Porter Spencer

Copies of The Independent are showing up in far-flung corners of the world, but this shot from Porter Spencer—who manages hydraulic lift equipment for Bardex Corporation in Goleta—was the first we’ve seen from Asia, specifically Batangas in the Philippines.

Bob Potter, 1934-2010

What most of us friends, his five bereaved children and stepchild, and his wife and three former wives (his life was complicated) know best is that what underlay all of his activities was an unquenchable kindness.

Highway 101 to Get Third Lane

If all goes according to multi-faceted Caltrans plans, a third lane will be added sometime in the next five or six years to both sides of Highway 101 between Mussel Shoals and the east end Santa Barbara.

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