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Northern Santa Barbara County's news and entertainment weekly newspaper, serving California's Central Coast since 2000.

“I rode horses when I was little, and this literally gave me the opportunity to bring a passionate hobby into work,” sai...
10/16/2025

“I rode horses when I was little, and this literally gave me the opportunity to bring a passionate hobby into work,” said Santa Maria Police Department officer Jessica Rubio, while sitting on her patrol horse named Buddy.

One of Santa Maria’s Town Center East shopping plazas felt like the Old West to two police officers who chased down a suspected shoplifter outside of Big 5 Sporting Goods last summer. “We were actually in a hoof pursuit,” Santa Maria Police Department officer Jessica Rubio recalled, while sitt...

A boost of temperature during hot yoga often raises participants’ spirits, Vida Yoga owner Jenn Gagarin explained. “It c...
10/15/2025

A boost of temperature during hot yoga often raises participants’ spirits, Vida Yoga owner Jenn Gagarin explained. “It can reduce your stress and anxiety because you kind of just detoxify it all out, ... sweat it all out."

Things are about to heat up at Vida Yoga. Literally. The Orcutt studio just installed new infrared heaters, which owner Jenn Gagarin plans to fire up for the first time on Oct. 11, as part of the venue’s third anniversary celebration. Describing the nuanced sensations and benefits of hot yoga to s...

After appearing on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives with his restaurant, The Spoon Trade, Jacob Town competed and won two epi...
10/14/2025

After appearing on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives with his restaurant, The Spoon Trade, Jacob Town competed and won two episodes of Guy’s Grocery Games and competed in the Tournament of Champions.

When the Food Network called chef Jacob Town, he thought it was the greatest gift he’d ever received during his 30 years in the industry. After a two-hour interview and a couple of days in limbo, Town and his wife, Brooke, found out their restaurant, The Spoon Trade, was cast on season 49, episode...

Local kids and experienced professionals will participate in the Lompoc Chalk Festival from Oct. 17 to 19, filling in th...
10/14/2025

Local kids and experienced professionals will participate in the Lompoc Chalk Festival from Oct. 17 to 19, filling in their concrete squares at the Veterans Memorial Building.

Katherine Taylor can look at an animal and imagine it talking. The skill has helped the illustrator and muralist create her original creatures with human emotion, namely humor, which comes from the animals’ eyes. “You can’t do funny without having a great eye. It just doesn’t work if the eye...

“Simply by moving people out of the riverbed, we’re not solving the issue. And I want to make that very clear,” 3rd Dist...
10/09/2025

“Simply by moving people out of the riverbed, we’re not solving the issue. And I want to make that very clear,” 3rd District Santa Barbara County Supervisor Joan Hartmann told the Sun. “There has to be ongoing monitoring and ongoing policing, and that did not happen after the first Santa Ynez Riverbed cleanup.

Santa Barbara County’s tally of tents and forts made of tarps and wooden planks in the Santa Ynez Riverbed is 85 fewer than seven months ago thanks to an ongoing cleanup initiative. In her role as the county’s encampment response coordination manager, Katherine Soto-Vasquez doesn’t often dwell...

With new blood on the Buellton City Council after August’s mail-in election, a familiar face returns to the Planning Com...
10/08/2025

With new blood on the Buellton City Council after August’s mail-in election, a familiar face returns to the Planning Commission. The 4th District seat on both boards had been empty since January.

With new blood on the Buellton City Council after August’s mail-in election, a familiar face returns to the Planning Commission. “I’m honored to have the opportunity to continue serving,” three-year Buellton resident Daniel Contreras told the Sun. “Having previously served on the commissio...

Customers drive to Lompoc from as far as Los Osos for tea parties at One Room Escapes and Coffee. It’s one of the only p...
10/06/2025

Customers drive to Lompoc from as far as Los Osos for tea parties at One Room Escapes and Coffee. It’s one of the only places on the Central Coast for a proper, yet affordable, afternoon tea.

Customers drive to Lompoc from as far as Los Osos for tea parties at One Room Escapes and Coffee. It’s one of the only places on the Central Coast for a proper, yet affordable, afternoon tea with tiny sandwiches and sweets served on dainty china. Clusters of sofas and lounge chairs create smaller ...

A Personal Point of View is up at Gallery Los Olivos through the end of October. It features watercolors, pastels, and o...
10/03/2025

A Personal Point of View is up at Gallery Los Olivos through the end of October. It features watercolors, pastels, and oils by three longtime friends.

Renée Kelleher’s journey as an artist took off when she started painting murals at her elementary school. Then, in junior high, an art teacher saw potential and encouraged her to attend the California College of Arts and Crafts one summer. “My teachers were all French, and it was live n**e mode...

Accepting the fact that her wages at year 31 of her cafeteria job are equal to most fast food employees on day one wasn’...
10/02/2025

Accepting the fact that her wages at year 31 of her cafeteria job are equal to most fast food employees on day one wasn’t a problem for Cheryl Ausan until recently, she said, when talks between her labor union and a local school district about a raise dispute reached a boiling point.

This October marks Cheryl Ausan’s 31st year making breakfast and lunch for hundreds of schoolchildren a day. She’s been stationed in cafeteria kitchens within the Santa Maria-Bonita School District (SMBSD) for all 31 of those years. For the past 20, she’s held the title of food service worker ...

An effort to restart the Santa Ynez Unit and its affiliated oil pipelines—including the line that caused 2015’s Refugio ...
10/01/2025

An effort to restart the Santa Ynez Unit and its affiliated oil pipelines—including the line that caused 2015’s Refugio oil spill—is at the center of 21 criminal charges the county DA's Office recently filed.

Three oil rigs. Five felony counts. More than a dozen misdemeanor violations. The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office joined the list of agencies Sable Offshore is under fire from in courtroom settings after filing criminal charges against the Texas-based oil company on Sept. 18. Each ...

Patti Jacquemain's mosaics and woodblock prints in her Wild in California exhibit are up at the California Nature Art Mu...
09/30/2025

Patti Jacquemain's mosaics and woodblock prints in her Wild in California exhibit are up at the California Nature Art Museum in Solvang until Feb. 23.

Growing up in Santa Barbara, Patti Jacquemain spent a lot of her time drawing and riding horses. She lived on a lemon ranch and said she always deeply cared for the wildlife and wild places that she saw on horseback.  The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History also had a big impact on her childhoo...

Hoping to score a vantage point that gives Santa Barbara County a clearer view of local ICE operations, the Board of Sup...
09/25/2025

Hoping to score a vantage point that gives Santa Barbara County a clearer view of local ICE operations, the Board of Supervisors recently asked the Sheriff’s Office to publicly disclose its interactions with the federal agency on a regular basis.

Hoping to score a vantage point that gives Santa Barbara County a clearer view of local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, the Board of Supervisors recently asked the Sheriff’s Office to publicly disclose its interactions with the federal agency on a regular basis. Disclosures o...

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