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Santa Maria Sun Northern Santa Barbara County's news and entertainment weekly newspaper, serving California's Central Coast Free every Thursday.

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

For decades, New Times Media Group has asked local photographers to send their best shots our way as part of the annual ...
06/18/2026

For decades, New Times Media Group has asked local photographers to send their best shots our way as part of the annual Winning Images contest. This year, our judges sifted through 374 images to narrow them down to the top three in eight categories.

For decades, New Times Media Group has asked local photographers to send their best shots our way as part of the annual Winning Images contest. Covering categories from Animals and Landscape/Seascape to In Motion and People, the images capture the beauty and strangeness across the Central Coast and....

Trends have changed drastically since Amy Marlan posed for her high school senior portraits.
06/15/2026

Trends have changed drastically since Amy Marlan posed for her high school senior portraits.

Trends have changed drastically since Amy Marlan posed for her high school senior portraits. She remembers wearing the same pearls and drape as the rest of the women in her class. The men put on the top half of a suit. Then, their family photographer took some shots of Marlan on a film camera, but [...

Two 12-foot-tall puppets designed by a Lompoc artist are making a big trip to LA.
06/13/2026

Two 12-foot-tall puppets designed by a Lompoc artist are making a big trip to LA.

Most people have never been the puppeteer inside a 12-foot-tall puppet, but Jennifer Racusin has. “You are completely surrounded by fabric, and you have this big, heavy wooden thing attached to you,” Racusin recounted. “You don’t feel like yourself at all because you’re hidden inside of th...

Tamara Warren has a selectively superb memory. When it comes to her passion for baking, she has muscle memory.
06/12/2026

Tamara Warren has a selectively superb memory. When it comes to her passion for baking, she has muscle memory.

Tamara Warren has a selectively superb memory. When it comes to her passion for baking, she has muscle memory. Anything else, and it can get a little murky. The baker doesn’t keep an ingredient list or measure anything out. Recently she debuted a banana chocolate chip cookie, and somebody asked he...

For SunBuggy Fun Rentals owner Randy Jordan, when the Oceano Dunes reopened to vehicle traffic and campers on May 21, it...
06/11/2026

For SunBuggy Fun Rentals owner Randy Jordan, when the Oceano Dunes reopened to vehicle traffic and campers on May 21, it meant his business could start renting out ATVs, dune buggies, and side-by-sides again.

For SunBuggy Fun Rentals owner Randy Jordan, when the Oceano Dunes reopened to vehicle traffic and campers on May 21, it meant his business could start renting out ATVs, dune buggies, and side-by-sides again. “I think it’s great, and I think you really know how much you’re going to miss someth...

Gayraoke is one of Santa Ynez Valley Pride’s staple community activities throughout June.
06/06/2026

Gayraoke is one of Santa Ynez Valley Pride’s staple community activities throughout June.

Calling all singersPut yourself out there at the Maverick Saloon during gayraoke on Tuesday nights in June at 8 p.m. located at 3687 Sagunto St. in Santa Ynez. Follow karaoke DJ Sam Silva on Instagram . For more information about Santa Ynez Valley Pride activities, visit syvpride.org o...

Visit Lobo Butcher Shop in Roy’s Liquor and Market at 770 Guadalupe St. in Guadalupe.
06/05/2026

Visit Lobo Butcher Shop in Roy’s Liquor and Market at 770 Guadalupe St. in Guadalupe.

Ernesto Valle used to be known as the guy who cuts meat in the middle of nowhere. He opened Lobo Butcher Shop in Guadalupe four and a half years ago when the economy was still hurting from the pandemic. “For a couple months, I thought I was going to shut down in my first year,” […]

June means one thing for the LGBTQ-plus community across the Central Coast and beyond: It’s Pride Month! That translates...
06/04/2026

June means one thing for the LGBTQ-plus community across the Central Coast and beyond: It’s Pride Month! That translates to events in Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo that celebrate the season, including drag shows, concerts, and even plays.

June means one thing for the LGBTQ-plus community across the Central Coast and beyond: It’s Pride Month! That translates to events in Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo that celebrate the season, including drag shows, concerts, and even plays. For our annual Pride issue, Senior Staff Writer Caleb Wis...

Before finishing high school, 26 Orcutt students graduated with two associate degrees from Allan Hancock College.
06/01/2026

Before finishing high school, 26 Orcutt students graduated with two associate degrees from Allan Hancock College.

Jackson Payne took his first college class when he was a freshman in high school. He arrived around 7 a.m. to Orcutt Academy High School. The campus was quiet except for his 29 other classmates in the Early College Cadre program. Soon enough their professor showed up and introduced the group members...

Director Alexandria Corn and many former dancers in the Pacific Legends felt a hole in their lives when the group disban...
05/30/2026

Director Alexandria Corn and many former dancers in the Pacific Legends felt a hole in their lives when the group disbanded during the pandemic. Corn took charge in 2025, starting to teach Polynesian dance classes and schedule community performances.

Michelle Lujan looks back at her wedding day with bittersweetness because although she didn’t know it at the time, the December day in 2019 was the last time the Pacific Legends danced before the pandemic exploded. “To me, that’s like the marker of when it ended, but we had no idea,” Lujan t...

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