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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
The body of a 14-year-old Goleta girl who had been missing since Monday night was discovered yesterday in the brush along Highway 101. California Highway Patrol officials said the investigation is being considered a hit-and-run collision.
Authorities confirmed the body was that of Christina Veloz-Payne at 5 p.m., about five hours after a Caltrans
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A Superior Court judge denied a motion by the attorney of Jesse James Hollywood, the alleged mastermind behind the slaying of a 15-year-old boy, to rule out the death penalty as a possible sentence yesterday.
“This seems a bit premature,” Judge Brian Hill said. “We haven’t even got to the point of guilt or innocence to the charges filed.”
He said
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Santa Barbara Police officers arrested two men yesterday for allegedly kicking a 57-year-old man in the face after he told the duo he didn’t have any money.
Sgt. Lorenzo Duarte, a police spokesman, said the victim was walking to work with his 17-year-old daughter in the 200 block of north Milpas St. on Wednesday when the assault occurred.
The victim
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Aug. 28, 11:40 p.m. — Nightlife enforcement officers on patrol received a phone call from security personnel at Tonic nightclub about a woman using a false ID. Police arrived and examined the Brazilian passport being used by the woman as identification. Officers immediately spotted discrepancies in facial structure and questioned the woman.
She admitted to being an 18-year-old Santa Barbara
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BY BENJAMIN GOTTLIEB
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
In an emblematic display of community support, the Junior League of Santa Barbara (JLSB) awarded $6,100 in grant money this week in support of six new programs designed by Santa Barbara nonprofit organizations.
Known as the Community Assistance Fund, the JLSB grant awards funds to local organizations which help improve the lives of at-risk children,
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BY GINA PERRY
Nothing embodies the societal standard set for women better than the Enjoli perfume commercial from the 70s. In it, a gorgeous, seductive blonde sings, “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan. And never, never let you forget you’re a man. . . cause I’m a woman.” I can still hum the tune.
Unfortunately, women in America are still judged by different standards than men.
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BY CHERI RAE
Since Helen Reddy’s bold anthem, “I am Woman” rang across the land, women have been empowered to go for it in ways previous generations never could. I’ve been privileged to personally witness females making great strides toward gender equality in a series of memorable “firsts.”
As a sports writer, I regularly interviewed and profiled accomplished athletes for Women’s Sports and
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
As local leaders aggressively prepare for potential mudslides and floods in the areas below the Gap Fire in Goleta, the U.S. Forest Service released its report on the fire’s impact and recommended treatments.
Known as the Burned Area Emergency Response, or BAER, report, the 40-page document describes the 9,544 acres of land scorched by the Gap Fire in
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF
Santa Barbara police arrested two men who assaulted a 58-year-old local man on Tuesday after the attack was witnessed by an off-duty police officer.
Authorities received reports of the assault from witnesses near Cabrillo Boulevard and Calle Cesar Chavez at 7:01 p.m. on Tuesday and arrived to find medics treating the victim, Sgt. Lorenzo Duarte said.
The
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
In a place where art is expected to be hung on the wall, Brenda Simon and Emily Stuart are creating art on plates and bowls.
As the new proprietors of the Museum Café at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Simon and Stuart launched their art-themed menu earlier this week and are already hitting their stride.
“We were swamped through yesterday’s lunch and
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Ed Harris, who has starred in such films as “Gone Baby Gone,” “Apollo 13,” “The Truman Show,” and “The Right Stuff,” will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film, festival officials announced yesterday.
SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling called Harris an “actor’s actor,” and lauded the
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BY STEVEN LIBOWITZ
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
At first it seemed like Todd Rogers’ Olympic dreams were all coming crashing down around him.
He had struggled for so long since first hitting East Beach 17 years ago. There was that dream of a Gold Medal that had prompted him to first leave behind Dax Holdren, his hometown boyhood partner – whom he watched reach the Olympics in 2004 with another
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Santa Barbara County sheriff’s detectives are looking for a missing 14-year-old Goleta girl who was last seen at the city’s fireworks show on Monday night at Girsh Park.
Sgt. Alex Tipolt, a sheriff spokesman, said the missing girl is Christina Veloz-Payne. He said the girl went to the fireworks show with friends, but before the show could begin,
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Five people charged with murder in connection to the stabbing death of a 16-year-old Santa Barbara boy will stand trial, a Superior Court judge ruled yesterday during the defendants’ preliminary hearing.
