Parents interested in having their kindergartners enrolled in the Santa-Maria Bonita School District’s new Dual Language Immersion program will have the opportunity to attend one of four upcoming meetings about the program. An English/Spanish Dual Immersion program is slated to begin at the kindergarten level at the district’s newest school—recently named Roberto and Dr. Francisco […]
Santa Maria-Bonita District holds informational meetings for kindergarten dual language immersion program
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Righetti High School educates students and parents on safe driving
Almost four months after a vehicle race took Righetti senior Breanna Rodriguez’s life, the school played host to two assemblies and one workshop dedicated to educating attendees on safe driving. The first event featured the assemblies titled “What Do You Consider Lethal,” which were held from 8:30 to 10:20 am. inside the gym. About 1,000 […]
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Pioneer Valley High School students take a tour of Europe
Students from Pioneer Valley High School just returned from a trip that took them to London, Paris, Milan, Florence, and Rome in 10 days. They saw the Louvre, Buckingham Palace, the Vatican, and crossed the English Channel in an underwater train. The students are part of the school’s Travel Club, and planned the trip with […]
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Spotlight on: Advanced Smile and Design
Sean Nolan went to the dentist a lot as a kid, but it wasn’t always because he needed to. Growing up in Bakersfield with a dentist for a father, Nolan got to see a lot of the ins and outs of the profession. Nolan said once he found himself crafting dentures in his father’s lab. […]
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Political Watch 4/30/15
• On April 22—also known as Earth Day—U.S. Rep. Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara) introduced a bill that would place a moratorium on offshore fracking in federal waters off the West Coast pending a full environmental review of the practice. Under the Offshore Fracking Transparency and Review Act, no hydraulic fracturing or acid well stimulation treatment […]
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Community Notebook 4/30/15 – 5/7/15
MONDAY, MAY 4 • The Solvang Planning Commission has its regular meeting at 7 p.m. in City Council Chambers, 1644 Oak Street, Solvang. TUESDAY, MAY 5 • The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has its regular meeting at 9 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room, 105 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara. Agendas […]
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Hobnobbing with Helen
Scones, lemon curd, clotted cream. Shortbread cookies. Savory tea sandwiches (cucumber sandwiches are absolutely de rigeur). Champagne. Chocolate-covered strawberries (with long stems). These are the makings of high tea, and they were very much in evidence at the Minerva Club’s fifth annual Formal English Tea and Fashion Show. Held at the historically significant Minerva Clubhouse […]
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Costs pile up for the U-Haul murder trial
Most of Santa Barbara County’s residents didn’t even sit a day in court to listen to the brutal—and sometimes tedious—details of the murder of 28-year-old Anthony Ibarra, yet all of them will end up footing the bill in some small way. Ibarra was found dead in a rented U-Haul moving truck on March 19, 2013, […]
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Correction
• In the April 23 article ‘Water Town,” we incorrectly reported that the Allan Hancock College women’s cross country team was nixed to help pay for water polo. The cross country was actually suspended in response to low interest, and some of the money that move freed up is being used to help pay for […]
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Santa Maria police deploy ‘sponge round’ to end standoff
Santa Maria police arrested one man on the afternoon of April 27 following an hours-long standoff in the northeastern part of town, according to the SMPD. Lt. Dan Cohen said his department received a call to respond to the 1700 block of North Lynne Drive, where they found Juan Angel Salinas Peña allegedly trying to […]
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Lompoc commits $400k to update zoning ordinances
The city of Lompoc is reworking its economic development capacity from the inside out, specifically targeting its outdated zoning ordinances in an effort to drive more business into the city. On April 21, the City Council unanimously voted to award a $396,899 contract to San Francisco-based consultants Dyett and Bhatia to write new land-use ordinances […]
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Driscoll’s Berries faces Strawberry Festival protest
Protestors gathered outside the gates to call for a boycott of the Santa Maria Strawberry Festival over the weekend of April 25. Colorful signs painted with strawberries and “HULEGA!!”—meaning ‘strike’ in English—waved as sharply-dressed families walked by. They picketed in solidarity with massive strikes in Baja California, Mexico. Tens of thousands of berry pickers walked […]
