The Division 1 board seat on the powerful Kern County Water Agency came full circle Tuesday after Jay Kroeker was appointed to fill the vacancy left by Ted Page who resigned early last month. Kroeker is a son-in-law of the late Fred Starrh who held that same seat for 28 years before being beaten by Page in an upset election in 2010. Starrh died in 2019. Kroeker is a partner in Starrh Farms, which operates mostly in northwestern Kern County. Their lands are in the Lost Hills Water District and Belridge and Semitropic water storage districts, which get water from the State Water project, and the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District, which holds a federal contract for water from the Central Valley Project.