Athletes running in the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, an 11,000-mile torch relay aimed at promoting world peace, passed through Santa Maria early on May 30. The 12 runners from seven countries covered 91 miles that day, according to media coordinator Prakhara Harter. The athletes ran along Highway 1 from Santa Maria to Paso Robles, […]
Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run
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Righetti Animal Lovers complete animal emergency training
When Genete Bowen hit and killed a loose dog with her car in early 2007, her life changed. She didn’t know how to help the dog, and quickly realized that there is no emergency number to call when an animal needs immediate medical attention—there are no animal ambulances or first responders specializing in animal care. […]
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Spotlight on: Kush Cottage
A new Atascadero-based company says it has a solution to a lot of issues for small-scale vegetable and flower growing operations. While not specifically designed for it, Kush Cottage‘s custom greenhouses seem to alleviate a lot of issues that come hand-in-hand with growing cannabis. “What we do basically is kind of a newer genre in […]
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Carbajal and Fareed to face off in November
A buzzing crowd of supporters of Republican candidate Justin Fareed sipped drinks at the Santa Maria Elks Lodge while awaiting the primary election results on the evening of June 5. By 10 p.m., Fareed’s campaign felt comfortable declaring that he had shut out Republican primary candidate Michael Erin Woody for the GOP ticket, ensuring that […]
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Brown blows by challengers
Sheriff Bill Brown will remain at the top of Santa Barbara County’s Sheriff’s Office following a decisive victory in the June 5 primary. As of the Sun’s press time, the incumbent Brown had captured at least 50 percent of total votes, enough to prevent a second contest between him and Lt. Brian Olmstead in the […]
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Political Watch 6/7/18
• Just before midnight on June 5, Santa Barbara County posted its semi-official primrary election results with 100 percent of precincts reporting on how county voters decided on statewide and county primary races, offices, and ballot measures. According to the results, there were 57,628 votes cast among the county’s 206,110 registered voters. The following county […]
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Santa Maria adds odor complaints to website
On the same day that a Santa Barbara grand jury report found that there was “no clear point of contact for odor complaints on the city of Santa Maria website,” the city added just such a page to its site. The new page, available at cityofsantamaria.org/odors, was added on June 1 after the grand jury […]
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Cozy up: Rebecca Rose has a secret pleasure
I am at an age now where nothing new impresses or excites me. I’ve seen dinosaurs fight each other to death, watched alien spaceships blow up national landmarks and major world cities, and cheered for men in giant robot suits beating the crap out of giant dinosaur aliens. Whatever. It no longer gives me a […]
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Melodrama rolls out ‘The Mix Tape’
The Great American Melodrama in Oceano will present a new new musical comedy, The Mix Tape, from June 14 through Sept. 15. Set on the Central Coast, The Mix Tape takes place in the 1990s and features parody versions of classic pop songs. The comedy script is penned by Colleen Perry and Melodrama Artistic Director […]
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Elverhoj Museum welcomes new assistant director
Jody Williams (pictured) has been hired to fill the newly created position of assistant director at the Elverhoj Museum of Art and History in Solvang. Williams is originally from the Santa Ynez Valley where she attended Solvang School and Santa Ynez Valley Union High School. She earned her BA in the History of Art and […]
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Dylan Ortega brings country sound to Santa Maria’s Concerts in the Park
A smooth, deep country voice is something you expect from a bearded, whiskey-drinking, flannel-wearing, guitar-strumming dude singing under the lights at your favorite cowboy bar. But Dylan Ortega, the Santa Ynez Valley native with an album-ready voice isn’t swigging Jim Beam or singing at saloons—he’s only 19 years old. Ortega became known locally after he […]
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What stinks?
My momma bird taught me to not count canaries before they hatch, which is unfortunately where I’m at with the June 5 election results. A weekly paper’s deadlines aren’t always convenient for this bird, but you can check out the results in the Sun‘s news section (page 4). I will have plenty of pithy things […]