Judge Clifford Anderson handed down the ruling after hearing testimony from several witnesses during the 10-day hearing.
All of those who took the
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Police arrested a local man on Friday after he attempted to rob a convenience store and pulled a knife when employees and patrons fought back.
Officers arrived at the 7-Eleven at 331 W. Montecito St. after reports of a subject with a knife being detained by store employees, according to police documents. After authorities handcuffed the suspect, they
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DAILY SOUND STAFF REPORT
Aug. 26, 4:30 p.m. — After driving around town on a round of errands, a 49-year-old Santa Barbara man called police to report his car as missing. He told authorities he made several stops when he noticed his sunglasses were missing. After making more stops in an attempt to find his sunglasses, he told officers he forgot where he had parked his car.
The man said he
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A 66-year-old woman described by family as a passionate and caring volunteer died after being hit by a suspected drunk driver while jogging with a group of people along Las Positas Road on Saturday morning.
Police officials said Carolyn Ruddell Samuels of Santa Barbara was hit by a van at 7:35 a.m. while running in the southbound bike lane approximately
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BY JOHN DICKSON
Santa Barbara Water Taxi (the harbor’s passenger-carrying yellow tug boat, "Lil’ Toot") now offers a whole new waterfront experience in harbor dining. Teaming up with Fresco Cafe and Buttonwood Winery, Lil’ Toot now transforms into “Chez Toot” on weekend evenings. Lil’ Toot makes its sunset transformation into Chez Toot offering a sit-down dining experience with culinary
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Part-time Montecito billionaire Harold Simmons, who contributed millions in 2004 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks on then-presidential candidate John Kerry, has reportedly spent $2.87 million on ads in Ohio and Pennsylvania that attack Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama, according to the blog Huffingtonpost.com.
The ads,
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Spirits are high in an evacuation shelter three hours northwest of Baton Rouge, La., where more than 650 people are waiting out Hurricane Gustav.
Swirls of wind and rain keep kids from spending too much time playing outside on the campus of Northwestern State University, but the Red Cross shelter has escaped any serious weather effects.
People set up
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BY STEVEN LIBOWITZ
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
Under bright blue skies boasting balmy weather in sharp contrast to the hurricane in the Southeast that led to the curtailing of the opening of the Republican National Convention in Minnesota, Santa Barbara County Democrats held their annual Labor Day picnic barbecue to launch the fall campaigns.
Gathering in Oak Park, a crowd estimated at 250 heard
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BY BENJAMIN GOTTLIEB
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
Restaurant goers sporting iPhones will now have a leg up in choosing where to dine locally, as yesterday marked the launch of a new local restaurant guide made specifically for the iPhone.
Known as the SantaBarbara.com Restaurant Guide, the new application utilizes the iPhone’s built in user interface abilities to aid in choosing an eatery –
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BY BENJAMIN GOTTLIEB
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
UC Santa Barbara continues to cultivate praise for its academic achievements, as the U.S. News & World Report has ranked the university number 12 in its annual listing of the “Top 50 Public Universities” and number 44 on its list of the “Best National Universities.”
Published this week, the September 1 issue of “America’s Best Colleges” profiles
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
In three weeks, a lot can happen in the world of planning and development in Montecito.
Over that span of time, the Montecito Planning Commission went from near unanimous agreement that more environmental review was needed before it could allow developer Rick Caruso to realize his vision for the shuttered Miramar Hotel, to a unanimous vote yesterday that
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
With occasional puffs of smoke trailing off behind them, a group of more than 100 people marched up State Street yesterday from Stearns Wharf to the County Courthouse to show their support for local medical marijuana dispensaries.
The dispensaries, of which eight remain in the city of a pool that once numbered nearly 20, have come under attack from the
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
When Alfred Moir dug into the archives of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s permanent collection more than 30 years ago, he stumbled across a group of prints that made his heart skip a beat or two.
For the next three decades, he begged, pleaded and harangued with the powers that be for an opportunity to showcase his find.
In a few days, he’ll get his
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A Superior Court judge who had ordered that his courtroom be closed to the public during a preliminary hearing for five people facing murder charges, opened it yesterday, a day after the Daily Sound published a story about the First Amendment implications of such a closure.
