News Briefs
Neighborhood Clinics In Real Danger of Closing
System provides health care to low-income residents at little to no cost. Read story.
Friday, May 24, 2013
La Goleta Gas Storage Questions Answered
SoCal Gas Company officials detail elements of the proposal to expand the field near Goleta Beach. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Ballantyne Property Again Sparks Outcry
Gaviota Coast Conservancy fights against bid to build barn. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
City Taking Control of State Route 225
Caltrans relinquishes the route that includes Cliff Drive and Las Positas Road. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Man Pleads Guilty to Kicking Girlfriend in Head
Tomas Torrez, who was chased down by three members of the Wildcat Lounge security staff after he kicked his longtime girlfriend in the head outside the bar in August 2012, pleaded guilty to five charges in two cases, including assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and corporal injury to a spouse or inhabitant. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Harbor's Public Boat Ramp Under Massive Repair
The harbor's public boat ramp is undergoing major and long-needed repairs that are scheduled to be completed by the end of June. Though its eastern third was redone in 2012 — at a cost of $450,000, paid with a Department of Boating and Waterways grant — the ramp's westernmost section had become so worn and dilapidated in recent years that it became unusable, and the center lane was forced to accommodate all launches — around 13,000 annually. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Anacapa Vintners Changing Name
Due to potential branding problems related to another label, Seth Kunin's second Funk Zone tasting room project, which opened earlier this year on Yanonali Street as Anacapa Vintners, is immediately changing its name to AVA Santa Barbara and will use “The Valley Project” on labels for the time being. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Unemployment Rate Takes Sizable Dip
The county’s unemployment rate dropped from 7.2 percent in March 2013 to 6.0 percent in April 2013. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Lompoc Wind Farm Receives Permit Extension
Approved in September 2008, the long-cooking but as yet unrealized Lompoc wind farm received a critical permit extension last week from the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Waves Break Goleta Slough Siphon
The bureaucratic clogging of the mouth of the Goleta Slough over federal steelhead trout worries discovered by this newspaper last week hit more snags over the weekend. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Supes Head Back to Santa Maria
After construction at the Joseph Centeno Betteravia Government Administration Building in Santa Maria forced the County Board of Supervisors to hold all of their meetings in Santa Barbara, the supervisors will go back to splitting their meetings between the two cities. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Williams Education Bill Approved By State Assembly
Despite opposition from the chancellor's office and most faculty groups including the Santa Barbara City College Academic Senate, Assemblymember Das Williams's measure to allow community colleges to offer nonsubsidized extension courses during winter and summer sessions, AB 955, gained approval from the State Assembly on 5/20. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Vandenberg Gets New Commander
During a ceremony scheduled for the morning of 5/28, Col. Keith Balts will officially take over for Col. Nina Armagno as commander of the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
DUI Crash Leaves 3-Year-Old With Serious Injuries
The mother is charged with felony DUI and child endangerment. Read story.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
DNA Leads to Arrest in 2012 Rape Case
The victim was kicked out of a nightclub for being too drunk and then lured into a nearby car. Read story.
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