It’s so easy to get used to a good thing. That seems to be the case with SY Kitchen. Although it’s only been around for about five years (a significant number in the restaurant business), it won an instant reputation as one of the best eateries on the Central Coast. But in truth, I hadn’t […]
SY Kitchen is still going strong in Santa Ynez
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Great American Melodrama announces 2018 season
Oceano’s Great American Melodrama recently revealed its slate of upcoming productions for the 2018 season. Planned shows included Ken Ludwig’s Sherlock Holmes comedy Baskervilles, running now through March 4, Sylvia, about a dog who upends a married couple’s life, which runs March 8 through April 22, and the musical spoof Less Miserable, which runs from […]
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Shy Kendrick
Valley Christian Academy high school junior Shy Kendrick is the leading scorer on the girls’ varsity basketball team, according to head coach Randy Stanford, with an average of 12.5 points a game. As point guard, Kendrick also averages 8.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists, and 4.2 blocked shots each game, Stanford said. Kendrick has been selected as […]
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Spotlight on: Edible Arrangements
Decades ago, longtime Santa Marian George Muranaka and his wife, Linda, talked about opening up a franchise one day. Once their kids grew up and left the house, they had the time and money to invest, Muranaka said, but they weren’t about to drop more than $1 million for a McDonald’s franchise. They came across […]
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Los Padres combs through proposals for restoration work in areas affected by Zaca, Piru, and Jesusita fires
A decade after three fires scorched swaths of the Los Padres National Forest, plans are finally being laid to repair the damage. The forest and its nonprofit partner, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), announced on Jan. 10 it would accept proposals for a third round of funding available to the Los Padres through the […]
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Buellton City Council to fill vacant seat at next meeting
Buellton City Council members will fill a recently emptied seat during their meeting on Feb. 8, where three applicants will be publicly interviewed before one is chosen. Council members agreed to begin taking applications at a meeting on Dec. 14 after former Councilmember Foster Reif announced his early resignation due to a job opportunity in […]
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Semi-official election results in favor of Los Olivos Community Services District
The semi-official election night results are in, and it appears Los Olivos will be using locally elected officials to oversee the handling of its notorious wastewater issues. Los Olivos residents cast their votes on Jan. 30 largely in favor of Measure P2018, which, if certified by the Santa Barbara County Elections Office, would form the […]
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Checks, balances?
Hey, there it is! Some of that “deference” that the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on the North side of the dias have been looking for regarding oil! Everybody got along and made a grown-up decision across party lines. Isn’t that neat? It’s not a giant pipeline that ERG Operating Company wants to build […]
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Trump’s plan will make nuclear war more likely
The 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) released on Feb. 2 represents a reckless realignment of an already dangerous U.S. nuclear policy. The review specifically calls for the development of new, low-yield nuclear weapons that have lower explosive force. Many experts warn that such smaller weapons would blur the distinction between nuclear and non-nuclear weapons, […]
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Pot or not
A legal product called tobacco is freely sold nearly everywhere. People use tobacco for the pleasure that it provides. This product causes illness and death. Thousands dead every year. A legal product called alcohol is freely sold nearly everywhere. People use alcohol for the pleasure that it provides. This product causes illness and death. Thousands […]
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Lompoc welcomes cannabis industry
Lompoc was founded as a temperance colony which completely prohibited alcohol. A group of ladies is famous for pulling a saloon right off its foundation and dragging it down the street in 1885. But Prohibition ended with progression in Lompoc, and the city now boasts itself as wine and beer crafting tourism destination. In November […]
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High schoolers present solutions to gender discrimination at first annual AAUW Speech Trek
When Lompoc High School student Erin McCallon attended San Luis Obispo’s Jan. 20 Women’s March, a local take on the second nationwide rally for gender equality since President Donald Trump was sworn into office, she said it changed her life. “I realized that I’m not the only person who thinks the way I think,” McCallon […]