Defense attorney Joseph Allen, legal counsel for 16-year-old Ruben Nicholas Mize,
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A 15-month-old child was hospitalized after being pulled from the bottom of a backyard pool in Carpinteria, authorities said.
Emergency crews arrived at the home in the 1300 block of Linden Avenue, where family members met them curbside with the unconscious girl. Charlie Johnson, a spokesman for the Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District, said
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Health officials revealed the first West Nile Virus-related incident of the year in Santa Barbara County, reporting that a crow tested positive for the virus in the Santa Barbara area.
One of 10 birds from the county tested since the beginning of the year, the crow is the first found to be infected with the illness, health officials said.
“This confirms
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Laguna Park circa 1940. They paved (baseball) paradise, and put up a (bus) parking lot.
BY CHERI RAE
During the dark days of the Depression, Santa Barbara gained more than its share from the Federal program known as the Works Progress Administration. Local civic leaders lobbied for Federal tax dollars to restore the Sheffield Reservoir and build the Los Banos Pool, the Main Post Office Building
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BY GINA PERRY
“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.”
— David Barry, writer and humorist
School started on Monday and while the public elementary schools my children attend are excellent, I am always peeved that a second language is
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DAILY SOUND STAFF REPORT
A 65-year-old San Diego resident who broke her neck while competing in the Santa Barbara Triathlon last Saturday, died Tuesday night in Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
Barbara Warren, who according to the San Diego Union Tribune is one of the most accomplished endurance athletes in that city, sustained the injury after crashing on her bike during the 34-mile bike ride
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Authorities have two suspects in custody on suspicion of robbing several Santa Barbara residents at gunpoint in their home more than a month ago, police officials confirmed.
The investigation began on July 22, when officers arrived in the 1800 block of Bath Street after receiving reports of an altercation possibly involving a gun, Sgt. Lorenzo Duarte of
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A semitrailer hauling asparagus caught fire on Highway 101 near Los Alamos early yesterday morning, closing down a lane of the highway into the afternoon.
Authorities received reports of a big rig with a wheel on fire still traveling along the roadway at approximately 3:30 a.m., according to California Highway Patrol dispatchers. Ten minutes later,
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Greka Energy workers can return to the job at the company’s UCAL facility on Dominion Road after county officials conditionally rescinded a stop-work order for the site.
Greka employees are allowed to begin pumping oil as long as county fire officials and oil inspectors are notified in advanced, authorities said.
County staff must also be allowed to
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BY LESLIE WESTBROOK
It seems to be on most people’s lips and it starts with the letter “D”. No, I’m not talking about the Democratic Convention taking place this week in Denver, I’m talking about the economic depression.
Everyone I have spoken with over the last few weeks is concerned about the economy and their income. I’m not just speaking about the poor, working or middle class. Even the
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DAILY SOUND SPORTS REPORT
The UC Santa Barbara women’s volleyball team will open the 2008 season this weekend at the Cal Molten Classic in Berkeley.
The Gauchos will take-on 2007 NCAA Regional qualifier St. John’s on Saturday at 1 p.m. before facing the tournament host, No. 5 Cal, on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. This week’s is the first of four season-opening tournaments as the Gauchos begin 2008 with a
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BY DAVE LOVETON
Every player on the SBCC women’s golf team is new this season but that doesn’t mean they don’t know each other. In fact, it’s the complete opposite with two-thirds of the team comprised of two sets of sisters.
“It’s certainly unusual,” said ninth-year head coach Chuck Melendez. “This might be the hardest working group I’ve ever had and they’ve got great character.”
The Sim
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
After eight and a half hours of grappling with the possible benefits of expanded offshore oil drilling, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors yesterday voted to send a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger announcing the county’s willingness to embrace more drilling.
The controversial letter was met with strong opposition from environmental groups, who
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge ordered that his courtroom be closed to the public during a preliminary hearing for six people who are charged with murder in connection to the stabbing death of a 16-year-old boy, according to the prosecutor assigned to the case.
The preliminary hearing began on Aug. 19 in the Department 14 courtroom of Judge
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A proposal to convert Carpinteria’s former elementary school into an early childhood resource center earned a unanimous nod of approval from city leaders despite concerns expressed by some residents about parking impacts on the surrounding neighborhood.
