Montecitans Debate Exit Strategy
Caltrans proposes carpool lanes for 101.
Year: 2011
City Workers to Remove Broken Brick Crosswalks
City workers will remove the brick crosswalks at three intersections along Cabrillo Boulevard because they were defective from the start and have since defied all efforts at repair.
Hospital Housing Sparks Complaints
Neighbors are upset about truck traffic and dust.
Chumash Ask to be Excluded from Marine Protected Areas
Early next year when the state closes sections of the Santa Barbara County coast to fishing as Marine Protected Areas, or MPAs, there still might be a small number of people out there hunting for sea life, as the Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians is petitioning this week before the state Fish and Game Commission to be exempted from the closures
Good Budget News, Bad Budget News
While the State of California is $1.5 billion behind in revenues over the first four months of its fiscal year, Santa Barbara County’s General Fund has a net positive variance of $2.87 million, according to staff.
Poverty Study Abandoned
Supervisors vote against spending $30,000 for probe.
County to Disallow Elected Officials to Rack Up Vacation Hours
The county will be eliminating the ability of elected officials to cash out on vacation accrual.
Sharon Jones Is Bringing Motown Back
Poor Man’s Poison plays the Brewhouse, Carpinteria’s Playhouse gets a Santa Barbara Independent–approved makeover.
Homeless Receive Preventative Health Care
Santa Barbara’s homeless residents got three days of access to all kinds of preventive health care this week during the seventh annual Project Healthy Neighbors fair.
Antioch, SBCC Finalize Unique Transfer Program
Antioch University Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College signed an agreement on Wednesday morning that formalized a unique transfer arrangement between the two schools.