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Scenes during the floods in Santa Barbara County include kayaking down the Eastside, a stray end table floating away, and debris rakers on Hutash Bridge.
To catch up on our storm coverage, click on the link in our bio or visit .
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In case you’ve ever wondered how air tankers fill up with water, here’s two of them at Lake Cachuma on Friday afternoon, continuing to fight the
#AlisalFire
. | Credit: Jim Kunkle
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Reader Brian Peyton caught a glimpse of flooding at Toro Canyon Creek as Santa Barbara County orders an evacuation of homes along Montecito's waterways.
For storm updates, visit .
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Reader Sarah Bacon captured footage of the crumbling road at Cold Spring Trailhead’s Mountain Drive following this week’s storm in Santa Barbara County.
To catch up on our storm coverage, click on the link in our bio or visit .
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When
@SBIFF
’s campaign to raise funds for Direct Relief in Ukraine fell short of its $100,000 goal, Benedict Cumberbatch stepped in to finish the job.
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The proof is in the video: it really does snow in Santa Barbara County! Reader Levi Durrer submitted these snowboarding videos from Painted Cave on Thursday.
For more weather updates, visit .
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After record-setting rains, first responders reported no one had been killed by the storm, no one was missing, and no major injuries were sustained.
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A consulting architect on UCSB’s Design Review Committee quit his post in protest over the university’s proposed Munger Hall project, calling the mostly-windowless dorm plan “unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent, and a human being."
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Reader Billy Spencer shared scenes from Highway 101 at North Jamison as the storm in Santa Barbara rages on.
For storm updates, visit .
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Q&A | Our Executive Arts Editor
@IndyCharles
spoke with Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart following a screening of 'Spencer' at the
@SBIFF
Riviera Theater in February.
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#StormWatch
| Current
#flood
conditions at Romero Canyon Road, north of Sheffield Drive. The debris basins at Romero and Cold Spring canyons spilled around around 9 a.m.
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Maeve Juarez with Montecito Fire said the debris basins at Romero and Cold Spring canyons spilled around around 9 a.m. and Ashley Road was impassable. In Montecito, there is an active debris flow in the E Valley Road and Oak Grove Road area.
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Fandemonium was in full force as
@SBIFF
presented the Cinema Vanguard Award to Benedict Cumberbatch in Santa Barbara on March 9.
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UC Santa Barbara Dining-Hall Workers to Form Union
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Officials advise cancellation of all classes in Santa Barbara County due to extreme and unpredictable weather conditions, continued road closures, and flooding.
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About 150 students walked out of a planned event during Westmont College’s chapel service Monday morning, protesting the scheduled speaker Lila Rose, founder and president of the nation’s largest anti-abortion organization, Live Action.
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The longtime Santa Barbara deejay Mike Dawson, who now works for
@AdamCarolla
in Los Angeles, returns to Santa Barbara with his band
@TheSmokinKills
to play
@SOhOSB
on September 16.
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Reader John MacFarlane submitted this view of Mountain Drive at Cold Spring Trailhead following the storm on the afternoon of January 10.
To catch up on our storm coverage, click on the link in our bio or visit .
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#StormWatch
| Montecito Creek running full speed Saturday morning before it connects to the ocean near Hammond’s Beach.
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Jeanne Umana, the Santa Barbara woman who went viral on social media for harassing a Latino construction worker, could now be charged with a hate crime, trespassing, and battery, according to police spokesperson Ethan Ragsdale.
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In the wake of this year’s string of winter storms, Lake Cachuma is brimming and Santa Barbara County water officials are breathing a momentary sigh of relief that things are looking up for local water supplies.
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Voices: The British tabloid headline read: “EXCLUSIVE: Meghan and Harry ‘close to selling £11 million home as neighbours are sick of them.’” The “neighbor” in question was one Barry Maher. Me. The only “neighbor” in the article.
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Santa Barbara’s DA files new charges against Justin Obinna Asinobi, 22, for allegedly planting hidden cameras.
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Nick Welsh catches up with
@JulianCastro
ahead of the former Democratic presidential candidate’s stop in Santa Barbara to kick off UCSB
@ArtsandLectures
’ Justice for All series tonight at 7:30 p.m.
