Carpinteria’s Boy Scout Troop 50 and Club Scouts Pack 50 are prepping for their annual Christmas Tree lot, located on the field behind St. Joseph’s Church. The lot will open the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Proceeds from the lot will fund the Carpinteria scouting program.
The Committee to Save the Downtown & Beach Parking Lot submitted its completed petition to the city clerk on Monday, with close to 1,100 signatures. Organizers and petition gatherers have worked over the past several months to designate City Parking Lot #3 and another vacant city-owned p…
On Saturday, Carpinterians swarmed the Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center to get a look at the Sea Glass Festival pop-up, searching closely for holiday gifts for family and friends. Amidst live music, the pop-up’s artists offered several signature pieces, including jewelry inspired by the …
The Carpinteria-Summerland Fire District opens up the holiday season with the “Santa Run” charity toy drive on Dec. 13.
The Highway 101 project announced additional closures over the next few weeks.
City Hall will be closed Thursday and Friday due to the Thanksgiving holiday, City Manager Dave Durflinger confirmed.
I’m put on hold for a brief moment as SOAP owner Daniel Case greets a customer by name. Case welcomes about 90% of his patrons this way – which makes sense, considering he has run the business for twenty-three years with a loyal following.
CenCal Health, a health plan for low-income residents in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, is offering $50 gift cards as an incentive to get vaccinated
Local company Kind Cup, which produces menstrual cups, released a new cup this month: the Violet cup, a new color for the products.
The Charles Lo Bue Gallery’s Gift It! exhibit opened last weekend and will run through Jan. 9. Juried by Ruth Ellen Hoag, the exhibit offers many pieces for Carpinterians to look for potential holiday presents.
Dancer and musician Idalia Robles De Leon, from the group Kalpulli Mayahuel, drew an audience at the Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center with her performance of native drum music, a release from the arts center read.
Honoring its many volunteers, the Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center handed out snacks, punch and dessert during a volunteer appreciation celebration earlier this month.
Notes on this photo identify it as the home of Robert Couch on Linden Avenue. Take a close look. See the distinctive rock faces on the mountains? Now note what’s absent—just about everything manmade that exists in the same landscape today.
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A reader sends a halo to the individuals that plant additional trees appropriate for their region, making the world carbon neutral. “We are two-thirds of the way there. We can do the other one-third now, and phase in renewable energy sources logically.”
Parts of California are in a drought emergency – an argument among many against the housing project proposed for county property on Bailard Avenue.
Since the microphone was off when I spoke at the Nov. 22 Carpinteria City Council meeting, I would like to inform Carpinterians that members of the Committee to Save the Downtown & Beach Parking Lot submitted 28 petition packets with over 1,000 signatures. That is several hundred signatu…
When thinking about self-care, what comes to mind is a spa-like setting where you are getting a pedicure, while sipping on a fruity cocktail drink and surrounded by the sounds of nature. Sure, that sounds lovely – but it’s not the reality for the majority of us. Self-care for me sometimes is…
The Cate Rams are officially the biggest thing in little football.
Carpinteria’s boys water polo team finished a season for the record books, making it to the finals of the 2021 CIF SoCal Boys Water Polo Division 3 Championships – a bonus after already clinching their first-ever CIF Southern Section title – finishing second in the region after a tough loss …
Top-ranked Warriors water polo prepares for CIF run
A copy of CVN took a trip to Vienna with Robin Brandin, left, and Melinda Bendel, right, in October. Brandin and Bendel had the opportunity to see the city’s sights which they called “beautiful” and a “dream.” Brandin is pictured in front of the home where she lived in high school, when her …
Eleven-year-old Isabella Stovall, Carpinteria’s famed tween who raised more than $23,000 for the Carpinteria Skatepark, got the chance to get out of California for a bit and visit her cousin in Maui, Hawaii. She had a great time in the ocean and the pool, taking a copy of CVN with her on her…
Carpinteria Magazine • Summer 2021
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