With 17 wins this so far this season, the Orcutt Academy High School girls’ soccer team is having a record-breaking year. Much of that success is thanks to student Taylor Martinez, the team’s unstoppable junior forward. In recent games against Dunn High School and Templeton, a team that was previously undefeated, Martinez scored the only […]
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Taylor Martinez
With 17 wins this so far this season, the Orcutt Academy High School girls’ soccer team is having a record-breaking year. Much of that success is thanks to student Taylor Martinez, the team’s unstoppable junior forward. In recent games against Dunn High School and Templeton, a team that was previously undefeated, Martinez scored the only […]
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Lompoc students discuss school violence at Speech Trek
Lompoc High School junior Karla Paniagua was leaving the restroom and making her way back to class when it happened: An administrator’s voice came over the intercom and announced that her school was going into a lockdown. It was not a drill. She knew she needed to get back to her classroom immediately, […]
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North County hotels offer discounts to emotionally and financially drained South County evacuees
You don’t really know what it’s like to have to leave your home during a mandatory evacuation until you’ve experienced it yourself, according to Barry Prescott, general manager of Solvang’s well-known hotel, The Landsby. As a resident of the Santa Barbara area, Prescott was forced to evacuate during the Thomas Fire in December 2017. […]
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Storms likely to blame for high number of oil-covered seabirds
Oil-covered seabirds are washing up on Santa Barbara County beaches in large numbers this year, likely a result of the continuous heavy rainstorms on the Central Coast throughout the past few weeks. The vast majority of injured birds, which are being impacted by naturally occurring ocean oil seeps off the Central and South Coast, […]
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Ravynn Anielski
This Pioneer Valley High School basketball player leads her team in more than just points. Ravynn Anielski, a junior, has played varsity every year of her high school basketball career, and averages about 19 points a game, according to coach Ashley Sandoval. Anielski has scored a whopping total of 441 points so far this season. […]
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Carbajal brings Foodbank CEO to State of the Union
Throughout and after the most recent government shutdown, the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County distributed more than 21,000 pounds of food to 458 families of local furloughed federal employees. That’s the kind of work U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) said he hoped to highlight at President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address […]
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Former Santa Maria student works toward doctoral degree as prestigious McNair Scholar
After a summer of researching and observing animal behavior, Angelika Pasion discovered two things that humans and Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs have in common: They love to eat and sleep. “It’s similar to humans, which I thought was pretty funny,” Pasion told the Sun. Pasion, a Pioneer Valley High School alumna, is now in her third […]
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As Santa Barbara Airport expands, service at Santa Maria’s remains stagnant
The coming year could be a record-breaking one for the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, which has seen some major expansion throughout the past eight months and even in the last few weeks. Despite many efforts to do the same at the Santa Maria Public Airport, little progress has been made. On Jan. 28, Delta Air […]
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Santa Maria issues 57 accessory dwelling unit permits in 2018
Just eight months ago, nothing more than a hollow, wooden frame stood on the expansive dirt lot at 2811 S. Bradley Road. Construction on the then just budding project has since wrapped up, and the lot is now host to a sturdy 2,138-square-foot house and its mini-me, a 1,000-square-foot accessory dwelling unit—the first of its […]
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Foodbank to continue distributions for federal employees in wake of shutdown’s end
The partial government shutdown ended—for now—and local federal employees were back at work on Jan. 28, but the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County will continue distributing free food to those impacted by the shutdown through Feb. 8. “We realize that the moment a paycheck comes in doesn’t mean everyone will be instantly relieved,” said Judith […]
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The thought that counts
How a naïve but well-intentioned attempt to lend a helping hand led police to profile and temporarily detain two homeless men
Two homeless men sit handcuffed on the pavement. As far as we know, they’ve done nothing wrong, and it’s because of us that they’re detained here. This isn’t how the morning was supposed to go. It’s well past 7 a.m., and we’d been waiting for the police to arrive for at least a half hour, […]
