Archive » July 5, 2012

Feeding the hungry

Vol. 10 Issue 27

The carrots too crooked to sell, the lettuce not quite ready on picking day, the fields more full than the orders for produce – it’s about rescuing veggies for the hungry.

Santa Ynez Valley real estate tides are turning

“All of those people who have been sitting on the sidelines are coming out,” said Barbara Morr, a local real estate agent....

Buellton council adopts budget, spares deputy position

Although not as bad as it could have been, budget woes have forced the Buellton City Council to switch the city’s substation to a twice-a-week operation and to eliminate the community resource deputy position....

Meet your superintendent: Paul Turnbull

The plan was to be an English teacher. Sometimes things don’t go according to plan – sometimes things work out even better....

Movie reviews

Magic Kingdom; grin and bear Ted; good People...

Ex-Lakers help break in new camp court

As David Fields helped lead a group of nearly 150 campers at the Circle V Ranch Camp in the Valley onto a grass field to stretch next to their new basketball court, the executive director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul kept getting familiar questions from the...

Sheriff's blotter

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