While empty storefronts are still commonplace on our downtown streets, three businesses bolstered by the help of Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) are contributing to the local economic recovery.
Lucia Tapia, an undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara who is pursuing a double major in French and communication, has received a 2011 Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowship from the College of William & Mary and the U.S. State Department. She is one of only three recipients so honored. The others are Noura Elfarra of Stanford University and Elisabeth Ferland of Georgetown University.
Alchemy Arts Café, Adama, and Vegan Mario’s are S.B.’s three new vegan-minded eateries.
The truck driver is facing three felony vehicular manslaughter charges stemming from a fatal runaway accident.
Award-winning director Jessica Kubzansky will helm this drama about a writer struggling against the onset of Alzheimer’s.
What was once a proud, fine small-city newspaper cannot even be called a newspaper any longer, not because we’re not there but because journalistic standards don’t exist on De la Plaza any longer.
On June 29, 2011 the Hibbits Ranch on the eastern edge of the City of Lompoc was permanently dedicated to agriculture through a voluntary conservation agreement with the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County.
Stream flows dwindle without the rain-capturing chaparral and fish, frogs, turtles, and other creatures quickly disappear. Invasive annuals like thistle further proliferate, increasing fire hazard. Local chaparral forests harbor numerous special-status species including the: side-blotched lizard, late-flowered mariposa lily, silvery legless lizard, American badger, coast patch-nosed snake, Santa Barbara honeysuckle, California newt, and elusive ringtail.
Sunburst Sacred Earth Institute hosts day of kids’ activities.
The 27th Annual Central Coast Wine Classic returns.
