simply breathe. I know that I have been there various times in my life. Peace is listed as a virtue of the fruit of the Spirit because God knew that we would face chaotic times. As the Holy Spirit does His perfect work in us, we can rest assured that we can find ourselves in tribulation but yet be at peace in our soul. Unless we don't find peace internally,...
The Board of Supervisors adopted the fiscal year 2019-20 budget on Tuesday. In addition, we also adopted a resolution declaring the end of the County of Kern’s fiscal emergency. By the end of this fiscal year – June 30, 2020 -- the county will have addressed the structural deficit in the General Fund that occurred with the large drop in the price of oil in 2016 which, in turn, resulted in a large decrease in the property tax from oil-producing properties. Progress has also been made in addressing and mitigating the deficit in the Fire Fun...
The daughter of the first couple to be married in Shafter has died at age 96. Roma Rockwell McCaffrey's parents, Woods Stone and Martha Buller, the first couple to be married in Shafter. She died Aug. 27. McCaffrey attended Maple School and Wasco High School, graduating in 1940. Her education continued with two years at Bakersfield College and two years at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was editor of the school paper. After graduation in 1944, she married Howard "Bud" Russell,...
#1 YARD SALE SHAFTER Yard Sale: 381 E. Euclid Ave., Shafter. Sat. 8/31, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Kids clothes, bed frame & lot of misc. 2 Family Garage Sale: 338 Oak St., Shafter. Fri. 8/30 & Sat. 8/31 from 7 a.m. to noon. Clothes, home décor and little bit of everything. #2 AUTO/MOTORCYCLES FOR SALE: 2005 Chrysler 300. $2,500. Has A/C, new brakes, rotors and lots of new parts. Call for more info, 661-340-1544. 2tf Got an older car, boat or RV? Do the humane thing. Donate it to the Humane Society. Call 844-335-2616 (Cal-SCAN) DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR BO...
Harold "Hal" Arthur Onsum, 62, of Bella Vista, Ark., passed away on Aug. 27, 2019, in his home after battling cancer. He was born in Bellingham, Wash., to Keith and Betty Onsum. He was a devoted Christian and loved studying the Bible. He mentored many people. After graduating in 1974 from Hoover High School in Fresno, he served in the Air National Guard and Air Force from November 1975 to November 1987. Hal moved to Shafter and started his law enforcement career at the Wasco Police Department...