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Reader Michelle Castellino shared this photo of a black bear captured on a trail camera on August 7 in the Santa Barbara Foothills. "I think it’s a male based on head shape, ear size, placement and sheer girth," she says. "A lot of males coming through looking for a mate."
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Mike Eliason (
@SBCFireInfo
) captured the mountains and Painted Cave Road dusted with snow ahead of a potential blizzard. If you've snapped any photos of snow in Santa Barbara County this week, feel free to send them to webteam
@independent
.com!
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#StormWatch
| All evacuation orders have been lifted as of 9am today in Santa Barbara County. 📸: Patricia Fancher
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For the first time in over a decade, Lake Cachuma is spilling. The Santa Barbara reservoir is at nearly 100 percent capacity thanks to winter storms.
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Santa Barbara schools canceled their afternoon classes today, in the hope that parents will be able to come pick up their children before the biggest part of this storm hits around 3 p.m.
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Santa Barbara Congressmember Salud Carbajal announced he is endorsing Kamala Harris, one of California’s two senators, in her bid to secure the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
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The most active section of the
#AlisalFire
today has been in the corner of Gaviota closest to the 101 headed toward Lompoc, but hot spots smoldered deep in the canyons, sending up "smokes" from interior pockets of heat that helicopters were zeroing in on.
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ExxonMobil is abandoning its legal challenge against Santa Barbara county, effectively ending the company’s proposal to transport truckloads of oil up and down the coast and halting its plan to revive three shutdown drilling platforms on the Gaviota coast.
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Today at around 11:36 A.M., fighter jets with the California Air National Guard will fly above Santa Barbara to honor health-care workers, first responders, and essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Everyone is welcome to participate in the event from their homes!
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In a Q&A,
@danielhowell
talks about fame, sexuality, Jesus, slutty nun costumes, and his favorite Taylor Swift song.
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Two of the same dogs that searched for survivors in Montecito following 2018’s deadly 1/9 Debris Flow are now doing the same in Turkey after powerful earthquakes rocked that country, Syria, and surrounding regions.
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The
#AlisalFire
is currently at 0% containment. Winds are expected to reach up to 70 miles per hour overnight. Nearly 100 structures could be affected if the fire reaches the top of Tajiguas Canyon.
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Recent Santa Barbara arrival Michael J. Fox reflects on the pandemic, mortality, and life in Montecito.
#MichaelJFox
#Montecito
#NoTimeLiketheFuture
#ParkinsonsDisease
#FoxFoundation
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Santa Barbara health-care activist
@AdyBarkan
held a hometown screening for the documentary
@NotGoingQuiet
— a cohesive tale of his diagnosis with ALS, his subsequent loss of many major motor functions, and his fight for universal health care.
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UCSB
@ArtsandLectures
will deliver a full season of live events at multiple venues throughout Santa Barbara in 2021 and 2022 with guests including
@JulianCastro
, Roxane Gay (
@rgay
), and
@JasonIsbell
.
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Mandatory evacuations have been expanded to cover the area north of Cathedral Oaks between La Patera and Patterson, affecting at least 1,200 residences in Goleta as the
#HolidayFire
burns on.
Find an interactive map and the latest coverage at .
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A young male gray wolf who broke from his Oregon pack in search of new territory and a mate has made his way all the way to the Central Coast, marking the first time in more than a century that the species has been detected here.
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Last week, the Hope Ranch “volcano” rumbled awake and started a small, smoldering fire on a section of the bluffs about a mile west of Arroyo Burro Beach.
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S.B. County officials are now warning residents to be on the lookout for rental listing scams, which are increasing both countywide and across the country as scammers become more aggressive in their tactics and the demand for affordable housing rises.
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Here's some shots of Benedict Cumberbatch showing support for Ukraine at his SBIFF tribute. | Credit: Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images for SBIFF
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Announcements | The
@SantaBarbaraZoo
has welcomed two Goeldi’s monkeys, George Michael and Jimi.
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Shantay Legans began his ascent in organized basketball at the Goleta Boys & Girls Club after he had been banned from other youth gyms in the area. “I had the worst attitude when I was 10, 11 years old,” he confessed.
