The Carpinteria 10U All Stars baseball team participated in the District 63 Tournament in Ojai recently, competing against Foothill, Dos Pueblos and Goleta Valley. The team made history by being the first Carpinteria Little League team to beat a Dos Pueblos Little League Team. Losing the fir…
Locals convened at the corner of Carpinteria and Linden avenues on June 30 to protest separating families at the border. Protestors waved American flags and homemade signs at passersby, exercising their rights to “patriotic free speech and peaceful assembly,” as one participant noted. “Tiny,…
The Rotary Club of Carpinteria Morning has been named the Best Over-All Club in District 5240, which includes the 72 Rotary clubs in Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern counties. The award recognizes the club’s membership growth, which was the highest in the District and local a…
As part of the Teens Love Cooking program, Foodbank of Santa Barbara volunteers led a pizza making workshop at the Carpinteria Boys & Girls Club. During the multi-week course, kids learned culinary skills, knife skills and different recipes.
At the Lions Club gala dinner on June 30, new club officers were installed for 2018-19. Over 100 people attended the “plated” dinner catered by Stanton’s Gourmet Catering. Past President Curtis Lopez was the MC and Past District Deputy Governor Fred Lemere swore in the new officers. The eve…
The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office issued a warning to community members after seeing a number of phone scam reports where the caller poses as a Southern California Edison employee. The scammer threatens to disconnect electricity service unless a payment is made immediately using a pre-paid …
Beach and landscape oil paintings in a palette of cool blues and warm yellows by Kris Buck will be on exhibit at Zookers until August 26. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Buck’s paintings capture tranquil outdoor settings along canals of Venice, lakes of Italy, golden pastures of France an…
The Carpinteria Arts Center and the Carpinteria Photography Club are organizing a road trip to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History to view the exhibition “50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic.”
The fourth annual “Old Town” Carpinteria Fiesta will be held on Saturday, July 21 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Friends of the Carpinteria Library Bookstore park at 5103 Carpinteria Ave.
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it,” wrote Harper Lee in “To Kill A Mockingbird.”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) is one of the agencies that tracks the impacts of climate change. This week they stated that June 2018 was the third-hottest June on record. In May, a Columbia University study found that the cloud cover in Southern California has been …
A reader sends a halo to the new post office worker Sherina, who always has a nice smile when the reader drops off mail.
I have enjoyed reading the articles about police presence in our little Carp community. We have been residents approximately four years and love Carpinteria. I first noticed police in the area on our first visit and even spoke to a park ranger who recommended The Spot for lunch. Good stuff.
I agree with Bob Franco’s letter (“Lunch with two deputies,” CVN, Vol. 24, No. 41). He refers to the 38 percent of the city’s budget that is spent on police—this is too much for a town of our size that can’t even fund the library. The problem is not the police, they are doing their job. The …
For over thirty years, Henry Gonzales played an integral role at Carpinteria High School. Last month, it was announced that Gonzales would be leaving his post as Assistant Athletic Director at the school, which he confirmed in an email last week.
Carpinteria High School will be conducting free physical exams for all 2018 Warrior football players grades nine through 12 on Tuesday, July 17, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on campus at 4810 Foothill Road. For the second consecutive year, Dr. William Gallivan has donated his time to ensure that the …
Traffic on Highway 101 can drive a person insane. But there are thanks to give for all the rounds of improvements that have brought the 101 to its current state. Imagine today’s commuters on the highway of 100 years ago, which we now know as Carpinteria Avenue and which is shown above near t…
Wally, Candi, Alec and Daniel Burquez, along with family friend, Sam Pantoja, recently spent a week in Barcelona, Spain. They visited Camp Nou, Barcelona’s soccer stadium, Park Guell, a 17th century military castle, and other museums and sites. The weather is exactly like Carpinteria’s and t…
Since visits to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park years ago, Mike and Diane Wondolowski have been watching the status of the ongoing Kilauea eruption and waiting. When new fissures opened up in May and started fountaining lava, they immediately made their travel plans and got to the Big Island …
The Carpinteria-based PlanMember Securities Corporation has been named for the third time to the Financial Times “Top 300” registered investment advisers list. The honor places PlanMember in an elite group. With over $5 billion in RIA assets under management (AUM), $11 billion in broker/deal…
The Carpinteria Valley Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Evolation Yoga on June 18 to celebrate the opening of the Carpinteria location. Aiden McNellis, center, son of co-owners Astrid and Kevin McNellis, helped hold the ribbon. The McNellis’ own and manage Evolation with Zefea S…
Carpinteria’s Chocolats du CaliBressan is this year’s winner of the Women’s Economic Ventures People’s Choice Award. The award honors entrepreneurs who, when faced with disaster, showed the resilience necessary to stay in business, or chose to give back and help others. Though Jean Michel an…
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