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Ed. note: Freelancer John McReynolds took a couple-year hiatus from Sun projects to work on an independent book: Vanished: Lompoc’s Japanese. He explored what happened locally in the days after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the anniversary of which was just a few days ago. The following story is an excerpt from his book. Copies […]
“When they announced it, I had just ordered a hamburger and I think I took a bite, but I had to put it down,” grinned Addie Singleton, 80, a retired Lompoc teacher. “I couldn’t eat it. I just sat and cried. It’s the most wonderful thing I’ve seen in ages.” Clarence Willis of Vandenberg Village […]
Gas prices in California fell to less than $3 a gallon in November. That is a whopping drop from the state record of $4.58 in June. There’s already evidence big car and truck sales are perking up in response. “This drop has been a wonderful thing,” said Kurt Rodriguez of Santa Maria Ford. “We definitely […]
Who was the first in your circle to take the plunge and buy a computer? Or a cell phone or an iPod or ; (drumroll) ; who was first to park the car and bicycle to work? Was it goofy Uncle Jimmy, who used to ramble on about health and flax seed tea? Or was […]
Forty years after Santa Barbara County oil platforms sloshed oily goo onto America’s front page, the area has returned to the forefront of environmentalism with the approval of the county’s first renewable energy plant. The Lompoc Wind Energy Project won’t be built at tourist-draped Santa Barbara Harbor—victim of 1969’s world famous oil spill, which birthed […]
In my mind’s eye, I am gliding like a deer across center field—smooth, swift. Or I am bending a curve ball past a swinging batter—crafty. It’s easy to imagine those things because I did them once … a long time ago, way before computers and cell phones. It was the Kennedy Administration, 45 years ago. […]