After several hours of public testimony, the City Council determined the project had met its parking
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Whether the task was capturing a devastating fire, the faces of a high-profile court case or the birth of a new animal at the zoo, Daily Sound Staff Photographer Janelle Holcombe could be counted on to deliver.
Her images adorned the front page of the Daily Sound nearly every day since the paper’s first edition rolled off the presses on March 23, 2006.
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Aug. 20, 10:50 p.m. — Authorities took a 36-year-old Santa Barbara man into custody for a domestic assault that occurred a week earlier in the presence of a young child. During their investigation, officers learned that the suspect had visited the victim on Aug. 13 and began to insult her. When she attempted to leave her house, the suspect pulled her back inside. As she sat on the coach with
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BY JOHN DICKSON
WELCOME BACK! We missed you. Continuing a 52 year Santa Barbara tradition the new Esau’s Café is set to reopen Wednesday within the new Paseo Chapala project located at 729 Chapala Street. Scott and Arti Stanley, purveyors of fine food in the south coast area for over 3 decades, will bring the best of their culinary talents to their loyal following of local customers. “We will be
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BY LORETTA REDD
The budget of the State of Caleeforneeya is in a pickle, according to Arnold and the ‘electeds.’ No one can seem to agree on what to cut, where to save, or how to raise new revenue. Yet while Sacramento drowns in the Red Sea of deficits, a significant source of new income is about to be sacrificed by voters in the November election. Not only is this potential tsunami of cash
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BY PEDRO NAVA
Last week, a Legislative Resolution I authored to oppose offshore oil drilling passed the California State Assembly. We must fight to keep the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling intact so as to not jeopardize our coastline, tourism and fishing industries. That’s why I am so concerned with an action scheduled before the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors today.
The
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BY ADAM LUNDQUIST
It’s more annoying than a New York fan, it’s faster than the quickest guy at Nite Moves, look up and away it’s – some guy loudly discussing, in great detail, Olympic events he knows nothing about.
His natural habitat is in bars and coffee shops in downtown Santa Barbara (and might I say thank you for talking so loudly that no matter what seat I am in, I can not escape your
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DAILY SOUND SPORTS REPORT
Injuries to a pair of UC Santa Barbara men’s soccer veterans will cost each the 2008 season and force the Gauchos to rely even more heavily on their talented freshman class.
Senior defender Kyle Kaveny fractured his left ankle in Saturday’s exhibition match against Westmont and junior midfielder C.J. Cintas broke his left foot during practice last week. Each is expected
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BY DAVE LOVETON
It’s hard to imagine having a better regular season than the SBCC women’s soccer team enjoyed last year. The Vaqueros went unbeaten in their first 17 games and lost just once before falling in the second round of the state playoffs.
Of course, John Sisterson has a pretty vivid imagination.
“We’re very excited about this season,” said Sisterson, who’s starting his fourth year as
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A 16-year-old boy took a taxicab to the hospital after being stabbed in Santa Barbara on Sunday night during what police are considering a gang-related incident.
Authorities arrived at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital at 10:32 p.m. after receiving a call from a taxi driver who was en route to the emergency room with a stabbing victim, Sgt. Lorenzo Duarte
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BY P.J. HELLER
SPECIAL TO THE DAILY SOUND
The city of Santa Barbara — credited with helping to launch the modern environmental movement — is blazing a new trail these days through tons of coffee grounds, vegetable peelings and food scraps.
It’s all part of an effort to divert organic waste from a shrinking landfill into a commercial composting operation.
Santa Barbara is one of only about 15
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
The 5,000-strong squid and octopus collection at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History grew by only one member but got a lot bigger last Friday when scientists added a 30-foot giant squid to the inventory.
The elusive creature, which resides at 3,000 feet below sea level and has at times turned up in the Santa Barbara Channel, is rarely studied.
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A proposal to convert a former elementary school in downtown Carpinteria into an early childhood resource center will get a second look from city leaders today in response to concerns about parking impacts.
Planning commissioners approved the project earlier this month, but the City Council appealed the decision in order to examine the proposal anew.
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BY STEVEN LIBOWITZ
DAILY SOUND ARTS EDITOR
Mel’s Lounge has been a Santa Barbara institution since 1963.
