Report Says California Housing Must Grow to Accommodate Population
A California Department of Housing and Community Development report released in June says that California must build 220,000 new homes
Year: 2007
Supermarket Battle Lines
Dreading a repeat of the bruising, five-month long 2003 strike, more than two-thirds of employees at Vons, Albertsons, and Ralphs nevertheless agreed to walk away from their jobs if the union asks them to. Now, with some misgivings, they are waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Capritto to Replace Turnbull as SBHS Principal
Santa Barbara High School will get its third principal in four years. In a 3-1 vote with one abstention, the
Fire Season ’07 Roars to
Life in Los Padres
Shortly after 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, it was obvious to anyone looking toward the mountains that a fire was raging in the back country of Santa Barbara. With the soon-to-set sun turned an ominous blood orange and the telltale swirl of golden smoke clouding the horizon along the Santa Ynez Mountain range, fire crews from Santa Barbara County and the U.S. Forest Service rushed to a stretch of the Santa Ynez River near Paradise Road in the Los Padres National Forest as ash began to fall in the foothills and portions of downtown Santa Barbara.
Introducing S.B. Foresters’ Powerhouse First Baseman, Rebel Ridling
Big-time baseball players have been known to come out of small towns in Oklahoma. Most notably, Mickey Mantle grew up in Commerce, a spot on the map in the northeast corner of the state.
NP Meltdown Anniversary
It’s Been Quite a Year: Anyone who’s been paying attention knows what’s happened at the News-Press since the fateful meltdown day of July 6, 2007. The question is: What now?
Quiz: Book Worm
Quiz: Book Worm
New Study Predicts
Greater Sea-Level Rise
Record summer heat waves, melting glaciers, and droughts offer compelling evidence that rapid climate change is happening, and media attention on the subject of global warming has been extensive for the past couple of years, from Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth to the report published by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this spring.
Free Flicks at Wildling
The Free Friday Flick film series is underway at the Wildling Museum in Los Olivos this summer, so head out there on July 6 for the Denali National Park episode from Bruce Reitherman’s The Living Edens series. It starts at 7:30 p.m. See wildlingmuseum.org.
Read All About It
Jan Baross has been a painter, teacher, filmmaker, playwright, film critic, travel writer, cartoonist, and photographer; now, the Oregon-based Jill-of-all-trades is trying her hand at fiction writing.
