The Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) received a $10,000 Arts Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. PCPA was one of 133 organizations to receive funding from the NEA this year. In the spring of 2017, Art Works granted almost $4 million in theater and musical theater grants. The NEA grant will go toward […]
PCPA receives NEA grant
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Worldwide whine
Things sure have changed since I began fluttering around newsrooms, chasing down leads, and covering local news. For one, I don’t actually have to go to a bunch of local meetings—they stream online now! I’ve got to admit, it’s nice listening to county Supervisors Steve Lavagnino and Das Williams, or Peter Adam and Janet Wolf, […]
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Tiny houses, big dreams: CET plans to donate houses to those without
Steve Del Real said he watched his students at the Center for Employment Training (CET) build miniature, almost fully working homes for years as a part of the hands-on learning experience provided in Del Real’s curriculum for the Green Building Construction Skills class. The students would build the homes up, only to have the projects […]
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The Benchwarmer shares her adventure at Zion National Park, Utah
By definition, the word “zion” means paradise. If there is a paradise on this Earth, I think it exists in Zion National Park. Tucked into the southwest corner of Utah, the park regally stands as one of the oldest national parks in America. It’s a place I have visited with my family since I was […]
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God of fire is pleased
Having written nearly 2,000 opinion columns during my career, there is one particular subject that I have repeated over and over. It has to do with the dangers and implications of wildland fires. I characterize these observations by way of the subject line “fires, floods, and fools.” Fire, of course, leads to the watershed being […]
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Thanks for stopping SB 562
Even a Democrat thinks it is dumb. Democrats are noted for raising taxes and spending wildly on social issues. But here even the speaker of the California Assembly, Democrat Anthony Rendon, had to apply good sense and shelve SB 562 to stop his buddies from bankrupting the state of California with a $400 billion per […]
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Filthy-five fiction
My family and I were totally disgusted by Mr. Foote’s 55 Fiction article peppered with F-bombs (“Graciapapi,” July 6). It’s bad enough that people are forced to hear those obscenities at the movies, but to see it in black and white in what we thought was a family friendly newspaper was unnecessary and ugly. The […]
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Remember the Alamo!
On behalf of the residents living near the north side of the Alamo Fire, I wish to give my heartfelt thanks to all the firefighters on the ground and in the air who came from near and far to help protect our lives, property, and livestock. Being one who stayed after the evacuation order, I […]
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Embrace the community
In a recent interview with KSBY, Mr. Rick Haydon, city manager of Santa Maria, when speaking about the Mayor’s Task Force, stated that the people on the Mayor’s Task Force on Youth Safety “have a history dealing with at-risk youth.” To be clear, this begs the following questions: After so many years of dealing with […]
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Four Marian Regional Medical Center volunteers awarded ‘Volunteen’ scholarship
The Volunteen Scholarship Award recently gave $7,000 in scholarships to four local college-bound teens who volunteer at Marian Regional Medical Center. The four locals served many hours at Marian Regional Medical Center with the Volunteen program. Scholarship winner Alyssa Scannelli accumulated a total of 759 hours in the program—the most hours of any “volunteen” in […]
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Two Cuyama High School graduates land energy internships
Cuyama graduates Jazmin Ojedas and Karen Mancilla were selected to participate in this year’s summer internship program provided by energy producers. Ojedas will be interning with E&B Natural Resources while Mancilla will spend her internship with Macpherson Oil Company. E&B Natural Resources, California Resources Corporation, and Macpherson Oil Company collaborated with the California Independent Petroleum […]
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Partners in Education welcomes new board members
Partners in Education welcomed Santa Barbara City College President Anthony E. Beebe as its new board president, County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido as board secretary, and Terrain Consulting Principal Brian Robinson as the Computers for Families Committee chair. Formed in 1977 by local businesses and education leaders, Partners in Education helps meet the needs […]