When two blocks of lower State Street were radically renovated to create Paseo Neuvo mall, the tiny little neighborhood bar stayed right where it was.
When the original owner’s son fell ill and could no longer run the bar, a new owner — who happened to be the bookkeeper — came in and kept
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August 16, 4 p.m. — Using surveillance video, authorities tracked down a man suspected of starting a fire in a dumpster behind JJ’s Liquor & Deli, 311 Castillo St. On July 30, firefighters responded to the liquor store to extinguish a blaze in the dumpster. Detectives determined an open flame device had been used to spark the flames.
The following day, authorities examined surveillance footage
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
They come from different backgrounds, different schools. Some are Dons, from Santa Barbara High School. Others attend San Marcos High, El Puente Community School or nearby universities. Many are likely tagged by community leaders as “at-risk.”
But none of that matters this week. Their history, their differences all fade into the background.
Their only
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A witness and a taxi driver teamed up to help police nab a pair of suspects who crashed into a parked car and fled the scene on Santa Barbara’s Westside last weekend, authorities said.
The incident began early Sunday morning, when police received reports of a traffic accident in the 1400 block of San Andres St. En route, officers learned that one of the
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BY BENJAMIN GOTTLIEB
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
Raising one million dollars in donations over the weekend, the Music Academy of the West concluded its recital hall renovation in dramatic fashion through sizable donations from two private donors.
The donations, which completed the school’s campaign goal of 15 million dollars, were announced following the academy’s season ending community concert
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
None of them know my last name, and I don’t know theirs. It doesn’t matter here. Neither does the time or date. In the desert of southeastern Utah, Canyon Country, the only thing that really is of concern is how much water is in my bottle and the distance between here and there.
On this particular August day, as the sun sets fire to fleets of towering
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BY STEVEN LIBOWITZ
DAILY SOUND ARTS EDITOR
“David Olney stands out in Nashville like a jalapeno in a bowl of vanilla pudding,” a Texas newspaper wrote last year, in reviewing the veteran troubadour’s latest album, “One Tough Town.”
Olney himself doesn’t object to the simile; there are times he wonders what such a renegade singer-songwriter is doing in the Mecca for bland country music. But he
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BY STEVEN LIBOWITZ
DAILY SOUND ARTS EDITOR
“Dancing with the Stars” has been one of the biggest hits on television since the reality show hit the airwave a couple of years ago.
While Santa Barbara’s version of the competition can’t boast sports heroes, Hollywood superstars, famous others or other world renown celebrities, we do have something you can’t get in a stuffy back lot studio: the
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BY CHERI RAE
Camping is usually a get-away-from-it-all natural experience of sleeping under the stars, getting close to nature and enjoying stories told around the campfire. It’s not the cheap vacation it once was: A campsite in any California State park runs at least $25 per night, still a terrific bargain compared to a site at a private campground.
But in Santa Barbara, in certain
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Think thrift store, only bigger. And instead of clothes, hats, neckties and wine glasses, one can choose from double-pane windows, doors adorned with stained glass, nails, toilets and sinks.
Home improvement items like these are the bread and butter of Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore, which sells new and used construction material that in another era may
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Goleta residents tired of paint cans piling up in the garage, old batteries littering drawers and outdated electronics taking up space can now dump their hazardous junk at a new MarBorg Industries facility unveiled yesterday.
“We call this the ABOP — antifreeze, batteries, oil and paint — but it’s much more,” said Mario Borgatello, the company’s owner
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
For more than 35 years, hundreds of local kids have been strapping on football pads and cleats to hit the field for the Santa Barbara Youth Football League.
This year, however, they’re having a little trouble finding a field to call home.
“We’re scrambling,” said Joe Salcedo, athletic director of the local YFL. “People don’t realize how high demand is
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A Santa Maria man who delivered a bomb threat to the American Lung Association’s Santa Barbara office on Tuesday turned out to be an inmate already in custody who called collect from County Jail, authorities said.
An employee at the nonprofit organization answered the phone at approximately 2:10 p.m., police said, and immediately heard a recording
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
The future of a new North County jail grew foggier yesterday after Sheriff Bill Brown told the Board of Supervisors the state would not support a county proposal to build a secure reentry facility next to the jail.
