The American Association of University Women’s (AAUW) Santa Maria Branch is granting full scholarships for eight local students to attend UC Santa Barbara’s Tech Trek, a weeklong science and math camp designed to develop interest and confidence in young women entering the eighth grade in the fall. The camp features hands-on activities in math, science, […]
AAUW Santa Maria giving Tech Trek scholarships
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Santa Maria high school district art teachers collaborate on mural
The Santa Maria Joint Union High School District’s (SMJUHSD) Professional Development Center just received a new mural painted by district art teachers. The 7-foot-tall mural stretches 40-feet along the boardroom wall and depicts an aerial view of Santa Maria. Ernest Righetti High School art teachers LeeAnne Del Rio and Melissa Johnson, Santa Maria High School […]
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Community invited to vote on Water Wise video contest
The Santa Barbara County Water Agency announced that voting is underway for a People’s Choice Award in the annual Water Wise High School Video Contest. Community members are invited to view the videos on the agency’s Facebook page and vote for their favorite via Facebook likes. The deadline for voting is Earth Day, April 22. […]
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Mexican Masterpieces Chalk Festival to benefit Los Alamos library
C Gallery owner Connie Rohde has more than a fair amount of experience producing and overseeing chalk festivals. The longtime arts educator organized the Santa Ynez Valley Union High School’s chalk festival for years, amassing as many as 200 student artists, all creating street art in a day. Rohde is now organizing what she calls […]
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Poetic Justice Project fundraiser features actor William Brown
The star of the new web series The wHOLE by Think Ten Media Group, actor William Brown, will speak at an upcoming fundraiser event for the Poetic Justice Project (PJP) on April 12. Brown is a longtime collaborator with the PJP and artistic director Deborah Tobola, who originally recommended Brown to Think Ten Media’s Ramon […]
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Riptide Big Band swings hits for senior Spring Fling
It’s been more than a year since Riptide Big Band musical director Judy Lindquist first moved to the Central Coast and assembled the 16-piece jazz ensemble. The group has enjoyed an artistic residency of sorts at the Elwin Mussell Senior Center thanks to the continued support of the Mussell Senior Club, which regularly sponsors dance […]
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The write stuff
I wrote an entire book in 40 days. Yes, just 40 days; I thought it was pretty impressive too. It was 130,000 words, super funny (in my opinion anyway), and it had a beginning and an end, resulting in what I assumed was a best seller. The book was titled Cadet Blues, and after 40 […]
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Going green
Medical marijuana, huh? Hoo! Talk about a touchy subject! The green stuff is less controversial today than it’s been in years past, considering that it’s been decriminalized in several states—even for recreational use alone!—and is kinda sorta allowed in certain situations in California, as long as the right person is looking the wrong way and […]
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A ‘nut’ case
We get it: four years of drought, dried-up reservoirs, and no significant rain in sight. We’ve got a problem. A few reliable sources have come forward to publicly mention the facts about how our water is “shared.” Some have even pointed out the glaring inequity in distribution to residential, business, and governmental users (estimated as […]
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Really?
Are you Lucia Mar Unified School Board members for real? Are you really going to compliantly watch your superintendent treat your most vital resource, your teachers, as if they are adversaries? Are you really going to continue to watch and allow the compensation schedule for your teachers fall further and further behind that of other […]
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When ya gotta go, you gotta go!
“Mommy! I have to go potty, NOW!” What parent has not heard these words and frantically looked around for somewhere to take their child? No gas station handy or big store to run to. “Ah, we’ll just pop into (insert a food place or smaller retail store).” Hmmm, maybe not. Just recently, I was assisting […]
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The cost of closing Diablo Canyon
When Diablo Canyon is shut down, its electrical production will have to be replaced by another source of energy. It cannot be renewable resources, as the existing renewable resources are already accounted for in current production, so new renewable resources would have to be built to replace it, and resources like wind and solar are […]
