Committee Assembling For Merle Haggard Honor
POSTED: 10:48 am PDT May 25, 2006
UPDATED: 11:02 am PDT May 25, 2006
OILDALE -- Kern County officials are creating a nine-member committee to recommend a street in Oildale to name after country music singer Merle Haggard.
The singer grew up in Oildale and was later part of making the Bakersfield Sound popular with Buck Owens.
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County officials scrapped plans to name a stretch of road in Bakersfield after Haggard after Oildale residents objected.
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