Want your dog or cat to look its best for those holiday family photos? Michael’s Big Dog Pet Grooming is now open in Arroyo Grande. Owners Michael Menzie and Jainine Anderson welcome all pets to their salon, located next to J.J.’s Market at 2790 Halcyon Road, suite F. For more information, call 474-4401. […]
Get your pets prim and proper
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Christmas voices
Coastal Voices will present “Christmas Favorites Old and New” at 2 p.m. on Dec. 5 and at 7 p.m. on Dec. 7. Hear carols, traditional music, and a few surprises. There will also be a sing-along. Performances will be held at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 3945 S. Bradley Road, Santa Maria. Tickets cost $10 […]
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Guild, meet your new juror
Local artist and teacher Nadya Brown is the juror for the Artists Guild of Santa Ynez Valley’s December juried show at Gallery Los Olivos. Ingathering will take place on Dec. 2, from 11 a.m. to noon. All submissions must be properly framed and prepared for hanging. Brown has been an Allan Hancock College member […]
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Looking back
The Lompoc Photographers Guild will feature its 2009 Retrospective at the Grossman Gallery Dec. 2 through 30. Every month, the guild chooses a theme to photograph, and this exhibit will feature each guild member’s choice of images from two of the themes. A reception for this exhibit is set for Dec. 4 at the […]
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On the record
Years ago, albums were revered for their cover art as much as for the music on the records inside. Now, vinyl is back in fashion again—at least at the Town Center Gallery, where member artists have taken their work and placed it on records for the latest show, Art on Record. Some of the […]
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Signing of the times
Local author Wendelin Van Draanen has sent a skateboarding young sleuth into gritty cityscapes and wild forests. She’s put a fifth grader on the trail of a string of ne’er-do-wells, from a school bully all the way up to an enemy spy. And she’s paired a kid with a talking gecko and some superpower producing […]
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Don’t delay widening 101
Twenty years ago, voters agreed to tax themselves for road improvements throughout Santa Barbara County. Measure D raised the sales tax rate one-half of one percent and paid for a lot of freeway construction projects and road maintenance projects. One project promised by the measure but not completed was the widening of the 101 freeway […]
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Monica Maldonado
Allan Hancock College runner Monica Maldonado surprised herself at the Southern California Community College Cross-Country Championships on Nov. 6. The freshman became the school’s only individual qualifier for the state cross-country meet, finishing in 51st place with a time of 20.04. “Every time we had workouts, I simply did my best,” Maldonado said. […]
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Memory on the move
On Memorial Day of 2005, in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala, a surveillance plane on a classified training mission crashed near the Iranian border. The crash killed Air Force captain Derek Argel of Lompoc, along with three other American troops and the Iraqi pilot. Argel, who had just been promoted that morning, was […]
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Bulldogs taste postseason again
After their best season record-wise in a decade, the Allan Hancock College football team is heading to the Southern California Football Association playoffs for the second year in a row. The Bulldogs finished out the regular campaign with a 9-1 record, the same mark they had in 1999 when they played in the state […]
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Spiritual
BAHA’I interfaith worship services are the second Sunday of each month. Info: 489-4172. Children’s classes are the first Saturday of each month. Info: 937-9451. Study circles about The Life of the Spirit are ongoing in Santa Maria. For questions, dates, and times: 614-0963. Info: 937-9451. BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH holds worship services Sundays with Holy […]
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Clubs & Meetings
4-H welcomes anyone interested in the group to sign up now. Find a nearby club by contacting the Santa Barbara County 4-H Office at 692-1730 or zmhughes@ucdavis.edu. ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL, INC. of SANTA MARIA, a nonprofit business and professional organization, meets the second Wednesday of each month, 6:30 p.m., in the Altrusa Theatre of the […]