Library Fee for Holds Rises to $1 Beginning July 7, 2011
The Santa Barbara City Council has approved an increase in the fee for hold requests of library materials.
Month: July 2011
Music Academy Season Preview Part II
Historically informed performance practices, American composers, and (possibly) candelabra upcoming this summer at the Music Academy of the West.
Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) Client Businesses Add to Economic Vitality and Culture of Historic La Arcada
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.
UCSB Senior Named 2011 Harriman Fellow
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.
Meatless Is a Treat for Us
Alchemy Arts Café, Adama, and Vegan Mario’s are S.B.’s three new vegan-minded eateries.
Morales Preliminary Hearing Begins
The truck driver is facing three felony vehicular manslaughter charges stemming from a fatal runaway accident.
Breadcrumbs Comes to Theater 150
Award-winning director Jessica Kubzansky will helm this drama about a writer struggling against the onset of Alzheimer’s.
Five Years Since the News-Press Meltdown Began
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.
Valuable Lompoc Farmland Conserved By Voluntary Agreement
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.
Hidden Wonders of Our Threatened Chaparral Forest
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.
