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Holiday Guide 2024 - Santa Maria Sun
Nov 21, 2024 · Don’t blink or the year might be over. Before that happens, you’ve got to revel in the spirit of the holiday season! And I don’t just mean when the big man in red comes to deliver all those things you want.
Housing, homelessness highlighted in 2nd District City Council Race
Aug 29, 2024 · SANTA MARIA NATIVE: Benjamin Ortiz was born and raised in Santa Maria’s District 2 and is running for the Santa Maria City Council seat against Mike Cordero and Gloria Flores in the November general election.
Santa Barbara County Planning Commission approves Santa Ynez …
Nov 7, 2024 · Whether you’re for or against oil operations in Santa Barbara County, you’re passionate about that position.But that decades-long debate turned up a notch at a recent Santa Barbara County Planning Commission meeting. “Coming to the Planning Commission hearings or Board [of Supervisors] hearings is a really important part of our public process,” Planning and Development Director Lisa ...
It’s never too late | Canary | Santa Maria Sun
Dec 5, 2024 · That puts the wee little Central Coast on par with Los Angeles and Oakland!Wow: 14 percent. I wonder what that’s going to look like in four or eight more years? Will it hit 20 percent some day?
A century of stories: Santa Maria Inn celebrates 100 years
May 10, 2017 · The Santa Maria Inn celebrates 100 years of operations this month, and the hotel plans to mark the occasion with a special open house event. In 1904, a man named Frank McCoy came to the Santa Maria Valley for the same reason …
Solvang committee re-evaluates juice bar signage after improper ...
Dec 28, 2023 · A local smoothie shop’s six-month journey toward displaying a new wall sign didn’t go as smoothly as its owner hoped, thanks to initial backlash from the Solvang Design Review Committee (DRC).. Miguel Limon, owner of Sano Pecado in downtown Solvang, requested permission from the DRC in May to put up new signage at the juice bar. The proposal was denied on subjective grounds, but re ...
State of the City highlights new Santa Maria businesses, future ...
Nov 2, 2022 · Several businesses on Betteravia Road in Santa Maria celebrated grand openings this year, including a fast food joint that helped solidify Mayor Alice Patino’s nickname for the street, “chicken alley.”. When Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers opened during the spring, it joined the likes of Chick-fil-A, Popeyes, and El Pollo Loco, each with a location on Betteravia.
Issues and action - Santa Maria Sun
Dec 12, 2024 · In a first for Lompoc, the city now has an environmental justice element.. City staff may have swung this one through the council in the nick of time! Mayor Jenelle Osborne is on the way out and Mayor Elect Jim Mosby is on his way in. I can’t imagine any sort of environmental justice anything happening under his watch.
SLO, Santa Barbara County nonprofits provide health care during ...
Oct 10, 2024 · STIs, emergency care, and substance use are some of the health issues facing the unhoused population that calls the Santa Maria Riverbed home. Nonprofits and local agencies providing health services to encamped residents and those transitioning to temporary housing situations said it’s been challenging to stay in contact with some of …