Santa Maria BMX announced it would be kicking off its “Summer Series” of six BMX races on July 22. Races will be held beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Santa Maria BMX track at the Elks Unocal Event Center on July 22, July 29, Aug. 3, Aug. 5, Aug. 12, and Aug. 17, with the […]
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Mustang soccer to hold coaches’ clinic in Orcutt
The Orcutt United Youth Soccer League is partnering with the Cal Poly Mustang Soccer coaching staff for a free youth coaches’ clinic on Aug 6. The clinic is part of the Cal Poly men’s soccer program’s Summer Youth Coaching Series. Developed for coaches, the “Pass It On” seminar incorporates warm-up drills to develop skill, vision, […]
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Walking on water
Paddleboarding is catching on in the Central Coast as alternative to surfing
It used to be you needed a touch of divinity to walk on water, but through the emerging sport of stand up paddleboarding (SUP), young and old people alike can experience a feeling bordering on the miraculous. While the concept has been around for centuries in Hawaii—and was reintroduced there by surfer Thomas Blake in […]
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Spotlight on: Divine Guidance
Helen Piceno, soul coach
I emerge from a cave overlooking a beach, clothed in animal skins and moccasins. Hunting for game, I’m suddenly struck in the head by a blunt object. I fall, and lose consciousness, rising out of my body and into the clouds above. No, I haven’t discovered the secret of time travel; I’m actually in the […]
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Stanford study: Climate change to diminish Santa Barbara County wine production
Over the next 30 years, premium wine production in Santa Barbara County could drop as much as 20 percent, a consequence of rising temperatures associated with climate change, according to a recently released Stanford University study. Using computer models and assuming a nearly two degree jump in average global temperatures by 2040, scientists predicted the […]
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‘Khaos’ Theory
Orcutt’s undefeated 10U softball team qualifies for a national tournament
[image-2] Perfection. It’s a rarity in athletics, but the girls of the Orcutt Khaos, the 10-and-under fast-pitch champions of the Orcutt Youth Softball League, are making it look like a walk in the park. At odds with their nickname, the Khaos are in actuality a finely tuned machine. Undefeated in 18 games this season, they’re […]
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Locals represented on All-CIF teams
Several local high school athletes made the cut when the CIF Southern Section announced its All-CIF teams for baseball and softball on June 20. CIF coaches selected Lompoc senior pitcher Ryan Bower and Nipomo junior pitcher Ryan McNeil as Division 5 first-team members for baseball. Bower finished the season with a 1.35 earned run average […]
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Learn to fish at Cachuma Lake
Children ages 7 to 15 can learn to fish with the best anglers around at the Cachuma Lake Nature Center’s Kids’ Fishing Workshop on July 23. Expert fishermen will teach kids basic fishing skills, beginning at 8:45 a.m. and lasting until noon. Children will learn knot tying; casting; trout fishing; rigging for bass, crappie, and […]
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Nature Center hosts yard sale
The Cachuma Lake Nature Center is looking for donations for its yard sale fundraiser, scheduled for July 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The center hopes to raise $6,000 from the event, meaning they’ll need about 6,000 items to sell. Donations of household goods, books, camping gear, sports equipment, toys, linens, jewelry, tools, small […]
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Packers to hold kids’ clinic
The Santa Maria Valley Packers promise fun and fundamentals for children ages 6 to 15 at the team’s summer baseball fundamentals clinic July 6 to 8. The three-day clinic will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at John Osborne Field on the Allan Hancock College campus. The cost is $75, payable by check or […]
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Paint wars
A Lompoc paintball venue provides a safe and legal home for high-adrenaline action
Your pulse quickens. Condensation builds inside your mask from rapid out-breaths as your senses heighten to every thwack and pop of paintballs whizzing by at 280 feet per second. You anticipate the projectile’s strike, just hoping it hits somewhere fleshy, and walk out of the arena looking like a Jackson Pollack masterpiece, bruised, but no […]
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Spotlight on: Big League Scoops and Shaves
Mathew Rick, owner
Summer, baseball, and ice cream are something of an American Holy Trinity, and customers of Big League Scoops and Shaves in the Santa Maria Town Center can indulge in the best of all worlds in one fell swoop. Just 26 years old, Big League owner Matthew Rick received his confectionary education from Bernardo’s Ice Cream […]