In celebration of “Chihuahuas de Mayo” Santa Barbara County owners of Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes will be able to get their dogs spayed or neutered for free during the month of May, 2012.
I found Barney Brantingham’s column “Multimillionaires Living in Poverty” interesting because my mother, Patricia C. Rosen, was subjected to the same conservators network as Margaret (Peggy) Figg-Hoblyn.
Since I, like many others, regard The Santa Barbara Independent as an infallible guide to sacred scripture, I was surprised that Nick Welsh reported that the Women Priests had Mary Magdalene called “the apostle to the apostles” in “the Gospel according to John.”
A little over two months have passed since I introduced the Invest in Santa Barbara 2012 proposal to the voters for their consideration.
City Council approves $600,000 study to restore the area.
The City Council’s Ordinance Committee continued crafting legislation that would ban single-use plastic bags from grocery stores and other non-restaurant food retailers while imposing a 10-cent fee on paper bags.
The Board of Supervisors this week heard a series of possible steps that the County Fire Department could take to improve services.
SBCC has released dates and times for public forums with the school’s four finalists in the president/superintendent search.
Santa Barbara Unified School District this week offered an early retirement package equal to 75 percent of employees’ final base salary, enticing 57 district veterans to enroll.
At the urging of Occupy Santa Barbara protesters, District Attorney Joyce Dudley sent a letter to Attorney General Kamala Harris asking her to form a statewide task force composed of DA offices to investigate and prosecute wrongdoing on the part of lending institutions leading up to and during the foreclosure crisis.
