Have Your Say on Goleta’s General Plan
It’s almost the deadline to comment on the Good Land’s future.
Year: 2007
High School Survival Guide
The Senior File offers tips for freshmen in Santa Barbara and beyond.
Hatch & Parent to Merge With Major Colorado Firm
The Santa Barbara-based law firm of Hatch & Parent, veteran of regional land-use battles since 1968, will merge with the Denver-based firm of Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, and Schreck effective January 1. Hatch & Parent’s 30 attorneys will give the Brownstein group a combined headcount of more than 200 lawyers and a significant West Coast entree.
Borrowers Beware
Banking reform activists meet with SB-based Pacific Bancorp.
Zaca Fire Soot Casts Haze Over Weekend
Despite a blustery, windy weekend that filled the South Coast with ash and smoke, and a 750-acre fire in North County, Santa Barbara County emerged relatively unscathed from a weekend that saw Southern California go up in flames. More than 17 fires, from the Sedgwick Fire (seven miles northeast of Los Olivos) to the Mexican border, consumed hundreds of thousands of acres. Six deaths have been reported and a federal state of emergency declared by President George W. Bush.
SBCC Cancels Adult Ed Housing Series
Santa Barbara City College officials pulled the plug on an Adult Education series focusing on growth and urban planning.
Feds Slow in Regulating Dirty Ship Emissions
Air pollution watchdogs turn an eye to ships chugging through the Santa Barbara Channel.
Sierra Club’s Executive Director Carl Pope on Global Warming, Water, and Al Gore
Ethan Stewart speaks with head greenie and Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope.
Positively State Street
MEDICINAL MELODIES: The soul-soothing, mind-altering, and emotionally positive benefits to music are an overly effective medicine capable of providing some good, should its awe-inspiring power be harnessed the right way. It’s no wonder, then, that the Glendon Association-an S.B. nonprofit whose mission it is to empower the community by addressing the social problems of suicide, child abuse, violence, and troubled interpersonal relationships-will host its third annual Singers in the Round Benefit Concert.
Krispy Kanines
BURNED, CHURNED, AND UNLEARNED: I want to thank our friendly neighborhood oil giant, Venoco, for buying nine trombones and giving them to the Santa Barbara elementary school music program. If all businesses were so inclined, we wouldn’t have to fret about the future of public school music education as we do on nearly a monthly basis.
