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MyspaceINDY GOES OLYMPIC: County planner Kathy Pfeifer started reading The Independent in 1982 when it was the News & Review, and she decided to bring a copy along during a recent backpacking trip to the Olympic Peninsula coast in Washington with her son Zac and friends/former S.B. residents Gilda and Ben Wheeler and Ara Erikson. She’s a fan of our cultural coverage, the Angry Poodle, and news. “It is the best local paper around, with quality research and writing,” said Pfeifer, but she admitted that The Indy has other uses, too: “Zac ended up using it to start big bonfires at night with driftwood.”
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County planner Kathy Pfeifer during a recent backpacking trip to the Olympic Peninsula coast in Washington with her son Zac and friends/former S.B. residents Gilda and Ben Wheeler and Ara Erikson.
Kathy Pfeifer
Thursday, July 8, 2010
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Such loyalty is much appreciated!
It is a common misperception that the Independent was in an earlier life the News & Review. Much less often, a long-time Santa Barbaran may think it evolved from the Santa Barbara Weekly.
Neither idea is correct, in fact, although in the past 24 years I've never developed a simple, pithy description of melding two rival news organizations.
It's safe to say the Santa Barbara Independent was born of those two earlier Santa Barbara newspapers, when in 1986 the ambitions and staff were merged, the older companies quietly retired.
And there's about five of us still working here after all those years.
randy (Randy Campbell)
July 8, 2010 at 6:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)