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This marks the 10th straight year that our Year in Pictures issue is dominated by the photography of Paul Wellman, who was first hired by this newspaper in 2001, became the staff photographer in 2002, and is still perfecting the grueling selection process required of this week’s visual offerings.
After graduating from Northern Arizona University with degrees in English and French, Emily Carlson returned home to Santa Barbara and waited patiently for an internship position to open at The Santa Barbara Independent.
It’s been a career of conflicts for the award-winning Santa Barbara–based journalist Kevin McKiernan, who’s covered wars in all corners of the world since the 1970s.
Last Thursday was the last day on the job before The Santa Barbara Independent’s art director, Sarah Wilkinson, took off for maternity leave, but the timing was perfect: Alden Phelan Taugher was born to Sarah and husband, Damon Taugher, the next morning around dawn at Cottage Hospital.
When we created the Holiday Homebrew Hoedown — The Santa Barbara Independent’s first-ever competition between Santa Barbara’s best amateur beer makers — we never anticipated the creative wave that would flood our offices, where 20 entries are now awaiting judging, including ales aged for 11 months on pine cones, imperial red beers enlivened with juniper berries, and sugar plum saisons.
The Santa Barbara Independent crew takes the end-of-year holiday season seriously and kicked it off in proper fashion last Thursday with our annual Thanksgiving potluck, where the newspaper’s resident chefs come to shine.
The Santa Barbara Independent’s extended family grew again on October 27, when Caroline Walker Moreno was born to advertising client representative Cynthia Walker, a native of Brazil who has been working at the newspaper since September 2005.
When Aly Comingore took over as The Santa Barbara Independent’s pop culture editor in 2008, we tossed her straight into our newest fire: the creation of a yearly guide to Santa Barbara bands, whose fifth annual Comingore-curated incarnation starts here.
The newspaper’s annual costume contest always brings out the freaky side of the staff.
After some disappointing outings over the last few years, The Santa Barbara Independent’s resident foursome managed to eke out a victory this week at La Cumbre Country Club, where Todd Smith, Chris Meagher, Matt Kettmann, and Laszlo Hodosy (shown here on the 13th hole) tallied the best net score during a golf tournament to benefit the UCSB Men’s Basketball program.
