Bikes and Brides
Elings Park directors have agreed not to hold wedding receptions or host organized bike races on Elings Park South as part of a legal settlement hammered out between the park and attorneys for the County of Santa Barbara.
Year: 2011
Foster the People Sign Big, Release Small
The Merc hosts Sac-town bands, Alixandra teams up with Wetlands at Muddy Waters Café.
More Protection for Mobile Home Park Residents?
The county is moving forward on an ordinance it hopes to have in place later this year that would provide greater protection for people living in the county’s 18 mobile home parks.
New Public Defender Named
Raimundo Montes De Oca, who since October 2010 has served as the county’s interim public defender after Greg Paraskou retired, has been appointed to the position permanently.
Jane Russell Dies
Jane Russell, the iconic actress whose mammary majesty captured the obsessive imagination of reclusive mogul Howard Hughes and aroused the wrath of movie censors in the late 1940s and early 1950s, died this week in her Santa Maria home.
How Now Bow-Wow?
Das Williams to mayors on redevelopment funding: Blight my ass.
Finding the Most Fragile
Hundreds conduct definitive survey of Santa Barbara’s homeless.
Capps: ‘I’m Running’
Dem incumbent firm on 2012 as GOP veteran makes a move on her House seat.
Sibling Feud Hits Lundberg Survey Heirs
Jan Lundberg, of the famed gas-price-survey family, rode his bike to my house in the pouring rain to talk about a real-life Santa Barbara soap opera.
County Budget Shortfall Less Than Predicted
The most recent estimates out of the CEO’s office say that the county is facing a $72 million shortfall for the next fiscal year.
