• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) won her bid for re-election on Nov. 6 according to preliminary results with 54 percent of the votes in California. Her challenger, progressive state Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), won 45 percent of the vote. “Now I go to the Senate with 25 years under my belt with a […]
Political Watch 11/8/18
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Origami artist featured at Wildling Museum
The Wildling Museum in Solvang will present a new exhibit titled Folded Art: Origami Animals by Robert Salazar from Nov. 10 to March 25. Salazar is a deployable structures contractor at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) who is also a famed origami artist and environmental activist. Salazar designed the origami crease pattern for Starshade’s Optical […]
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Sol Aromatics holds natural perfume workshop in Buellton
Sol Aromatics will host a workshop to teach the fundamentals of natural perfume on Nov. 10. The workshop features a lesson in building a personal scent by Susan Farber, who will teach attendees about botanical essences from around the globe and discuss 15 essential oils and absolutes. Games meant to teach the connection between scent […]
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Historical society, library co-host lecture on wolves
The Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society and the Los Olivos Library will co-host a lecture on the gray wolf on Nov. 15. The featured speaker is Pamela Flick of Defenders of Wildlife, who will talk about the state of the wolf in North America. The wolf, which was driven to extinction by the mid-1930s […]
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The border
Well, according to CNN, MSN, CBS, NBC, ABC, and the rest, there are between 1,600 and 6,000 people coming this way through Mexico from Honduras and Guatemala. I see these comments about the president being a racist for trying to stop them. He has to stop them. All you guys that want to just let […]
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The library’s Friends thank you
The Friends of the Santa Maria Public Library want to thank our customers for supporting our recent book sale to benefit the library. Many of them were regular visitors to our former shop. We are also grateful to the large donations of books from David Adams, a former bookseller, and Joe Lazaer of AL&S Inc. […]
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Political exhaustion
Politics is tiresome, I know I’m not the only one who thinks so. For journalists, election season can feel like a long grind leading up to the big day. We follow multiple races for months, talk to dozens of candidates, wade through legal jargon in measures and propositions, and then make it out on election […]
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Tale of two worlds
What follows is a tale of two worlds. And it says something about the world we, and all children, live in. A few weeks ago the phone rang at my home and it was a lady from our main library in Santa Maria. I had returned a book, dropping it into the large metal collection […]
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Santa Maria raising money for disability inclusive playground
With the help of community and corporate donations, Santa Maria–and all of Santa Barbara County–could soon have its first ever all-inclusive playground. The Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department announced Oct. 28 plans to partner with the Santa Maria Kiwanis for Kids Foundation in an effort to build a playground that would be accessible and […]
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SLO County looks to remove hurdles to farmworker housing
Amid a statewide shortage of agricultural labor and housing, San Luis Obispo County is looking at overhauling its farmworker housing regulations, which has been criticized by industry members as too restrictive. County officials held a public workshop on Oct. 16 to outline the direction of the new housing ordinance and receive feedback. Proposed reforms include […]
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Righetti (almost) completes outdoor science classroom
Among Ernest Righetti High School’s boxy buildings, gated boundaries, and slabs of cold concrete that pave the way to and from each classroom, there lies a budding garden. Its plants are small and just beginning to grow, but the varying wildflowers are already adorned with red and purple blossoms, butterflies and hummingbirds and students frequent […]
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Spotlight on: Central Coast Sports Arena
When Tobin Flamm, 27, and his mom, Lori, bought the Central Coast Sports Arena some six months ago, they did so with one goal in mind. “We just want to help give kids an outlet and encourage them to stay off the streets and shoot for their goals and dreams,” Tobin told the Sun. “If […]