January 28, 2023
Tag: Plaza de Vera Cruz
Plans for a New Jeff Shelton Building Downtown
Plus: Three more Santa Barbara Bowl shows announced; fencing proposed for Plaza de Vera Cruz park; East Beach sewage contamination; Acorn and Oak fitness and wellness studio opening on Hollister Avenue; Romero Canyon bridge is damaged again; group show by a dozen local women artists. 5
March 28, 2022
Grocery Workers Vote to Call a Strike
But no date has been set yet. Other recent news: Branding Santa Barbara as Silicon Riviera; trapeze school to extend its stay in Vera Cruz Park; 332-apartment complex proposed for Goleta; neat houses featured in Santa Barbara magazine; Hearst Castle will finally reopen; Letter Perfect stationery shop has left Coast Village Road; Instagram retools its algorithm to favor video (so sign up for the email newsletter!). 10
January 13, 2022
December 27, 2021
September 14, 2021
May 14, 2021
The Trapeze School Is Moving Downtown
Other recent news: People who won't return a lost dog to its owners; Santa Barbara Police Department investigation finds no wrongdoing; the Richard Neutra house that caught on fire was destroyed; more Cold Spring School absurdity; Highway 101 wildlife passage delay; could Oxnard and Camarillo airports start allowing commercial flights?; Community Choice Energy approved by the Santa Barbara City Council; California Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles will return this summer; Reseda's semi-secret Cactus Ranch. 1
March 15, 2021
February 3, 2021
Burning Questions
- What Are Those Old Buildings at the Corner of Castillo and Montecito Streets?
- When Will the Coast Village Road Medians Be Completed?
- What’s This Scaffold Structure on Las Positas Road?
- Why Does Street Striping Take So Long to Happen?
- Why Do Rocket Launches Look the Way They Do?
- How Is the San Ysidro Debris Basin Designed to Work?
- What’s This Building on Helena Avenue?
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