BY CAMILLIA LANHAM
Santa Barbara County 1st District Supervisor Salud Carbajal attended his fourth and final face-to-face meeting with President Barack Obama’s climate task force on July...
BY CAMILLIA LANHAM
A solar facility with the capacity to power 16,000 homes is proposed for 320 acres of agricultural land in the Cuyama Valley. This would be the first such renewable energy pro...
BY AMY ASMAN
After 10 days of searching, local law enforcement agents recovered from Cachuma Lake the body of 22-year-old Isaiah Sanchez on July 21.
Around midday, a group of people on a ...
BY AMY ASMAN
Sgt. Sandra Brown—Sheriff Bill Brown’s challenger in the June 2014 election and former head of the county’s coroner’s bureau—is now overseeing ba...
The Sun incorrectly reported the number of years Five Mualimmak, co-producer for the Solitary web series, spent in solitary confinement in the July 17 cover story “Trans...
BY RHYS HEYDEN
As water becomes scarcer every day in dried-up San Luis Obispo County, the cracks are starting to show—literally and metaphorically.
As the water level steadily drops...
BY AMY ASMAN
The philanthropic spirit is alive and well over at Marian Regional Medical Center.
Throughout the month of July, the Marian Foundation received two grants totaling $250,000...
MONDAY, JULY 28
• The South County Advisory Council has its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Nipomo Community Services District Headquarters, 148 S. Wilson St., Nipom...
• The California Water Resources Control Board recently released a draft Ocean Plan Amendment known as the Desalination Policy, which will set statewide standards for sea...
BY HELEN ANN THOMAS
It’s official. It’s on the way.
Several years in the planning, a Santa Maria Valley Native Plant Garden is about to be installed—not all at once—aro...
BY EMMA FUHS
Tucked amid the green of the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, Solvang is a quaint destination that appeals to locals and tourists alike. Surrounded by rolling hills and vineyard...
BY JORDAN CUNNINGHAM
The Central Coast’s energy industry is vital to the economic health of our region, producing thousands of jobs and millions per year in tax revenue. Hydraulic fracturing...
Richard D. Hall - Santa Maria
Andy Caldwell and other proponents of fracking ignore vital questions about the hazards of this new technology that extracts crude oil and natural gas.
New York State has imp...
Donna Beal, MPH, MCHES - Santa Maria
Public health—the practice of preventing disease and promoting health—effectively targets environmental factors and health behaviors that contribute to chronic con...
BY KRISTINA SEWELL
For all Don Willis knew, his football career was over at age 8 when he was cut from his competitive youth team. He shied away from the sport until his eighth grade year when...
BY CHARLETTE DAIGNEAULT
Many professional athletes are thought by others to live their day-to-day lives completely dedicated to training for their sport without room in their schedule for much else...
BY CAMILLIA LANHAM
Police explorer teams made up of young people between the ages of 14 and 20 from California and Hawaii converged at Ripon High School in Modesto for the fourth annual Centra...
BY CAMILLIA LANHAM
The beginning of summer didn’t mark the end of school for more than 200 Guadalupe students. Instead, those students committed to spending the first few weeks of their su...
BY ERIN KINIRY
In case you haven’t heard the totally tubular news, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are BACK, and the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum wants in on the slang-driven, ...
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You’ve heard of Chipotle, right? The chain has made a lot of headlines for the quality of its food and its progressive company ethics.
But still, you might not have h...
If you gave someone a random piece of advice, what would it be?
BY JOE PAYNE
For the past two decades, the Santa Maria Civic Theatre has offered its Summer Fairy Tale program free to the community. The production is significant because it opens up pl...
BY JOE PAYNE
The monumental influence Rodgers and Hammerstein have had on American musical theater is staggering. So many popular tropes and styles were cemented by the duo; their influe...
BY JOE PAYNE
The Wildling Museum has announced the 2014-2015 season of Natural History Field Classes with Fred and Larry, a series that takes place throughout Santa Ynez Valley and Santa B...
BY JOE PAYNE
The Library Foundation in Lompoc is offering its annual Concerts on the Library Lawn series during the month of August. The shows happen the first three Saturdays in August fr...
BY JOE PAYNE
The Santa Maria Arts Council is preparing its second annual Birdhouse Fundraiser event for the Autumn Arts Grapes and Grains festival and needs artists to paint donated birdho...
BY JOE PAYNE
Michaels Arts and Crafts offers an Intro to Paper Crafting class for free on July 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. An Intro to Jewelry Making class is a free event happening July 29 from 6...
BY ARIEL WATERMAN
Last month, my column was about traveling with my husband, The Brit, and our grandson, the Britween. For good measure, I wrote of the many travails of traveling with my moth...
BY JOE PAYNE
The Grover Beach-based Americana country rock group Occasional Mustache has debuted its new album Hard to Keep a Good Man Down. This is the group’s second album, and i...
Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz are a married couple, Jay and Annie, who, to spice up their flagging sex life, decide to make a sex tape. Unfortunately, when they wake up the nex...
BY WENDY THIES SELL
Three summers ago, while all eyes were on Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, sweating it out behind the scenes was burgeonin...
The Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department and PLAY Inc. are collaborating for a series of free family movie screenings in local parks at sundown during the summer. The m...
The Obon Festival is an annual cultural celebration organized by locals of Japanese descent. The event includes traditional food, music, and dance, including the Bon Odori dan...
PCPA Theaterfest always enjoys presenting a piece of classic stagecraft, such as the current production of Oklahoma! But the world-class theater arts conservatory is also dedi...
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