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THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN - The Liberty girls tennis team entered the CIF Central Section Division I playoffs with the clear advantage. The Patriots earned the top seed in the bracket and had a first-round bye, getting the chance to wait for their eventual opponent to be determined.

THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN - There’s a tradition that's been developing over the past 17 years for all Liberty High football players, coaches, administrators, alumni, parents and fans at this time of year. And they share it with another school.

An up-and-coming architect invites into his home the hero who saved his life… who also happens to be a total stranger! The visitor is a hopeless ‘nerd’ who outstays his welcome leading to one riotous incident after another. From a time before cell phones, this side-splitting comedy is one of the funniest plays ever written. Will Willum and his friends manage to extricate Rick, the nerd, from their lives? Find out Thursday - Saturday, November 7-9 @ 7:30 pm in the Performing Arts Center We will also have a matinee performance at 2pm on the 9th. See you there!

Congratulations to the Liberty Band, Drumline, and Colorguard fo their 1st place in Division 5A this weekend. In addition, they won High Music, High Percussion, and High Auxiliary.

With their recent win over Stockdale, the Patriots go undefeated in the South Yosemite River League (SYRL). They are the highest seed from Kern County as we enter playoff season.

Six Liberty art students participated in the 26th annual Via Arte Italian Street Painting Festival at The Marketplace shopping center last weekend, winning in the student category for “Best Rendition of a Master” for their reproduction of Vertumnus, an oil painting made by Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1591.

An ASB sticker attaches to a student ID card and provides free admission for the student to all Kern High athletic events (except playoffs). It also provides discounts to school events such as Formal and Prom. Buy it now to get into all our volleyball, football, and basketball games for free. Students or parents can purhcase the sticker online or at the Finance Office.

The Liberty High School Parent and Family Center sponsored a college visit trip to the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Westmont College in Montecito earlier this month. Thirty-one students attended the trip, which also included some students’ parents and guardians who signed up through announcements at Back-to-School Night, Principal Kenny Seals’s weekly parent email, or the daily announcements, according to Parent and Family Center Liaison Carolina Cavazos.

Cal State University Bakersfield hosted more than 400 Kern High School District students on Friday, Oct. 4 for the Latino Heritage Conference, celebrating the beauty of Latino culture and the power of education. Thirty Liberty students, members of the KHSD LISTOS and PODER campus groups attended.

Mark Erickson is Liberty’s new athletic director, filling the position left by Tim Davis, who retired as the school's athletic director after 20 years. Mr. Davis has returned to the classroom at Liberty. Mr. Erickson has been a K-8 PE teacher and most recently an adaptive PE teacher for Kern High. He is passionate about and committed to supporting Liberty athletic programs.