volume 25, number 305, November 17-23, 2011
On the Inside with Ben Greenspon, S.B.’s Bank-Robbing Son
Year: 2011
Unnecessary Density
There’s an easy way to escape the state mandate that localities accommodate endless housing growth.
Week in Sports Update
Three basketball games coming to the Thunderdome. SBCC soccer teams play Saturday.
Trail Stewards Launch Meetup Web Site
Four Santa Barbara trail organizations have banded together to create a “Meetup” Web site, through which visitors can chat about the outdoors and organize volunteer projects like beach cleanup and habitat restoration initiatives.
Supes Decline to Help Pay for Plastic Bag Ban Report
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors decided not to chip in $15,000 toward a regional environmental impact report (EIR) on the banning of single use bags as a member of BEACON, or Beach Erosion Authority for Clean Oceans and Nourishment.
Santa Ynez Ranch Owners Help Pay for Zaca Fire
The owners of a Santa Ynez ranch have now paid $17 million to state and federal authorities in partial compensation for the cost of putting out the Zaca Fire in 2007, which consumed 228,000 acres of backcountry, making it the second largest in California history.
El Encanto Gets $45 Million
Historic hotel expected to reopen in late 2012.
Bye-Bye to Backcountry Fishing?
To save the endangered steelhead, environmentalists are working to shut down anglers on the Sespe and Sisquoc creeks.
New Protection Rules Proposed for Mobile-Home Owners
Mobile-home owners in Santa Barbara County are on edge as new rules are being proposed to protect them in the event that their landlords decide to sell the land beneath them.
Isla Vista Foot Patrol Station Hit with Firebombs
Two Molotov cocktails cause minor damage but no injuries.