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This year’s Carpinterian of the Year, Curtis Lopez, has been civically involved for just about his whole life, and indeed the entire lifespan of the City of Carpinteria. In 1965, Lopez—then a young scout in Boy Scout Troop 51—played the bugle at the flag raising ceremony for the first City H…
The downtown district buzzed with excitement on Friday evening, Sept. 7, as 300 people hit the pavement to hop from local eatery to local eatery for the Carpinteria Valley Chamber of Commerce’s second annual Culinary Crawl. Participants made their way from Casitas Pass to Linden Avenue as th…
“How do you define ‘safe’? How do you define ‘home’?” asks one Montecito property owner who lost everything.
Back to the travails of my neighbor, Ed Van Wingerden, owner of Carpinteria’s largest gerbera grower, Ever-Bloom nursery. How big is his business? Ever-Bloom ships nearly 30,000 flowers to float-builders for the Rose Bowl parade alone, which is a mere fraction of the 12-million stems the com…
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