This election cycle, Lompoc has two City Council seats and the mayor’s seat up for grabs, and the Lompoc Unified School District has its second by-trustee area election this November. To help keep residents informed and involved during election season, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Lompoc-Vandenberg branch received a $10,000 grant from the […]
AAUW Lompoc-Vandenberg branch receives Fund for Santa Barbara grant for local election forums
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Political Watch: August 29, 2024
• U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) joined a bipartisan group of 20 senators in calling on President Joe Biden to establish a White House Task Force on Global Sporting Events in preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (which will include matches held in California), the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games, the 2031 […]
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NEW FLICKS: An Evening of Surf Films
An Evening of Surf Films What’s it rated? Unrated When? Sunday, Aug. 25, at 5:30 p.m. ($17.91 at esterobaykindnesscoalition.org) Where’s it showing? Bay Theatre of Morro Bay The Kindness Coalition presents an evening of surf films, screening Stoker Machine (2023; 12 min.) and Big Wave Guardians: First Responders of the Sea (2022; 91 min.). The […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: A League of Their Own
A League of Their Own What’s it rated? PG When? Saturday through Monday, Aug. 24 to 26, at 7 p.m. Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo Penny Marshal (Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Big, Awakenings) directs this 1992 sports dramady offering a fictional account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1943-1954), […]
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Alien: Romulus returns to the original’s formula and nails it
Alien: Romulus What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe, The Girl in the Spider’s Web) directs this new installment in the Alien sci-fi horror franchise. In this go-around, […]
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Multiple local venues hold screenings for 27th annual Manhattan Short Film Festival
Oodles of avenues across several countries will double as temporary movie houses during September and October, in conjunction with this year’s global Manhattan Short Film Festival. Participating venues in California include some libraries in both San Luis Obispo County and the Santa Maria Valley, as well as one senior center in the latter region. Central […]
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Godspell retells Christ’s parables with spellbinding songs at SMCT
Day by day Visit smct.org for more info on Godspell, onstage at the Santa Maria Civic Theatre (SMCT) through Aug. 25. Tickets to the show are available in advance at my805tix.com. SMCT is located at 1660 N. McClelland St., Santa Maria. The company’s next show, Savannah Sipping Society, is slated to open on Oct. 11 […]
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Democrats are the victims of their own infatuation with DEI
A preordained, carefully scripted coronation, or a food fight at a cannibal’s banquet? To the surprise of no one, Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid following his disastrous debate performance and the failure of subsequent “soft ball” interviews with pre-cleared questions to reassure the public of his mental soundness. Biden then endorsed Vice President Kamala […]
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The 2024 election is fraught with information overflow and faulty facts
The election season is in full swing locally, regionally, and nationally. In most places the candidate filing period is closed, and each candidate is busy trying to convince voters to support their ideas. On the federal level, two very different people are competing to become the president of the United States; each has a public […]
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Capital needed
It seems a little strange that Guadalupe is moving forward with its theater renovation project without having all the cash it needs in the bank yet. The Royal Theater revamp fund is still short $3 million—that’s the same $3 million the Guadalupe City Council declined to ask its residents to fund via a bond measure […]
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Lompoc’s reading challenges promote continued learning and family connection
Lompoc residents collectively read for more than 364,000 minutes this summer, quadrupling the number of minutes set in the library’s goal for its annual summer reading challenge. “Lompoc is a great community, and the reading numbers far exceeded my expectations, which was amazing. We just kept passing our goal, so we changed it, and we […]
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Political Watch: August 22, 2024
• Assemblymember Gregg Hart (D-Santa Barbara) announced that Assembly Bill 1866, which addresses idle oil wells, has made it to the California Senate floor, according to an Aug. 15 statement from Hart’s office. The legislation specifically mandates that oil companies plug an estimated 40,000 idle wells in California and prioritize plugging wells within 3,200 feet […]