The Carpinteria City Council voted 4-1 on Monday to go with five district-based election seats, rather than four, with Councilmember Roy Lee dissenting.
Evelyn Spence
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Longtime Howard School teacher, Jen Gonzalez, is tackling a new role at the Carpinteria Unified School District beginning this fall: reading and math intervention specialist for K–5 students.
Santa Barbara County is seeing an alarming increase in new case rates for Covid-19, with active cases up 90% over the previous two weeks. With the current uptick, it is expected that the daily case rates will continue to increase and cause a new wave of infections, according to Santa Barbara…
The Coalition Against Gun Violence, the city of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Police Department will host the sixth Anonymous Gun Buyback at Earl Warren Showgrounds on Saturday, Aug. 21, from 8 a.m. to noon. Donors will receive a $100 Smart & Final gift card for each handgun or rif…
A new fire restriction order has been implemented in Los Padres Forest prohibiting campfires anywhere across the forest. Camp stoves are allowed only within designated campfire use sites. The restriction will be in place until at least Dec. 31, 2021.
Former Pew Charitable Trusts U.S. oceans project director, Ted Morton, is Santa Barbara Channelkeeper’s new executive director, the organization announced this week. Morton joins Channelkeeper at a pivotal time as the organization intensifies its efforts to tackle large-scale environmental i…
Farm Cart Organics owners Katie and Jason Lesh have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $48,000 to open their new restaurant, The Good Plow, on Carpinteria Avenue. The restaurant owners are calling on the community to contribute to their Kickstarter – which has a range of rewards for do…
Kelsi’s Kitchen, a refrigerated chocolate company, now has products available for purchase at Pacific Health Foods. All products are sugar, gluten, dairy and soy free.
Ten years ago, cupcake shop Whodidily – then located on Coast Village Road in Montecito – closed, despite enjoying a thriving business for four years. Former CEO and owner Wendy Jones had been featured on Food Network and catered to an exclusive clientele.
Brenda Tan
CVN Contributor
At a special Saturday night event at the Alcazar Theatre, South on Linden performed live in a tribute event for Kevin Silk, who recently retired after two decades working for the city of Carpinteria. The concert was part of the Alcazar Rises Concert Series. The next live show in the series w…
The Association for Women in Communication Santa Barbara (AWC-SB) has launched Books for Breakfast, an informal summer discussion group of books geared towards helping participants become better communicators. The next no-host event is taking place from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Aug. 11 at Caje…
Carpinteria author Alec Burquez has released a new book of poetry, “What the Dark Whispers: A Poetry Collection for Midnight,” published by Dorrance Publishing and illustrated by Charlie Bruton.
If the avenue on the east end of town doesn’t prove it, this photo certainly does. The Bailard family has called Carpinteria home for a very long time. The name is partly cut off by the photo’s edge, but it appears the shop depicted above was a Bailard-owned general merchandise store at a ti…
Lorena Granados Martinez was born in Guanajuato, Mexico to Sol…
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Kudos to Vice Mayor Al Clark for voicing important issues and for voting his conscience at the last City Council meeting about the leasing agreement for the Surfliner Inn. If we could all agree on one thing, it is this: Carpinteria is a great city, and we love and appreciate living here. Per…
Carpinteria is the very last community of its kind in a geographic area that enjoys a climate almost unique in the entire world. The only way to know you’re entering any beach community south of Carpinteria is by looking closely at freeway signs to make sure you don’t miss its off ramp.
Thank you, Ms. Wittwer, for your recent column, “Honoring Women, do we count?” (CVN, Vol. 27, No. 43) – for pointing out a fact that should be obvious to all Americans which is taken for granted, and certainly never changed: there are no holidays honoring women, and there are no women featur…
The power of the far left in the Democratic party has moderate Democrats bewildered. In the last two years, more than half a million Democrats have left the party – check the “Walkaway” movement. The far left has adopted a destructive belief system of cultural Marxism, separating people into…
While we continue to soak up every single day of summer, it is also time to start preparing for the upcoming school year. Hopefully, this school year will be more predictable than the last. Schools will be returning to in-person instruction and some children and families have received the Co…
Part of the Carpinteria High School conceptual plan in Measure U – the $90 million general obligation bond passed to address long standing facility, technology and infrastructure needs throughout the district – includes a $4 million dollar upgrade to the school’s gymnasium.
Warrior’s cross-country athletes prep for fall season
For The Food Liaison’s fourth annual Christmas in July fundraiser, it teamed up with Carp Skate Foundation, which has spent the summer in a final push to make the new skatepark a reality.
CVN’s May 27, 2021 edition celebrated Sharon Kaklamanos’ 70th birthday with her and her sister, Pam Bell, in Nashville. The pair took a road trip to Tennessee to celebrate Kaklamanos’ birthday “Southern Style,” along with their family and friends.
CVN’s June 23, 2021 edition, featuring the opening of the skatepark, hopped along for the ride with the Kessler-Luthard family on their trip to Grover Hot Springs State Park near Markleeville. The family spent some quality time off the grid, and felt the recent earthquake “big time,” the fam…
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