Bakersfield
The Bakersfield Lady Lions softball team ended its season with a loss to Naylor in the first round of the Class 1 District 1 tournament Oct. 12 at East Carter High School in Elsinore. Team members are, from left (front), Hannah Bean, Sam Deluna, Caroline Bentley, Alex Kowiti; (second row) Gretchen...
Brad Maynard has been appointed to the Bakersfield School board to fill the position of longtime member Bruce Bales, who has recently resigned from the board after changing jobs and making plans to move out of the district.
Bakersfield superintendent Dr. Amy Britt told the Times last week that the...
Bakersfield’s 2021 commencement exercises were held Friday, May 21, at the school.
Commencement address by Heather Smith
Bakersfield first grade teacher Heather Smith gave this year’s commencement address.
Smith congratulated the class and said she knew that this particular class has chosen to...
Bakersfield School District is gaining two new teachers for the upcoming 2020-21 school year.
Sherry Anstine has been hired as the new special education director and elementary special education teacher, and Jordan Grigg has been hired as the new high school agriculture teacher. Kirsten Jarvis is...
Bakersfield High School’s graduating seniors were awarded more than $300,000 in scholarships and other awards during the school’s 2020 graduation events. BHS counselor Trudy Summers announced that the following seniors earned these scholarships:
Brandy Belt: Class of 1962 $500, Jake Lashley $500...
Bakersfield school officials are currently gauging interest in having a summer school session in July for students in kindergarten through eighth grades. The proposed summer school session will run from Monday, July 6, through Friday, July 31.
Superintendent Amy Britt says so far, the school...
Several area high school juniors and seniors got to have their 2020 prom after all.
When the COVID-19 pandemic ended the 2019-2020 school year abruptly several weeks before the scheduled last day of the school year, many of the special events planned for this year’s graduating seniors, including...
The 2020 senior class graduated from Bakersfield High School Friday, May 22, in the Jerry Taylor Gymnasium. Loosely abiding by COVID-19 pandemic social-distancing guidelines, a limited number of family members gathered to celebrate a challenging finish of high school careers cut short by the...
The Bakersfield Elementary Story Time Facebook page is filled with Bakersfield teachers and other school employees reading stories to students through video. The group was created about a month ago as a way for Bakersfield students to find videos from all their teachers in one place. The educators...
Editor’s note: We hope to have updates about graduation events planned by Dora and Lutie high schools in next week’s Times.
The COVID-19 pandemic may have turned the world upside-down for the class of 2020, but despite the abrupt, unexpected and unplanned end of in-person classes through the...