Evening Stars
Carpinteria advertises itself as having the “world’s safest beaches”. The beach walking here is pretty cool.
Month: June 2007
News-Presser Scott Steepleton Lets Lawyers Do His Talking
When The Indy contacted the associate editor directly about his job, the News-Press‘ attorneys responded with threats. We’ll take it as a “no comment.”
Contests Asks for Residents’ Favorite Spots
Winning photos and videos could earn their takers vacation packages.
Cyclists Ride for AIDS Through SB County
Motorists are advised to take caution.
Write On!
Paul Wellman Welcome to the final week of voting for the Almost Independent writing contest. We’ve slowly whittled away contestants
Cash for Kids’ Healthcare
At the Board of Supervisors’ meeting Tuesday, supervisors Salud Carbajal, Joe Centeno, and Janet Wolf charged staff with searching the county’s budget for $1 million to provide health coverage to some of the county’s uninsured children. A 2005 Children’s Health Initiative report stated that up to 16,000 children-14.1 percent of all underage county residents-lack insurance.
Community Academy Reunited
If the tooth fairy had to pay up for all the tooth-pulling that went on at the Santa Barbara School Board meeting this week, she would be looking for a low-interest loan right about now. For more than five hours Tuesday night, boardmembers-playing one person down due to Annette Cordero’s absence-struggled to decide the fate of a plan to merge the full student population of the Santa Barbara Community Academy elementary school onto the sparsely populated La Cumbre Junior High School campus.
Mobile Home Mogul Muzzled
The City of Goleta stood fast against an attempted end-run around its mobile home rent control ordinances-namely Daniel Guggenheim’s bid to subdivide his Rancho Mobile Home Park and sell its 150 parcels for about $250,000 each. It is a strategy that has been used successfully by park owners throughout California, led by activist Sam Zell.
Veterans’ Clinic Shrinks
When a long-awaited, new and upgraded Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic opens in Santa Maria this summer, Santa Barbara’s own VA outpatient clinic on Calle Real will begin incrementally sending its specialty care services there, until only general and mental healthcare remain in a pared-down version of the 27-year-old health center. VA officials say the transition will take about two months.
Santa Maria Wine Country
Santa Maria Valley, long considered one of the premiere wine growing regions along California’s southern Central Coast for pinot noir, chardonnay, and cool-climate syrah, has formed its own vintners association. The association is following in the footsteps of associations founded in recent years in other county appellations, including the Santa Rita Hills Winegrowers Alliance and the Santa Ynez Valley Wine Trail.