Without the reentry facility, the county could lose $56.2 million in grant funding that was conditionally awarded to the county through state
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Money, gangs, cell phones and home schooling were a few of the many issues discussed by Santa Barbara School Districts officials yesterday during a briefing with local media about the upcoming school year.
Though a number of complicated issues will come to head this year in the district, including two parcel tax measures, the fate of which will be
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A Santa Barbara man appeared in federal court in Los Angeles yesterday for allegedly seeking out a guide to help him locate children to have sex with in Thailand, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said yesterday.
The man, Michael Patrick Mahoney, 51, a sales representative of some sort, was arrested Saturday night at Los Angeles
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
While community leaders are expected to unveil a long-term strategy to reduce youth violence on the South Coast early next month, officials gave Santa Barbara leaders a sneak preview yesterday that was met with a mix of praise and advice.
Since a gang-related stabbing death on State Street last year, the city has made youth violence a top priority, City
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
In an attempt to strengthen the lines of communication between city boards and commissions, Santa Barbara leaders expressed support for a new set of review criteria they believe will help address concerns about the size, bulk and scale of recent building projects.
The legislation would further empower design review boards to make their position clear on
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BY LESLIE WESTBROOK
The Sixth Annual Spirit of Small Business Awards Luncheon, put on by Pacific Coast Business Times and the U.S. Small Business Administration, took place last Thursday at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort and you couldn’t have two more incongruent gatherings in the same building. A sign read: “Quiet Please, Meditation Taking Place” next to the hallway full of very chatty,
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BY LORETTA REDD
While it seems there are more outreach, activity and coalition organizations for youth these days than the number of young people attending them, the violence on our streets continues. What will it take to turn them from the dead-end, false bravado of gang activity, to believing in their capacity to gain status through ‘good’ rather than through intimidation?
Though no consensus
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BY RANDY ALCORN
For very sound reasons Americans have become disillusioned with the war in Iraq. Those reasons include the false premises for which the war was originally initiated and sustained; the terrible toll in human life and injury to both Americans and foreigners; the huge expenditure of tax dollars from an already grossly overdrawn national treasury; and the long, uncertain, duration of
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
With a scar zigzagging from his right eye to his upper lip, a suspected Eastside gang member who was stabbed several times last week limped onto the witness stand yesterday in the murder trial of a 15-year-old Santa Barbara boy.
The 18-year-old witness was scheduled to testify in court last Tuesday. But two days before taking the stand, Santa Barbara
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
As the 60s drew to a close with the Vietnam War in high gear and President Nixon in the White House, the seaside community of Isla Vista was still not seen as a major center of unrest.
Sure, the streets adjacent to UC Santa Barbara had increasingly become visible as a hotbed of the counterculture movement and drug culture, but activism remained
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Lewd acts and sharp objects keep police busy in today's police blotter.
August 14, 12:25 p.m. — Police received reports of a man masturbating in public and found their subject as described, seated on the ground in the 100 block of W. Arrellaga St. While holding a pornographic magazine in one hand, the man had unzipped his shorts and was fondling himself in plain sight with his other hand.
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BY JOHN DICKSON
THE RESTAURANT GUY
The official name is the “Boathouse” but with the huge amount of public interest in Santa Barbara's newest seaside restaurant, that opened last Sunday night, it is rapidly becoming “Port Hendry.” Tom & Adam White spent $1.6 million renovating the Hendry’s Beach building formerly known as the Brown Pelican and it has quickly become a local treasure. I attended a
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Police arrested a Goleta man after security officers at El Paseo restaurant spotted a handgun in his possession as he attempted to enter the establishment early Saturday morning.
Authorities received the call at 1:04 a.m. and arrived at the restaurant to find security detaining Javier Esparza, 43, police said. Officers approached the suspect, who tried
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Skycap service at the Santa Barbara Airport will be terminated on Sept. 1, a statement from airport officials said.
The statement cited financial concerns as the primary reason for terminating the service, which generally includes curbside check-in.
American Eagle stopped offering skycap service a couple of years ago and now, SkyWest Airlines has
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Police arrested a Santa Barbara man on suspicion of attempted murder during an investigation of a stabbing that occurred on San Andres Street on Sunday evening.
