Patrick Nesbitt, wealthy entrepreneur, landowner, and polo enthusiast who argued the Montecito Water District specifically targeted his nearly 20-acre property when it changed the designation from agricultural to residential use and thus increased rates on his estate, lost in court on 6/29.
Councilmembers take baby step toward funding new headquarters for cops.
John Bridley, the city’s waterfront czar for the past 15 years, will retire this week after a City Hall career spanning 30 years, and will be replaced—at least on an interim basis—by Scott Riedman, business manager of the Waterfront Department for the past 10 years.
Ottmar Liebert gears up for a stop at SOhO, while Jeff Bridges and The Mountain Goats gave us a decidedly killer night of music last Friday.
Economic hard times have forced Santa Barbara City councilmember Grant House to close up the sewing machine shop he’s run for the last 34 years
Five years after the News-Press Meltdown and it’s still smoking.
I love it: a Mecca of masterpieces challenging The Getty, old masters peering down at the ocean on one side, the city and mountains on the other.
Rob loved to call women princesses, whether they were at Alpha or people he saw while he was out in the community with his Cruisers. He waved at them and told them they looked like princesses and to “Have a princess day!”
The reasons behind the GOP’s early TV hit on Lois Capps.
We’re proud to announce the winners of The Indy’s second annual Sizzling Summer BBQ & Cocktail contest.
