The Week in Pictures
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Dr. Donte Newman
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James Joyce III
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Jordan Killebrew
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Shante Norwood, owner of Té’Stees Bakery.
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Victor Bryant
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Serkaddis Alemu (center) runs Petit Valentien with her husband, Robert Dixon, while raising their two daughters, Nib Alemu-Dixon and Desta Alemu-Dixon. On weekends, they serve Ethiopian food in La Arcada Court.
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An MD-87 firefighting jet roars up out of a fold in the hills outside Buellton, which are holding the last of Sunday's Drum Fire.
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Hand crews are essential to putting out individual spots of fire.
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A Santa Barbara County fire truck sits atop a charred area from the Drum Fire, just west of Buellton Sunday afternoon.
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A full complement of firefighters and aircraft attacked the Drum Fire.
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Charles Myles, owner of Mylestone BBQ grills tri-tip at Draughtmen Aleworks in Goleta.
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Jesse Thomas and Sojourner Kincaid Rolle
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Ashe Brown, owner of Pura Luna Women's Apothecary.
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Hilda Maldonado, the new Santa Barbara Unified School District Superintendent.
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Artist Chadillac Green fixes the mural of George Floyd and “Please, I can’t breathe” on the side of Eos Lounge after it was defaced Wednesday night.
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