At 7:11 p.m., authorities received a call from a resident at 1827 San Andres St. and found a 21-year-old man with a stab wound to his stomach in the front yard of the house, Sgt. Lorenzo Duarte
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BY BENJAMIN GOTTLIEB
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
A group of local children will be communicating with the stars early this morning, as UC Santa Barbara will play host to a live conversation with the International Space Station (ISS).
Beginning at exactly 8:39 a.m. today, Boy Scout Troop 105 will be given a rare opportunity to communicate with NASA astronaut Gregory Chamitoff, the flight engineer
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
When the Santa Barbara Foresters semi-pro baseball team sported a lowly 13-12 record in mid-June, Head Coach Bill Pintard bet his wife that his squad would win the National Baseball Congress World Series.
The Pintard who wears baseball pinstripes won that bet with perfection yesterday after the Foresters shut the Seattle Studs out with a 2-0 victory in
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
During the city of Santa Barbara’s November 2009 election, voters will likely decide whether to chop the city’s current maximum building height from 60 feet to as low as 40 feet in some parts of the city.
A group called Save El Pueblo Viejo, named after the downtown district that stretches from the beach north to Mission Street, and from Laguna Street to
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
In an effort to prevent witness intimidation in the murder trial of a 15-year-old Santa Barbara boy, the prosecutor in the case yesterday called three juvenile witnesses to the stand several days earlier than planned.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Hilary Dozer said he felt the witnesses needed to testify before they could be swayed by intimidation.
“I
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COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Two more suspects were arrested Thursday for allegedly participating in a Sunday night gang stabbing on upper State Street that prevented a witness from testifying in the murder trial of Ricardo “Ricky” Juarez.
The 18-year-old victim, whose name has not been released by police and was blacked out in police reports, was scheduled to testify in the
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
AND COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITERS
A suspected Eastside gang member stabbed multiple times during a Sunday night gang assault on upper State Street had been scheduled to testify two days later in the high-profile murder trial of Ricardo “Ricky” Juarez, according to police reports.
The 18-year-old victim was expected to take the witness stand for the prosecution on
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BY GINA PERRY
To avoid an embarrassing, drawn out legal battle between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the State Controller, our Legislature simply needs to do its job: Present the Governor with a budget. It is already overdue.
Regardless of how the media presents the issue, the California Legislature is in complete control of the state-employee salary-cut debacle. The Governor’s request that
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BY CHERI RAE
It may be the most hotly disputed collection of 27 words in American civic life: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
The Second Amendment, strictly interpreted, is pretty clear; uncounted volumes have been written about what it means in today’s world. But no one can dispute
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Tom White has poured his heart, spirit and wallet into the Boathouse. Now he can only step back and hope it sails.
As the longtime local restaurateur steps through the airy interior of his latest project, a complete overhaul of the Arroyo Burro Beach eatery, he glances around and grins.
“I think we nailed it,” he says.
Its glass-lined deck, its
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A discussion on the feasibility of hiring six gang specialists to help stem escalating gang violence in Santa Barbara was discussed Tuesday night by the Santa Barbara School Districts Board of Education. And for now, it appears the majority of the board is in favor of such positions, just not six of them.
Many of the board members called for a pilot
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Santa Barbara Police detectives arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of stabbing another man Sunday evening in the courtyard of the Guest House Inn at 3344 State St.
Authorities took the suspect, Pablo Lopez, into custody at 9 a.m. at his place of work. Lopez was booked into Santa Barbara County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder, active
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Authorities arrested a 50-year-old woman on suspicion of attempted murder after she allegedly started a fire at her Orcutt apartment while her sister slept inside, Santa Barbara Sheriff’s officials said.
When firefighters arrived at the apartment in the 200 block of N. Pacific St., they found the suspect’s sister, who is disabled, in front of the
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A high-ranking police official and a local religious leader were among those placed behind bars yesterday.
Fortunately, once the jailbirds raised “bail” in the form of donations to the local chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, they were allowed to go free.
Hundreds of local business and community leaders took part in MDA’s annual Executive
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BY STEVEN LIBOWITZ
DAILY SOUND ARTS EDITOR
The Music Academy of the West has been calling the young musicians who are attending the institute this summer “Fellows,” rather than students, to reflect the fact that they are truly advanced young professionals who have reached at least the college level, and in many cases are already working in the field.
