Month: February 2006

Cover Story By Georgia Freeman

It Takes a Village

I knew as soon as I got engaged that I wanted to have my wedding in Santa Barbara. Though I had moved to New York a few years before, Santa Barbara was the place I returned to when I needed to reconnect with my roots and my sense of self. My fiance loved spending time in Santa Barbara too, having fallen for my hometown the first time he visited my mother’s house and looked out the window at the Montecito hills sloping down to the Pacific. So with his enthusiastic approval, I set about planning our wedding.

Cover Story By Indy Staff

Weddings by Design

It can be easy to forget, living in Santa Barbara, just how beautiful our city is. A drive to work is still a drive to work, even when it includes cityscape views and a skyline edged with lush, green mountaintops. Unless, of course, your business is directly linked to our city’s bounty.

Bottles & Barrels By Sao Anash

Raising a Glass

Wines and weddings are a perfect match. There are few ways more appropriate to celebrate one’s nuptials with family and friends than by raising a glass to future joys. Before you decide upon your wedding wines, there are a few guidelines that may help you to navigate the sometimes choppy waters of wedding reception planning.

Sports By Mark DeVaugh

Better Late Than Never

The celebrating came early for this team. While Dos Pueblos went about its warm-ups, the other side of the soccer field featured a pre-game hugs-and-flowers ceremony that honored the five San Marcos seniors who were playing their final regular season home game.

Sports By Alastair Bland

Cycling Race

Beginning Sunday, February 19, the excitement of a bicycling stage race will zip 600 miles through California from north to south. Much in the style of the very famous race that covers France each summer and is usually won by an American, the Amgen Tour of California will be divided into eight leg-busting days, or stages.

By Martha Sadler

Green Zone

Introducing a color-code system to designate pesticide toxicity hazards in city parks, the Santa Barbara City Council adopted its transitional plan for making 98 percent of city parklands pesticide-free, or “green zones.”

By Amy R. Ramos

Capital Roundup

As part of its mid-year budget review, Santa Barbara city staff announced some $67 million worth of capital improvements to be completed this year, with another $157 million currently in the design process, to be funded over several years.

By Indy Staff

School Competition

With enrollment declining at Carpinteria High School for the sixth year in a row, new Carpinteria Unified School District Superintendent Paul Cordeiro has undertaken an aggressive campaign to attract new students from outside the district.

By Indy Staff

Beach Fees

Beachgoers that frequent Goleta’s Campus Point received a shock last week when feeding the parking meters in the nearby UCSB parking lot. To many, it seemed the parking fees had inexplicably doubled overnightfrom 25 cents for 10 minutes to 25 cents for five minutes.

By Indy Staff

Otter Freedom

Santa Barbara City Council members voted 6-1 this week to approve a final position on the controversial Southern Sea Otter Management Program.

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