Leave the Parklets Be
Open Letter to Santa Barbara City Mayor and Councilmembers You have an agenda item coming up June 22, agenda item 16, that could remove parklets...
Looking for Stories About Jonathan Winters
Credit: Courtesy High on my list of regrets is not having interviewed Jonathan Winters, a perpetual lightning storm of improvisational comedic genius who happened to...
Cottage Community Vaccine Clinic in Goleta Will Close July 29
SANTA BARBARA—Cottage Health will close its mass vaccination clinic on July 29, allowing time for those age 12 and up to complete both doses of...
Deadline Approaching: County of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara Foundation Announce Emergency Business Assistance Program
(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – The County of Santa Barbara, in partnership with theSanta Barbara Foundation, launched the Emergency Business Assistance GrantProgram in May 2021 that...
Central Coast Water Authority Files Legal Action Against Santa Barbara County Regarding Management of the State Water Project
Buellton, CA: The Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA) and its eight member cities and water districts has filed a significant and unprecedented lawsuit in Santa...
De la Guerra Mercado Added to Fiesta
After revealing the return of live dance and music to Fiesta 2021 last week, Stephanie Petlow, La Presidenta for Old Spanish Days, announced at De...
Foresters Player of the Week: Andrew Kachel
Andrew Kachel | Credit: Courtesy As the Foresters roared off to a 4-0 start, third baseman Andrew Kachel was in the thick of all the...
Get Thee to Morro Bay!
Think Morro Bay and a few defining, iconic features inevitably and reassuringly seize the mind. There is, of course and indubitably, the Rock — a...
Get a Vaccine, Stay Out of the Hospital
Van Do-Reynoso and Dr. Henning Ansorg put on a full-court press Friday to make the case for vaccinations in the last of their 88 regular...
Santa Barbara Birding: A Recent History of Snowy Plovers
When I first moved to Isla Vista in July 1981, I was excited to find that the area abounded in excellent birding spots, many within...
Second day of Flex Alert is 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday
More conservation sought to help balance energy supply and demandFOLSOM, Calif. – Day 2 of the Flex Alert called by the California Independent SystemOperator (ISO)...
Clarification of County Equity Funds
The Fund for Santa Barbara would like to clarify some misleading statements that were made at the County Board of Supervisors meeting last Tuesday, June...
Will Democracy Survive the Filibuster?
“Unfortunately, we now are witnessing that the fundamental right to vote has itself become overtly politicized … Whether it is state laws that seek to...
Why AR-15 Assault Weapons Must Be Banned
In response to U.S. Federal Judge Roger Benitez’s ruling on June 4, 2021, to overturn California’s 32-year-old assault weapons ban, which compared assault weapons to...
Jim Clendenen: 1953-2021
My old friend, winemaking mentor, and longtime business partner, Jim Clendenen, passed away in his sleep on May 15. Two days earlier, Jim and I,...
Santa Barbara Humane Offers Free Microchips For Cats and Dogs
Many people relish the thought of celebrating the Fourth of July with fireworks, pool parties, and barbecues. What they may not realize is that these...
Flex Alert in Effect Today From 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
FOLSOM, Calif. – The California Independent System Operator’s (ISO) first Flex Alert ofthe year takes effect this afternoon, with consumers encouraged to voluntarily conserveelectricity from...
Local Designer Rethinks Aprons and Trash Bags in ‘Good Kitchen Products’
Kazuyo Takeda, a Santa Barbara County resident, spent years as a designer for women’s clothing in New York City, Milan, and Tokyo until she took...
Last Piece of Goleta’s Marketplace Might Be Developed
In the 24 years since the Camino Real Marketplace began unspooling big box stores beneath the 737s taking off from the Santa Barbara Airport, its...
South Coast’s Home Sales Market Continues to Defy Gravity
The median home price throughout the South Coast increased from $1.5 million last July to $2 million this May. In the intervening time, the number...