Video: Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Shoppers Go Nuts

Fresh & Easy Launches Hip New Grocery Look For Bakersfield
Supermarkets say they’re not copying them — though they likely are. Some people complain the budget-friendly small family portions are too small. They don’t appear to be. The overall simplicity of the market with its skylights and friendly green trim is all-too inviting. You can feel the openness.

And more: The green carts look inviting like they could fit an entire produce section. There’s even a mysterious head chef who often pokes his head out of a Manhattan Beach location to share new creations and listen to what kinds of foods people want concocted in his secret kitchen.

And now they’ve invaded Bakersfield.

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Caution: Locals Of Eastern Indian Descent Targeted By Fake Police

The Bakersfield Police Department said there have been three incidents over the past two days where people of eastern Indian descent have been targeted by at least one person in a car impersonating a police officer and performing fake traffic stops.

The Bakersfield Police Department said they are requesting the community’s assistance in identifying and locating the the people and the vehicle involved in the occurrences in southwest Bakersfield.

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Take A Ride On Bakersfield’s New Electric Trolley

The trolley gave a lurch as it pulled onto Truxtun Avenue from where it sat parked outside the Borton & Petrini building. Don’t blame the driver. Trolley cars haven’t been seen in downtown Bakersfield in 30 years.

The grey November drizzle couldn’t damper the inauguration of Bakersfield’s renovated 1994 electric trolley. Even Mayor Harvey Hall’s snapping of the trolley bell chain after an initial ringing couldn’t put a dent in the happy ending to a 30-year local absence of trolley cars.

And there was fanfare too. City officials gathered as well as PG&E dignitaries Cindy Pollard and Brent Rush, Downtown Business Association Chairman Bob Bell, BARC representatives and others. They spoke about the difficulties of string-pulling involved in getting a trolley for Bakersfield.

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While City Wraps Trees, Just How Many Beavers Live Near Riverwalk?

Take a walk down the Kern Recreational Bike Path near the Park at Riverwalk and you will feel like its Christmas already. In fact, take a walk through the park itself. There are so many trees wrapped like candy you might feel like you’ve slipped into a Willy Wonka dream.

It’s all to prevent damage from a family of beavers who live in a creek just east of the park.

While the creek isn’t currently filled with water, it is filled with muddy beaver trails, weedy water-borne ivy-like plants and a home of logs and sticks protruding from the side of the creek bed.

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