Issac Acosta, who runs a 15:41 5K, is the model of the long-suffering sports fan. He likes basketball, he tells the Sun. The Warriors? No way, he said. He’s a Lakers fan. “I still have faith in them.” When he watches football, he roots for the Raiders. “Maybe next year,” he said. What Acosta’s sports […]
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El Nino cometh: Meteorologists forecast winter storms of historic proportions on the Central Coast
There’s been plenty of speculation about whether or not this winter will bring big storms along with lots and lots of water. Forecasters won’t say for certain, but there is one thing we do know: water, the wet stuff of life on earth, is currently in short supply. It’s hard to imagine a storm that […]
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Olive Grove charter school beset by internal struggles
The Olive Grove Charter School Board met during its regular meeting on Oct. 1, a clear and hot day at its new site in Orcutt. During that meeting the board also bid adieu to three board members and two former teachers. It was not a happy parting. The small charter school, which the Sun has […]
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Cities seek to enforce Nipomo water pipeline
Nipomo’s new water pipeline, laid at the of cost $17.5 million, is expected to bring in 650 acre-feet of water per year by July of 2016. In a decade, the hope is that the pipe will transport four times that amount. That’s small comfort to Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, and Arroyo Grande, who, as part […]
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California Governor signs series of pipeline safety and oil spill response bills
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a slew of bills intended to strengthen pipeline regulations and oil spill response protocols on Oct. 8. Much of the legislation was written as a result of the Refugio oil spill in May of this year. SB 414, the Rapid Oil Spill Response Act, was introduced by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson […]
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Brittany Bolusan
There’s nothing that Brittany Bolusan, a sophomore at Allan Hancock College, loves more than shutting an opponent down on the volleyball court with a good block. “I love the feeling when the other team is trying to hit and you block them straight down,” she said. “I can’t tell if blocking is better or getting […]
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Atlas V launch at Vandenberg includes miniature satellites in payload
An Atlas V rocket was set to launch sometime between 5 and 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, from Vandenberg’s 3-East Launch Complex. It’s 20 stories tall, weighs just less than a million pounds when fueled, and rises skyward by burning liquid oxygen to generate 860 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. The launch carries two […]
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Asian citrus psyllids, but no disease, found in Santa Barbara County
The Asian citrus psyllid is alive and well in Santa Barbara County, according to the Agricultural Commissioner’s Office. They found a psyllid in Goleta this summer, and on Sept. 1 and 2, two more were found in Carpenteria. A week later, on Sept. 9 and 10, two more were found in Summerland. The tiny bug […]
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PW Environmental fined for overbilling cleanup costs
The State Water Resources Control Board has taken action against environmental contracting, engineering, and geological consulting firm PW Environmental for overbilling cleanup costs to California’s Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund. The charges of grand theft, to which PW Environmental pleaded no contest, came after allegations that PW Environmental fabricated the books for cleanup work they […]
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Santa Barbara Supoervisors attempt to clarify relationship between ICE and the sheriff at Sept. 22 hearing
It was a long, hot hearing before the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 22. Sheriff Bill Brown and officer David Marin of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with a small army of concerned residents, packed into the government center on Betteravia Road to gain a better understanding of the relationship between […]
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Ninth Court voids use of controversial pesticide
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned the Environmental Protection Agency’s unconditional approval of controversial insecticide, sulfoxaflor on Sept. 7, saying the EPA relied on “flawed and limited data” in its registration of the chemical. Sulfoxaflor is a subclass of neonicotinoid—the family of insecticides that some believe are responsible for colony collapse […]
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YELL conference brings Hollywood star Carlos Pratts to Allan Hancock
What do a Houston Rockets fan turned movie star and Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) have in common? They’ll both be speaking at the Young Educated Latino Leaders (YELL) conference on Oct. 3 at Allan Hancock College’s Marian theater. Diana Perez, the event organizer, said that the YELL conference is geared toward motivating high […]