Photo Courtesy of Kern Valley Museum Crews load the Vaughn School bell onto a truck for transport to its new home at the Kern Valley Museum.
By D. Beasley
For decades in the early 20th century, a bell summoned students to the tiny Vaughn School in Bodfish. In a sign of how rural Kern County was in those days, the school had 22 students, according to the Kernville Union School District, which acquired and closed Vaughn in 1950. The 380-pound bell had a second life at Highland Chapel Methodist Church, placed on a 15-foot stand in the 1950s. When the Highland Chapel property went up for sale after its merger with Kernville United Methodist Church, the house of worship donated the bell to the Kern Valley Museum in Kernville in November.
Did not ‘accuse anybody of fiscal malfeasance or misappropriation,’ lawyer says
An ongoing investigation at California’s Bakersfield College could result in the firing of two history professors who are active in a faculty organization that promotes freedom of thought.
Matthew Garrett and Erin Miller are accused of making defamatory statements about two other professors related to the funding of “social justice” initiatives.
The “administrative determination” report by Christopher Hine, general counsel with the Kern Community College District, found that Garrett and Miller “engaged in unprofessional conduct” at a Sept. 12, 2019 event.
Hine’s report claims the duo (
above) accused Oliver Rosales and Andrew Bond of improperly using grant monies at the Social Justice Institute, a “non-partisan” college organization co-founded by President Sonya Christian and Bakersfield Mayor Harvey Hall.