Local shopping and festive activities in Seven Oaks. By Thanksgiving, the gift list already has a growing list of names on it: the coworker, the December birthday, the friend who watched your pup over the weekend, and maybe the kid who discovered skating over the summer. This year, we invite you to clear your list…

The season that gathers a valley also gathers a neighborhood. As fall arrives, October gives us the first taste of the holiday season, starting with harvest across Kern County. Trucks stacked with bins pull onto Taft Highway before sunrise and the almond hullers run past dark. Table grapes and pomegranates are picked, the first citrus…

With its first residents arriving this fall, Westbridge Seven Oaks is a community in the making, bringing new homes, an established church, a future school and park, and a long-planned trail connection into view. On a map, the Stephan J. DeBranch Memorial Trail reads as a single line, more than three miles from Buena Vista…