After Allan Hancock College’s 89th commencement, it was neither the school’s president Jose M. Ortiz nor the keynote speaker, Henry A.J. Ramos, who had the final word on the occasion: It was the Allan Hancock College Concert Band, which, after the recession of the graduates, performed the Looney Tunes theme song “That’s All, Folks.” Graduates […]
Hancock’s Class of 2010 turns the tassel
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County officials crunch numbers and plan for funding cuts
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors spent much of the week of June 7 mulling over ways to close the county’s more than $40 million budget shortfall. The 2010-11 budget proposals presented by county employees included some drastically bleak money-saving measures, including a $14.8 million reduction in staff positions and benefits; using $29.5 million […]
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Representatives will face off in November
U.S. Representative for the 23rd District Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara) will face Republican candidate Tom Watson and Libertarian Darrell N. Stafford in November. Capps and Stafford ran unopposed on their parties’ respective tickets. Watson took 38 percent of the vote on the Republican ballot, trailed by Clark Vandeventer who took approximately 21 percent and John […]
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Party people
The parties were colorful, the races were tight, and the candidates were, for the most part, composed. June 8, 2010, marked the potential for change in Northern Santa Barbara County, considering several key positions were up for grabs, including D.A., Assembly member, and a couple of county supervisor seats. While the results trickled in over […]
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Summer Guide 2010
Click the above image to check out this year’s Summer Guide.
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Political Watch 06.10
The city of Santa Maria needs representatives to serve on the Block Grant Advisory Committee and Library Board of Trustees. Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. on July 2. There will be five people appointed to the Block Grants Advisory Committee for three-year terms. Members are responsible for conducting public workshops and hearings, reviewing […]
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Community Notebook 06.10
MONDAY, JUNE 14 • The Santa Maria City Block Grants Advisory Committee has its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Conference Room, 110 E. Cook St., Santa Maria. TUESDAY, JUNE 15 • The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has its regular meeting at 9 a.m. in the Betteravia Government Center’s […]
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Fathers behind bars are still fathers
Imagine you’re 5 years old, and one day your dad doesn’t come home from work. You ask your mom what’s going on and she says, “Daddy’s going to be gone for a while.” You wonder: Is he OK? What happened? Why did he leave me? This is a daily reality for thousands of California children […]
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Logan Kemp
Who needs snow to take on a downhill ski run? Certainly not Righetti High School junior Logan Kemp. The 17-year-old competed in the U.S. Open of Mountain Biking downhill championships on Memorial Day weekend in New Jersey, taking third place honors out of 71 competitors in his age division—the amateur junior men. After taking a […]
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Making baskets
If you want food or water—those necessities of life—you need something to carry them in. Typically, that something is a basket, even though examples these days tend to come in forms more modern than their woven counterparts from yesteryear. Kathy Badrak and Karen Osland of Lavenpine Consulting like those old forms. They like them so […]
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Wretched, wretched word count
Here are 55 words for New Times’ and the Sun’s annual 55 Fiction contest: Rule one: 55 words or less. Two: Contractions count as a single word. So go to town with the shouldn’ts, wouldn’ts, won’ts, and can’ts. Trois: Hyphenated words don’t count as a single word. Star-studded-sky? Three words. Shi: Standard acronyms are a […]
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Wherefore art thou, rodeo?
As the old adage goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. One needed only to view the fans braving the warm weather for the 67th installment of the Elks Rodeo as proof the sport is still alive and kicking in Santa Maria. Despite less media exposure and a grim economic climate, […]