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PCPA’s Elf: The Musical delivers heaps of holiday hilarity

Elf off the shelf The Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) presents its production of Elf: The Musical through Dec. 23 at the Marian Theatre, located at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria.Ā  Visit pcpa.org or facebook.com/pacificconservatorytheatre for tickets and show times. For more info, call the PCPA box office at (805) 922-8313. If singing loud for […]

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Temporary fix

Raymond Leon delayed his wife’s wake by a month because of damages to the Apostolic Church in Guadalupe during the January 2023 storms.Ā  ā€œWe couldn’t hold a church service. Some struggled to come back. It was very hard for everybody,ā€ Leon said.Ā  Heavy rains in January caused the Santa Maria River to veer off its […]

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Freshman year

From helping manage record-setting storm damages to raising the benchmarks for Big Oil, Gregg Hart jumped right into his role as the Assembly member for the 37th District, representing Santa Barbara County and southern SLO County. ā€œI feel like my first year was very successful, particularly as a new legislator,ā€ Hart told the Sun. ā€œThe […]

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Cuesta College’s faculty opposes the Dana Reserve project

After two days of discussion over the controversial Dana Reserve development, Cuesta College’s academic senate decided to vote in opposition of the proposed project.Ā  The vote came on Oct. 27, less than a week after Cuesta College President Jill Stearns spoke during public comment at the Oct. 23 SLO County Planning Commission meeting, highlighting the […]

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Dig beyond ā€˜alternative facts’

In the Nov. 16 issue of the Sun letters section, John Texeira makes some salient points about how the national debt and the costs of inflation are impacting us all (ā€œBidenomics led to inflation, increased costs for consumersā€).Ā  Unfortunately, he misread some of the factors leading to these problems. The national debt is indeed an […]

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Disapproval and disarray

Cuesta College Superintendent and President Jill Stearns has been singing the praises of the 1,300-housing-unit Dana Reserve project in Nipomo, touting the space it’s allocating to a new South County campus for the college, and advocating for all the ā€œaffordableā€ housing it’s going to bring to the area. She’s toured the public meeting circuit, speaking […]

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BINGEABLE: Castlevania: Nocturne

Castlevania: Nocturne What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix I was more than content with the conclusion of Netflix’s four-season vampire anime Castlevania (2017-2021) because the series’ overarching story ended with a satisfying sense of completion. Even as much as I love the underrated, critically maligned string of video game films that […]

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