By KASEY BUBNASH
Another in a series of public meetings on the Mayor’s Task Force on Youth Safety went awry on Oct. 9 after a string of community members criticized the city of Santa M...
By SPENCER COLE
As thousands of acres in California burn, firefighters from across the state are scrambling to douse the flames, including some from Santa Barbara County and city fire agencie...
By SPENCER COLE
Following months of public feuding, Lompoc City Council members unanimously agreed in closed session on Oct. 3 that they had confidence in their city manager, Patrick Wiemille...
By KASEY BUBNASH
Solvang City Council appointed Karen Waite to its recently vacated seat on Oct. 6, ending a weeks-long debate over protocol codified in 2009 that outlines ways to fill a prema...
By SPENCER COLE
Another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into low-earth orbit just after 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. After delivering its payload of Iridium Communicatio...
By SPENCER COLE
The Santa Maria City Council is in agreement for the need of a public arts master plan. What council members cannot agree on is how to fund it.
“That’s what ...
By KASEY BUBNASH
Javier Solis has lived in La Plaza Villas Apartments for nearly eight years. The complex, a series of cream-colored stucco buildings at the end of Olivera Street in Guadalupe,...
By HELEN ANN THOMAS
The Minerva Club, founded in 1894 by a small group of pioneer women, held its traditional Opening Day luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 4, at the Radisson Hotel.
\More than 130 l...
• U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) announced via social media that she would seek re-election for California’s open Senate seat in the 2018 election. &ldqu...
By SPENCER COLE
When Berta Cabrera first started cutting hair, she wasn’t sure how long she would stick with it.
“I wanted to be a police officer, but my parent’s didn...
By KEN MCCALIP
We all in America need to put gun violence in perspective.
Most Americans do not realize that we have nearly twice as many guns at 88.8 per 100 citizens as any other nation. ...
By LARRY BISHOP
Recently, I and other North County residents have written letters opposing dramatic and dangerous expansion of steam injection/oil extraction projects proposed by big oil cons...
By GALE MCNEELEY
After two years of planning, community meetings, and a formal recommendation from the Planning Commission, our City Council decided not to listen to the community, the Plannin...
By ALAN EFT
On Oct. 5, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation (SB 54) that makes California a sanctuary state, protecting illegal immigrants living in California. An Associated Press article...
By STEVE CRUZ
The Sun has hit a new low with the Canary’s “Divided we stand,” (Sept. 28). The biggest reason? His continued attacks on President Trump are not only tiresom...
By PETER JOHNSON
Kristy Soriano, 39, was 9 years old when she first enrolled in a Special Olympics competition.
Her sport of choice at the time? Track and field.
“My parents got ...
By PETER JOHNSON
For Dino Maldonado, transferring from Ernest Righetti High School to St. Joseph High School two years ago and joining the Knights football team was like getting adopted into...
In celebration of the grand opening of Santa Maria Joint Union High School District’s new Performing Arts Center, Pioneer Valley High School students will stick it to th...
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By the canary
There’s nothing quite like city politics. All politics are local, they say, and you don’t get more local—or heated—than that!
Of course the Lompoc C...
What is your favorite style of beer?
By REBECCA ROSE
A cowgirl refused to wear a corset during a competition and helped change the way women equestrians dressed forever.
That’s just one small nugget revealed in a ...
By BY REBECCA ROSE
Community theater may have a new home in Orcutt.
If the people behind the Orcutt Community Theatre group have their way, it will eventually be a permanent fixture in town...
By BY ARIEL WATERMAN
My God! Is it already October? Is Halloween really almost upon us? It is my favorite holiday because I love a good fright! Give me the scary and I’m there!
My love ...
By BY JOE PAYNE
Josh Kitchen grew up in Santa Maria to parents who always cranked the great American songbook of the 1960s and ’70s. They also took him along to concerts, often, and h...
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Doug Liman (Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) directs Tom Cruise as Barry Seal, a pilot contracted by the CIA to run drugs in the late-’70s and ’80s...
By REBECCA ROSE
For some reason this week, I have “Food Glorious Food” from the musical Oliver! stuck in my head. I’ve been singing it nonstop for two days (much to the &l...
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