By ZAC EZZONE
For the first time since 2013, the Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department has completed an assessment reviewing how the community feels about existing park services and w...
By WILLIAM D'URSO
Guadalupe held a meeting on Jan. 12 to get community input about how to improve local infrastructure.
“There was something like 80 people, which I was told was a pretty...
By ZAC EZZONE
Lompoc officials, residents, and nonprofits are looking for ways to make the city safer after a historically violent 2019.
A record seven homicides took place in the ci...
By WILLIAM D'URSO
Allan Hancock College is still considering the option of on-campus housing, a potential plan that’s been in the works since President Kevin Walthers joined the school in...
By WILLIAM D'URSO
Homeless spending in California has climbed every year since 2018, with Gov. Gavin Newsom determined to make each subsequent budget another step toward aiding the state’...
• On Jan. 9, U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) and more than 200 members of the House of Representatives voted in favor of a resolution that defines and limits P...
By WILLIAM D'URSO
Flights will return to the Santa Maria Airport, served by United Airlines, spiriting travelers to Los Angeles, Denver, and San Francisco.
The flights, local leaders i...
By ZAC EZZONE
Geographically located between northern and southern Santa Barbara County, the Santa Ynez Valley is also at the center of much of the area’s debate over cannabis cultiva...
By RON FINK
On May 2, 2017, City Manager Patrick Wiemiller said in a briefing to the Lompoc City Council, “The biggest financial hurdle facing Lompoc, according to staff, is the cit...
By Andrew Christie, director, Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club
Environmental justice is one of those things most readily understood, and keenly felt, in its absence.
If you’re unsure as to the meaning of “environmental justic...
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By The Canary
Twisting and turning in the wind, giant 500-foot-tall wind turbines could find their way into George Bedford’s flawlessly idealic view across the hills and dales of San ...
Peace in the Valley: History of the Lompoc Police Department 1890-2008, the first formal written history of Lompoc’s police department, is now available for purchase. Th...
Santa Maria Civic Theatre’s (SMCT) production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord opens on Friday, Jan. 17, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. The show is scheduled to run through ...
Live Birth: A Year in the Life of an Elephant Seal, a special lecture presented by the Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society, will be held at St. Mark’s-in-the-Valle...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
The title of Central Coast local Wendelin Van Draanen’s new book alludes to the author’s persistence in sending her unpublished novels to various New York publishe...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
A tabby cat named Thomasina, nicknamed Sina for short, graces the January page of the inaugural Pinups and Pets—a locally produced 12-month calendar to benefit the Santa...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
“Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.” Radio announcer Fred Foy’s famous intro to The Lone Ranger serves as the tagline for a Santa Barb...
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Co-writer and director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Jarhead, Spectre) helms this World War I epic about two young British soldiers—Lance Cpl. Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman...
By BETH GIUFFRE
The ghosts of Prohibition still linger in the cool warehouse distribution rooms of our Central Coast wineries. Constitutional amendments of Prohibition enacted 100 years ago&m...
Boscutti Ballet Theatre and Performing Arts presents its Winter Recital, A Fairytale, at the Lompoc Civic Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m.
Doors open at 1:30 p.m. an...
Flying Goat Cellars hosts a reception for its new featured artist, Elisa J, on Saturday, Jan. 25, from 3 to 5 p.m. A self-taught artist and writer from Chicago, Elisa’s ...
Yoga 4 Mankind in Orcutt hosts A Restorative Practice Towards Hip Preservation on Sunday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Terri Robinson leads this workshop, which costs $30 in ad...
A Meet and Greet with congressional candidate Andy Caldwell takes place at the DeWees Senior Center in Lompoc on Sunday, Jan. 26, from 2 to 5 p.m.
Attendees are encouraged t...
The Fabing-McKay-Spanne House hosts its next monthly open house event on Sunday, Jan. 26, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Guests visiting this 1875 Victorian farmhouse can tour the m...
The Santa Maria Philharmonic Society presents Fly Me to the Moon: From J.S. Bach to Mr. Spock, a free family concert, at the Pacific Christian Center, on Sunday, Jan. 26, from...
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