By Spencer Cole
It was a night for the history books. And it definitely wasn't aliens.
First, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted out of Earth's atmosphere from Vandenberg Air Fo...
By Kasey Bubnash
After more than a year of negotiations, the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District and its Faculty Association declared an official impasse on Oct. 3.
The main st...
By Spencer Cole
City administrators and council members tried to clear the air permanently in Solvang by tightening its smoking regulations.
On Oct. 9, the Solvang City Council gave ta...
By Kasey Bubnash
Students and staff at Kermit McKenzie Intermediate School in Guadalupe were placed on lockdown for an hour Oct. 9 after law enforcement discovered a social media post threate...
By Joe Payne
While internet ads, mailers, and radio commercials inundate voters with information about state propositions and national candidates, there's still a number of local ballot me...
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a statement after the Senate confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as next ...
A new company in Solvang is offering potential customers a chance to step into an alternate reality.
Jamie Baker, the owner and operator of Space VR, a virtual reality video ...
By REP. SALUD CARBAJAL
One of the greatest moments of my life was the day I took my oath of allegiance and became a citizen of this great nation. When I was elected to serve the Central Coast in Con...
By Libby Breen - Orcutt
Congressional Republicans, by not considering attempted rape a deterrent for elevating a man to the Supreme Court, made their daughters, sisters, and granddaughters marks for...
By Colleen Kuykendall - Santa Maria
My respect for your paper has quickly diminished based on your article about Father Timothy Lane published Oct. 4, 2018 ("Local priests named in California sexual abuse r...
By Lee Heller - Summerland
When you see the long list of initiatives on your ballot, don't overlook Proposition 12 at the end. A yes vote levels the playing field for California's farmers and improves t...
By Ed Carcarey - Santa Maria
This is the first time in my life that I am willing to promote a tax. I like Measure U for four reasons: This is local money that stays here for local programs–Sacrament...
By Ron Fink - Lompoc
John Linn, who was the object of two historic Lompoc election losses to his opponent, is endorsing a triad of Lompoc City Council members who have consistently supported his a...
By Kasey Bubnash
No matter what happens on the football field, St. Joseph High School head coach Pepe Villasenor always has his secret weapon, his Swiss Army knife: Trevor Cole.
Cole,...
By Kasey Bubnash
In a little more than three months, Santa Marians will be able to get four-year degrees at Allan Hancock College.
Representatives of Hancock and the University of La Verne me...
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"Why is everyone so sensitive?"
We hear it so often in the Opinion section, often from those mad at letters they disagree with or at reporting they'd have r...
By Rebecca Rose
The Lompoc Valley Art Association is hosting Art Hunt, a free local art-themed event from Oct. 18 through 21.
The event offers participants a chance to find free art wo...
By Rebecca Rose
CORE Winery in Orcutt will feature two poets, David Dominguez and Raina J. León at its monthly poetry reading series on Oct. 13.
León, Ph.D, has written three c...
By Rebecca Rose
Irina Malkmus vividly recalls the details of spending part of her youth in Crimea, at her grandparents' home, picking wild mushrooms.
"I spent lots of time with my grand...
By Rebecca Rose
If the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the Iliad by Homer is the 2004 movie Troy starring Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom–well, for crying out loud, re...
By Joe Payne
For the musician who makes the leap from studying their instrument and playing in jam circles to actually starting a group and getting paid to perform, that milestone can be a...
By Rebecca Rose
Here on the Central Coast, every sip of wine or beer bears a hint of the region that produced it. So what happens when you combine them both?
Don't go dumping your beer int...
The Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society and Solvang Library co-host Birds of the Channel Islands, a free lecture with local zoologist Paul Collins, on Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. ...
In celebration of its seventh anniversary, Treetop Yoga hosts free classes on Oct. 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Oct. 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. These classes include gentle y...
The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature in Solvang hosts an opening reception for Nature Abstracted, a collaboration between the museum and the Abstract Art Collective, on Oct. ...
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