But there’s one violinist at the Academy this
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BY BENJAMIN GOTTLIEB
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
UCSB’s Arts & Lectures has returned for another riveting year of exuberance, as tickets for single performances are scheduled to go on sale this upcoming Saturday.
UCSB expects to showcase nearly 200 different events throughout the series, including scholarly lectures, movie screenings, music and dance performances and conversations with award
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
After weighing in on a proposal to examine what it would take to rehabilitate the city’s desalination plant, which converts seawater into drinking water, Santa Barbara city leaders approved a $122,000 study to look into the cost, timeline and regulatory issues surrounding such an action.
Although leaders disagreed about the merits of the study,
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
With a steady influx of foreign visitors swinging through Santa Barbara due to favorable monetary exchange rates, one local business is hoping to capitalize on the tourism bump by allowing customers to pay with euros.
Michael de Paola, the owner of Emilio’s Ristorante and Bar de Isabella, said the restaurant is squaring away a few final fiscal details,
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A slate of single-family homes, commercial buildings and institutional facilities earned recognition from Santa Barbara city leaders yesterday for installing solar energy systems.
Officials selected projects that exemplified the city’s solar design guidelines, which promote aesthetic considerations in addition to efficient energy use.
“These are the
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
KCLU, a community radio station based at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks and heard primarily in cars throughout the city of Santa Barbara and Montecito at 102.3 FM, will soon have a much larger presence in south Santa Barbara County.
Officials at the station announced yesterday the acquisition of KIST-AM 1340, a 650-watt frequency that is
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BY BENJAMIN GOTTLIEB
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
In response to the aftermath of the Gap Fire and subsequent outcry for increased communication within the community, the City of Goleta announced the implementation of a new mass notification system yesterday capable of contacting residents in the case of an emergency.
The alert system, dubbed the ‘Goleta City Alert’, will allow City officials to
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BY BENJAMIN GOTTLIEB
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
Four men were arrested for hunting at the UC Santa Barbara Sedgwick Reserve this past weekend, as the university continues to enforce strict hunting bans on its property.
Marking the first day of deer-hunting season, two men were arrested this past Saturday near a gate along Figueroa Mountain Road, according to UCSB Police Sergeant Daniel Massey.
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BY LESLIE WESTBROOK
I had the good fortune of attending last week’s Picnic Concert at the Music Academy of the West, thanks to my tenacious friend Bunny Bernhardt, who nabbed some last minute tickets returned by Jill and Barry Kittnick to the ticket booth an hour before the concert.
Still, there had to be somewhere between 20-30 empty seats in the dazzling new Hahn Hall, meaning that a number of
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
An 18-year-old Santa Barbara man was stabbed several times Sunday night in the courtyard garden outside the Guest House Inn at 3344 State St. Santa Barbara police said the stabbing was gang-related and the victim, whose identify was not released, was recovering in Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital yesterday.
Surveillance video captured by hotel cameras
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Local transit officials heard from the public on a proposed increase in bus fares yesterday evening during the first of two open meetings before a decision is made.
Faced with rising fuel costs and a struggling economy, leaders with the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) estimate that at least $1.5 million is needed to keep the agency on
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BY JOHN DICKSON
THE RESTAURANT GUY
Ever wonder how Rusty’s Pizza got its name? One might assume (as I did) that it was started by a person named “Rusty.” It turns out that my assumption was incorrect. There probably was a person named Rusty but he didn’t serve pizza; he served roast beef! In 1969, the founders of Rusty’s Pizza bought a restaurant named “Rusty’s Roast Beef” (see photo). It was
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Some stolen merchandise, DUI vandalism and a little lie keeps police on their toes in today's police blotter.
August 5, 8 a.m. — Using a electronic tracing system known as LoJack, police tracked down a laptop computer valued at $1,000 that had been stolen during a residential burglary. Officers found a 23-year-old woman in possession of the stolen computer in the 600 block of Pedregosa Street.
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Santa Barbara city leaders are expected to agree to split the proceeds, or costs, of providing residential recycling programs on the South Coast with the County of Santa Barbara.
The county currently transports all commingled recyclables collected in residential and small business bins in the South County to a private facility in Ventura where they are
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Workers are beginning to clear vegetation along Highway 101 in preparat
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