By CHRIS MCGUINNESS
Kicking off his official bid to replace his current boss as Santa Barbara County’s 4th District supervisor in 2020, Bob Nelson echoed a sentiment that’s probably o...
By KASEY BUBNASH
A ruling by a federal judge on Feb. 13 overturned the 2017 decision to take Camp 4 into trust for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, pulling the land off the Chumash rese...
By KASEY BUBNASH
After more than a year of contract negotiations, Santa Maria's high school district and its teachers union reached a tentative agreement on Jan. 31, during a fact-finding hear...
By KASEY BUBNASH
Shaw’s Steakhouse and a neighboring furniture store, Sergio’s Furniture and Mattress, have both been closed since Jan. 3, when a fire that started just outside the...
• On Valentine’s Day, state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced legislation that would assist older and disabled adults with home modifications to help reduce the r...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
For young local professionals, specifically under age 40, the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce offers a unique networking opportunity every other month, starting with th...
By MARK HENRY
Wow! The Democratic Party is taking on a new face: young ambitious faces, many of them women and persons of color, arrayed in new ideas, grand plans, and endowed with a passio...
By Lucia Casalinuovo - Oceano
Last week, State Parks disclosed its proposed new general work plan for the management of Pismo State Beach and the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area.
Good...
By Larry Schiffer - Paso Robles
With the full admission of departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, and the seeming unwillingness of those agencies to make a fulsome attempt to reunite...
By KASEY BUBNASH
On average, it takes Lompoc High School wrestler Marlen Carrillo about 30 seconds to pin her opponents. And on average, she wins every match.
Coach Cheyenne Amaro sai...
By KASEY BUBNASH
When 17 students and adults were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a year ago, students across the nation staged school walkouts to...
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Well, well, well.
Looks like a little bird stuck its tiny talon in its teeny beak. It’s time for a reckoning! Only it wasn’t the one-legged barn owl from ...
By REBECCA ROSE
Bob Nichols was in his second year of architecture school at Cal Poly when he noticed a friend wearing an unusual ring.
The year was 1967. The friend told Nichols he ma...
By REBECCA ROSE
Not everything comes easy to writers. Not at first, anyway.
This is one of the central ideas tackled by playwright Tom Stoppard and his screenwriting partner Marc Norma...
By REBECCA ROSE
CORE Winery’s Second Saturday poetry series will feature Los Angeles poet Laurel Ann Bogen as well as Santa Maria poet Dorothy “Dot” Winslow.
Winslow rece...
By REBECCA ROSE
The Orcutt Children's Arts Foundation will honor The Voice contestant Pryor Baird, who originally hails from Orcutt, at its annual fundraiser on Feb. 23
The foundation's prim...
By ROB KRIDER
I consider myself a fairly confident man. I have confidence because I am a bit delusional. I choose to look the other way and ignore the things that might shake my confident w...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
Unlike fellow Minnesota-born musician Prince, soprano Maria Jette never changed her name to The Artist Formerly Known as Prince—or The Artist Formerly Known as Maria Jet...
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Todd Struass-Schulson (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, The Final Girls) directs this fantasy-comedy about Natalie (Rebel Wilson), a woman disenchanted by romance who f...
By REBECCA ROSE
I used to have a friend who delighted in collecting vintage toys and collectibles. He spent every spare penny he had snapping up everything from original Star Wars toys to com...
The Fabing-McKay-Spanne House hosts its next monthly open house event on Feb. 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Guests visiting this 1875 Victorian farmhouse can tour the museum, carr...
Orcutt Community Theater presents its production of The Elephant Man on Feb. 22 through March 9 at KDA Studios, located at 3546 Skyway Drive, Santa Maria. Performances are fro...
The Wildling Museum, the Elverhoj Museum, and the Solvang Parks and Recreation Department co-host a day trip to the Broad, a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, on Feb. 26...
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