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Famously known by her stage name, P!nk, Alecia Moore has been quietly immersing herself & her family into the fabric of the Santa Ynez Valley. This week's cover story is about her life away from the spotlight and release of wines from her Two Wolves estate
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Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Santa Barbara County due to the major storm.
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Henry Yang never saw fit to announce Dormzilla’s demise. In fact, he never once saw fit to issue a single public utterance on the subject — not one — at least to the community he lives in.
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Operation Lift Up Santa Barbara is the first time in nine weeks that restaurants will be allowed to open their doors to customers both inside and out.
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An inmate crew travels along the bed of Montecito Creek, where last week’s mudslide claimed dozens of homes. The crew of twelve are among more than 500 inmates who have been searching to rescue or recover the missing in the aftermath of last week’s disas…
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Geologists from UCSB are closer to understanding the Great Unconformity, the more than one billion years’ worth of missing rock in various places around the globe, including the Grand Canyon.
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Inspired by recent heavy rains, the new temporary day center for homeless people — which just opened at 12 East Carrillo Street — will provide all-day emergency shelter from the upcoming storm.
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KEYT’s John Palminteri may be the single nicest guy among the ranks of broadcast news reporters. That is, unless you mess with his live shots.
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Opinion | "Please take down that weird black rope that says 'Guests Only.' It is on public property...It was wrong for the Miramar to ask us to leave our own beach yesterday, and it definitely upset our kids."
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It’s something like a California rainbow. After years of drought and fires, heavy rainfall reawakens dormant native wildflower seeds, sprouting “superblooms” across the state and attracting visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the rare phenomenon.
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The Lord Mayor of Copenhagen sent a letter Tuesday to her counterpart in Solvang, urging Mayor Mark Infanti and the city council to give their “full support” to the town’s LGBTQ community.
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In Santa Barbara, a rumble of thunder and the sudden appearance of a rainbow unleashed a surprise show in the South Coast skies, sending residents scrambling with cell phone cameras and photography equipment to catch a glimpse of the show.
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The corner of Garden & Micheltorena Streets were packed Sunday night as demonstrators shut down the street for several hours in response to viral videos showing a Santa Barbara woman harassing a construction worker and using racially derogatory language.
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As to the oft-remarked observation that Murray is one of those screen icons who make it look easy, he noted that “someone said in the last movie, ‘oh, you’re just playing yourself.’ Well, you know, ‘it’s harder than you think to be yourself...’”
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County Sheriff Bill Brown said evacuation orders will be issued for the burn scar areas of the Alisal, Cave, and Thomas fires after flash flood warnings elapse this evening.
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Cover Story | Meet Roke Fukumura: baseball star, internment camp survivor, and hardworking hometown hero in Santa Barbara.
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#HolidayFire
Update: The 100-acre fire is 80% contained as of 5pm today. Some mandatory evacuation areas have been downgraded to voluntary and Fire Chief Eric Peterson expects full containment by Wednesday, June 11th.
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UCSB
@ArtsandLectures
presents
@JasonIsbell
and the 400 Unit with
@SadlerVaden
at the Granada in Santa Barbara on Saturday, February 26.
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Former Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham performed at the
@LoberoTheatre
in Santa Barbara on Friday, April 15.
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Here's footage of water dropped on the
#AlisalFire
in Refugio Canyon by a firefighting aircraft. Video by Erick Madrid.
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“It has become clear that voters, both across the country and on the Central Coast, recognize we are better than the divisive politics of Donald Trump,” he said, adding that Biden will provide the “steady and compassionate leadership” the country needs.
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“By confronting fire in this way, it helps us to appreciate what we are asking firefighters to do and can inform our decisions about how we live in this landscape,” said creator Ethan Turpin.
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“Assume that COVID-19 is spreading in your community, assume you are vulnerable, and act accordingly,” said Ansorg.
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"If you’re one of the 100,000-plus people who regularly read the Santa Barbara Independent every week, you probably know my name. I’ve been an employee of this newspaper for more than 20 years now, from proofreader to news reporter to senior editor."
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The entire Montecito community is now under a county evacuation order as the storm continues to surge in Santa Barbara County.
