Assistance League of San Luis Obispo County was among 30 recipients to receive a $5,000 grant from The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo County (CFSLOCO). The grant will be used toward purchasing new school-appropriate clothing for kindergarten through 12th grade students in need, living and attending school in San Luis Obispo County. This year’s grant-making […]
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Oakley Park renovations complete
The community celebrated Oakley Park’s significant renovations at a rededication ceremony June 7 in Santa Maria. After eight months and more than $1 million—including Community Development Block Grant funds—the project has reinvigorated Oakley Park to be the focal point of family activities in the city’s northwest quadrant, according to a press release. The park features […]
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Ready to pour: Brothers Spirits opens a tasting room offering an alternative libation in the Santa Ynez Valley’s popular wine destination
In an industrial area of Buellton, surrounded by winery production facilities and restaurants, sits Brothers Spirits. Inside, one of the brothers, Jay Lockwood, rests at a wooden table in the airy tasting area in front of several bottles of spirits. He is demonstrating how sampling spirits differs from tasting wine. He repeats a lesson he […]
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A (shelter) dog’s life
Sometimes you adopt a dog, and sometimes it adopts you
This month I did a good deed. I saved a life. OK. So there I bragged. I felt compelled to, because in a way I think it’s atonement for all those times I gave a sideways glance to my husband followed by a roll of the eyes whenever we’d meet someone, comment on their dog, […]
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Delta students play soccer to raise money for youth in need
Numerous goals for those in need were scored during the Biggest Giver Soccer Tournament. The idea for the recent fundraising event was developed by several Delta High School students who completed a writing assignment that focused on giving hope to the community. Students Ulises Ortega, Brayan Cugua, Raul Ortega, Jesus Gonzales, Leonel Gracida, Salvador Rodriguez, […]
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Righetti High’s Warrior Writer’s Club donates books to Liberty Elementary School
Several students from the Righetti High School Warrior Writer’s Club recently spent some time distributing donated books at an elementary school to promote the joy and benefit of literacy. The students came up with the community outreach idea and planned the field trip to Liberty Elementary School after they received 36 popular young adult novels […]
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$8.7 million awarded to Santa Barbara County students
The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara awarded a record $8.74 million to more than 3,000 Santa Barbara County students at two annual awards ceremonies during the last week of May in Santa Maria and Santa Barbara. Proud parents, students, and local philanthropic leaders gathered at First Christian Church in Santa Maria to honor students from […]
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Santa Maria area schools schedule commencement ceremonies
It’s graduation season and high school seniors are anticipating the big day. This year Nipomo’s Central Coast New Tech High School will celebrate its first graduating class. In Santa Maria, three high schools will celebrate simultaneous commencement ceremonies. Santa Maria, Righetti, and Pioneer Valley high schools will follow the same planning as 2015 and hold […]
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Santa Maria High School Ballet Folklorico takes national honors
Members of the Santa Maria High School Ballet Folklorico recently brought home first place honors from the La Feria De Sur Tejas Folklorico Competition in Texas. The group sealed the recognition with its El Jarabe Nayarit dance performance from Nayarit, Mexico. The dance takes place in the sugar cane fields and highlights the men’s abilities […]
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Students to participate in drumming event
On June 3, kindergarten through sixth grade students at Taylor Elementary School will come together from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. to make music and experience the power of teamwork in an enormous drumming performance. In groups of about 60, students will take turns drumming on buckets. More than 700 students will drum throughout the hour-long […]
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Saint honored with Champion Award
Santa Maria High School (SMHS) student Cristal Robles-Flores was recently honored with the Champion Award for using her youth leadership skills to selflessly help others—even though she faced personal adversity and socioeconomic hurdles. Robles-Flores received the recognition during the Youth Impact Awards ceremony at the County Education Office auditorium in Santa Barbara. The KIDS Network’s […]
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Santa Maria school district board appoints new member
At a special meeting May 17, the Santa Maria-Bonita School District Board of Education selected Santa Maria native and retired teacher Vedamarie Alvarez Flores as a new board member to fill a vacant seat. Alvarez Flores taught elementary grades in the district for 39 years and also coordinated the Santa Maria-Bonita School District’s (SMBSD) mentor […]