CHP Notes Low Occurrence of DUIs Over Holiday
The California Highway Patrol reported fewer overall driving-related arrests and citations statewide over the past Labor Day weekend
Year: 2007
El Camino Elementary Teacher Accused of Molestation
While police withhold details of the investigations, school officials declare “complete surprise” at the allegations.
Goleta Teacher Accused of Molesting Student
Martin Corral, a teacher at Goleta’s El Camino Elementary School, was arrested 8/30 for allegedly molesting an 11-year-old.
Lompoc Wind Farm Could Break Ground this Spring
Compared to past contentious land-use issues in Santa Barbara County, the $120 million Lompoc Wind Farm Project appears to be soaring on an updraft. Despite criticism from some who claim the county has not researched thoroughly enough how the proposal could impact its surroundings, the first-ever wind energy project on the Central Coast may be only eight months from breaking ground.
Urinetown, the Musical presented by PCPA.
Food, water, and shelter might be the top triumvirate of human needs, but it’s the urge to relieve oneself that requires the most immediate attention every morning, noon, and night. So when the right to pee gets privatized and priced-as is the premise of this happily wacky, intelligently humorous, and satirically self-referential musical-people get pissed, and revolution isn’t far away.
California Federation of Interpreters Goes On Strike
Members of the California Federation of Interpreters working in the court systems of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties went on strike as of 9/5.
UCSB Focuses On Mental Health at Orientation
UCSB included information about the Virginia Tech massacre in their orientation material.
Brush Fire Stops Traffic on 101
Traffic halted on both sides of Highway 101 just south of Gaviota on the evening of 9/3 due to a brush fire in the area.
Adult Ed Classes Help You Go Green
Anyone who’s ever traveled the Moroccan desert, where sirocco winds blow plastic bags out of landfills to hang in scraggly shards from bushes and trees like some eerie doomed forest, never forgets it. However, living in Santa Barbara where there aren’t such vivid reminders of pollution, it’s easy to slip into living “green” when convenient. We mean well when we toss just about anything in the recycling bin (dragging those used batteries to the proper drop-off is a pain).
Artist Bob Dickey’s de-Wine Inspiration
I met Bob Dickey a few years ago and identified him immediately as an artist. Dickey can be in a room full of people, all of them milling about, all immersed in their conversations about what it is they do for a living, or where they plan to vacation, and there will be Dickey : entranced by a certain slant of light coming through a living room window and illuminating a vase.