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Cover Story | Here’s an Earth Day update from the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, five years after this 25,000-acre Gaviota Coast ranch was saved.
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Santa Barbara earned the dubious distinction of being named the “most expensive city to be happy” in the U.S. But the report raises another question: If it costs that much to be happy in Santa Barbara, how much does it cost just to exist?
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When McCaw took over, she proceeded to run the paper as if Santa Barbara were her own personal hermit kingdom. From the start, her interaction with the community has been “Talk to the hand.”
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Santa Barbara Airport is adding two new flight destinations with the return of Delta Air Lines, which will begin providing daily nonstop flights to and from Atlanta and Salt Lake City starting June 2024.
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Of the qualifying companies based in Santa Barbara and Goleta, all seven of them now have at least one woman on their boards and most now have two.
#InternationalWomensDay
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Appearing to substantiate reports that UCSB’s Munger Hall has been scrapped, the university issued a “request for qualifications” this week for architectural firms to design a new student housing project at the same location reserved for Munger Hall.
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¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! Presents Monsieur Periné: Colombian Band Plays Free Shows
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To afford the $5,000 a month needed to move into these darling studio apartments, one needs to make about $180,000 a year. That’s far more bacon than most working Santa Barbarans bring home.
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The return of more than 15,000 monarch butterflies to their groves in Goleta sparks hope for the recovery of the species, but gardeners are advised to not plant milkweed in coastal areas.
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The Santa Barbara Bowl updated its public safety policy Monday and announced it would now require everybody, including children 12 and under, to show proof of completed COVID vaccination or a negative test result for entry to its events.
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Here are the latest numbers of
#COVID
ー19 cases in
#SantaBarbara
,
#California
, and the
#UnitedStates
. We will be updating our website with the latest news and information. Follow this link to stay updated
#CoronaVirusUpdates
#CoronaOutbreak
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Dickie Montemayor, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board dropped a $2 million bomb on the Santa Barbara News-Press and its ever-embattled owner, Wendy P. McCaw, for unfair labor practices and bad-faith bargaining.
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Given the unprecedented intensity and volume of the deluge — 13 inches within 24 hours along San Marcos Pass, six inches along the South Coast, and four inches in Northern Santa Barbara County — this information passed as nearly miraculous news.
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The Latest |
@Target
confirmed that plans are afoot for a new store in Goleta at the Kmart location across Storke Road from the Calle Real Marketplace. More than 200 people will be employed at the store.
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Driven to improve and safeguard the health of our oceans through science and technology, Marc and Lynne Benioff have made a gift of $60 million to UC Santa Barbara — the largest ever donation for ocean science at the university.
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Misinformation is harmful. That's why the Independent is disabling comments on posts related to the dangers of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of vaccines.
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Drag queen Miss Angel was nervously excited for her double-header story time the following day. She had received a hateful message the night before, condemning her drag story time practice and attacking her personhood. Yet she remained hopeful.
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Tonight’s school board vote was unanimous. Starting 2023, student curriculum in the Santa Barbara School District will require ethnic studies coursework as prerequisite for graduation.
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[Update: Oct. 11, 8:15 p.m.] The
#AlisalFire
is estimated at over 3,000 acres, with 0% containment. More than 200 firefighters are working overnight to try to contain the fire.
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This is the first pregnancy for Ajax and will be the fourth litter for her partner Kasha, who arrived at the
@SantaBarbaraZoo
in March 2020, just prior to the first round of coronavirus closures.
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As a response to the
#COVID
-19 district shutdown, S.B. Unified School District will offer bagged meals for children 18 years old and younger starting this Monday.
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"The Delicacy', a documentary film about uni, fishermen, human behavior, culinary history, and much more premiered this weekend
@SBIFF
.
#thedelicacy
#seaurchin
#uni
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This past Thursday, about 50 people assembled by the far wall of the Old Mission cemetery lawn to dedicate a large memorial statue to commemorate the Chumash who lived and died under the roof and rule of the early Franciscans.
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The entirety of Santa Barbara County is under a flash flood warning from the deluge overnight and even heavier rains expected between 3 and 7 p.m. today.
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