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Readers thinking that lichen doesn’t sound like the most scintillating topic for a book have a valid concern. After all, ...
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Drinking Water from Three Santa Barbara County Wat...
Three water systems in Santa Barbara County failed the state’s annual assessment of drinking water systems, with another ...
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Lake Fire Grows to More than 26,000 Acres, 12 Perc...
[Update: July 9, 2024, 9:10 a.m.] The Lake Fire has grown to 26,176 acres and is 12 percent contained as of Tuesday morn ...
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Santa Barbara’s Parma Park Project Completed...
At Parma Park on Monday afternoon, a baby rattlesnake greeted Santa Barbara parks planner Monique O’Conner as she waited ...
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Sacred Garden Wellness Takes Root...
When Laura Caulfield-Lewis traveled to Lake Atitlán in 2000 she never could have envisioned the enduring impact that the ...
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Controversial Measure Overturning Oil Well Restric...
The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Sa ...
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FFUC Means Fossil Free University of California...
This article was originally published in UCSB’s ‘The Current‘. With UC Santa Barbara students at the forefront, a year ...
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Pepe, Tiger and Maisie...
Pepe Pepe is a 12-year-old black and white domestic longhair kitty with a lot of love to give! Despite his age and dia ...
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Small and Profitable: Home Kitchen Businesses Get ...
“When I was furloughed during COVID, this seemed like a good option,” said Marcos Buenrostro. “I love to cook, and selli ...
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Supreme Court Gives Cities in California and Beyon...
The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Sa ...
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Santa Barbara’s ‘Ukrainian Corner’ Keeps the Blue-...
At the onset of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, your average Joe may have hung a Ukrainian flag outside their home or ...
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Evacuation Warnings in Effect as Lake Fire Burns T...
The Lake Fire — a wildfire that started Friday afternoon north of Los Olivos near Zaca Lake in Los Padres National Fores ...
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New Record Shop Pumps Up the Volume in Solvang...
Off the Record Vinyl & Vintage | Photo: Courtesy A new hidden gem opened in Solvang this May, introducing the analog wo ...
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Catching the Latest French Wave...
For those of us who have developed a special and habitual craving for the annual Santa Barbara International Film Festiv ...
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Fish Ladders for Steelhead at Cachuma Lake?...
The on-again, off-again fish passage study for Cachuma’s Bradbury Dam and steelhead trout is currently “on” again in the ...
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Becoming Willie Wonkas...
“Everyone take a small nibble,” we are told as our pairing of chocolate truffles and wine begins. “Don’t eat the whole t ...
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SOhO’s 30th and No Simple Highway’s 10th Anniversa...
One of Santa Barbara’s largest hubs for music and entertainment, SOhO Restaurant and Music Club, will begin its 30th ann ...
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SOhO to Host James Mastro and Alejandro Escovedo J...
From sharing the spotlight with Patti Smith, Ian Hunter, and Garland Jeffreys to directing one of Robert Plant’s benefit ...
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A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of...
Abstract: Diverse explanations or theories of consciousness are arrayed on a roughly physicalist-to-nonphysicalist l ...
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Revival – really? Are we moving beyond the secular...
Introduction: Whisper it if you will, but an increasing number of observers are wondering if we are creeping towards ...
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Measurement Rules Takes Over as MOXI’s Newest Inst...
Have you ever wanted to know how much you weigh in chickens? Or what about how tall you are in water bottles? At the MOX ...
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