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As I mentioned in my last column, I would like to take the opportunity to talk about how our governmental system works in Kern County. I lived and worked in Boston for ten years. When I moved back to Tehachapi I had trouble figuring out the difference between the city and the county. Back East, all land is in some municipality or other, with the exception of forest or parkland. Everyone lives in a city, town, village, or hamlet, with its own government. There are small parcels of unincorporated land here and there, but they are rare. In Kern County, much of our land is unincorporated. We have 11 incorporated cities in the county: Arvin, Bakersfield, California City, Delano, Maricopa, McFarland, Ridgecrest, Shafter, Taft, Tehachapi, and Wasco. Rosamond, Lamont, Mojave and others we might think are cities are actually unincorporated areas, as are the Tehachapi area Community Service Districts (CSDs) such as Bear Valley Springs, Stallion Springs and Golden Hills. Just because...
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