Hearts or Red” is the title of the upcoming Small Treasures exhibit in the Town Center Gallery, which will be filled with art that represents romance, love, hearts, or simply the power of the titular color. A public reception to celebrate the exhibit will include a demonstration by Joyce Nelson, who will paint a rose. […]
Hearts are red
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Dreadful success
Lance Sawyer sketched out a design with the familiar ease and confidence of a hot chick used to jotting down her number on a napkin in a bar. Only Sawyer was sitting in a booth in a dimly lit sushi joint just before the lunch hour. With short, quick strokes, he pulled together shapes, stopping […]
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Political Watch – 1.13.11
State Sen. Sam Blakeslee (R-San Luis Obispo) had a busy week, issuing multiple statements to the press. On Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal, Blakeslee said: “This budget is troublingly similar to the failed proposals of the Schwarzenegger administration. Perpetuating the status quo without reforms is a prescription for continuing job losses and declining revenues. Instead […]
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Community Notebook – 1.13.11
• The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has its regular meeting at 9 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room, 105 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara. Agendas are available at santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx#current. • The Guadalupe Planning Commission has its regular meeting at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 918 Obispo […]
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Helping Haiti
As most of the world knows, on the afternoon of Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the Caribbean country, located east of Cuba on the island of Hispaniola. The Haitian government reported that the disaster claimed 230,000 lives, injured 300,000 people, and left one million people homeless. The earthquake reduced to rubbish many […]
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Book drive honors MLK
The AmeriCorps Reading Literacy Program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office will be holding its 10th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day book drive on Jan. 17. AmeriCorps members will be at Chaucer’s Bookstore in Santa Barbara, The Book Store in Lompoc, and Borders in Goleta to collect books and offer activities for children. […]
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Newly sworn-in Gov. Brown’s budget proposal upsets nearly everyone
Gov. Jerry Brown has managed to accomplish something in his first few weeks in office that took his predecessor years to accomplish: He’s infuriated many of the state’s Republicans and Democrats at the same time. Brown released his budget proposal on Jan. 10, and it was a doozy. It calls for $12.5 billion in cuts […]
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County poised to crack down on spills from on-shore oil production facilities
At its Jan. 11 meeting, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to move forward with a proposal to tighten regulations for noncompliant on-shore oil drilling companies. If approved, the ordinance would amend the county’s Petroleum Code to change what constitutes a “high risk” facility, and clarify the offending facility’s clean-up requirements. The […]
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Local mayors seek state and federal aid to reopen Guadalupe Dunes
Heavy rains and flooding forced the closure of the Rancho Guadalupe Dunes County Park in late December, prompting city officials to plead for state and federal aid to fix the park’s access road. The Santa Barbara County Parks Department closed the entry to Guadalupe Beach—the western terminus of Main Street—after 10 inches of rain fell […]
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Hobnobbing With Helen
When he was a young man, ophthalmologist Dr. Dennis Shepard spent time as a medic in Korea, Viet Nam, and Laos, some of it on the staff of famed humanitarian Dr. Tom Dooley. This is just one of the riveting aspects of Dr. Shepard’s life that he talked about on Jan. 8 in the Historical […]
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Track loaders are available in Santa Maria
Kubota Tractor Corporation announced Santa Maria’s Ahern Rentals Inc. as one of the first dealers nationwide to offer Kubota compact track loaders, including the SVL75 and SVL90 models. Both models are equipped with tilt-up cabins, two-speed travel and high ground clearance, and powered by a four-cylinder, direct injection, turbo-charged Kubota diesel engine. The 74.3-gross horsepower […]
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CBSM promotes executive VP
Community Bank of Santa Maria recently announced the promotion of Curt Davis, a 30-year veteran of community banking, to the position of executive vice president, loan administrator. Davis joined the bank in 2003 as a commercial lender and was later promoted to senior vice president in 2006. He graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma […]