Arrested UCSB Student Returns
Yoon Choi, the UCSB student taken in by immigration agents last month, returned to campus this week after posting a bond allowing her to leave the detention facility where she was being held.
Year: 2007
Folk Rock at its Finest
The Snake The Cross The Crown return to Santa Barbara to celebrate the release of their new album, Cotton Teeth
Gevirtz School Awarded Grant
Professor George Singer received a grant that will create additional training for teachers of children with disabilities
Evening Stars
Carpinteria advertises itself as having the “world’s safest beaches”. The beach walking here is pretty cool.
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.
