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  • Santa Barbara Unified State Take a look at Scores Enhance however Nonetheless Decrease than Pre-Pandemic Numbers

    State take a look at scores within the Santa Barbara Unified Faculty District had been a supply of rigidity even earlier than the pandemic threw a wrench into lesson plans. Though they’re nonetheless total decrease than pre-pandemic numbers, preliminary 2022-23 literacy and math proficiency scores present enchancment from the 2021-22 faculty 12 months, prompting a…

  • Evaluate | ‘Dinner with the President: Meals, Politics, and a Historical past of Breaking Bread on the White Home’ by Alex Prud’homme

    Credit score: Courtesy Freedom Fries — the bogus re-naming bestowed by right-wingers requiring simple-minded revenge throughout the Iraq Conflict when France was a hesitant ally to the U.S. — weren’t the primary event meals nomenclature grew to become a patriotic battlefield. Throughout World Conflict I, Herbert Hoover, then the pinnacle of Woodrow Wilson’s Meals Administration…

  • Winery Supervisor John Belfy Dies

    John Belfy of Buona Terra Farming Firm | Photograph: MacDuff Everton Winery supervisor John Belfy, who based Buona Terra Farming in 1997 and planted a lot of Santa Barbara County’s prime vineyards, died on September 12. He was 72 years previous. “We all the time had a terrific relationship and I actually considered him as…

  • Santa Barbara–Primarily based ShelterBox Begins Aid Efforts in Morocco and Libya

    The primary two weeks of September ushered in pure disasters in North Africa, with demise tolls within the 1000’s and complete neighborhoods both swept away by floods in Libya or decreased to rubble by earthquakes in Morocco.  Santa Barbara–based mostly worldwide catastrophe response group ShelterBox is to start with phases of aid efforts in each…

  • Van Morrison Doesn’t Knock Socks Off, however Unlaces Sneakers 

    Like Ray Charles and an exceedingly small handful of others, Van Morrison may sing phrases straight from a cellphone guide and nonetheless pack an irresistible emotional — to not point out musical — immediacy. However final Saturday evening, Van — quick for Ivan — Morrison, spared us any readings from the Full Works of Ma…

  • State Awards Fund for Santa Barbara $700,000 to ‘Cease the Hate’

    This summer season, California introduced the allocation of $3,645,000 to Central Coast anti-hate organizations offering direct, preventative, or intervention companies to “Cease the Hate.” For the years 2022-23 and 2023-24, the California Division of Social Companies (CDSS) Cease the Hate Program awarded a complete of $91.4 million in grants to 173 California organizations, geared towards…

  • A whole bunch Take to the Streets in Santa Barbara After Viral Video Sparks Outrage

    The nook of Backyard and Micheltorena streets was packed Sunday night time as demonstrators shut down the intersection for a number of hours in a gathering that was organized in response to viral movies displaying what seems to be a Santa Barbara lady harassing a building employee and spewing racially derogatory language. Within the two…

  • 1000’s of Californians Are Dropping Medi-Cal Each Month

    The Santa Barbara Impartial republishes tales from CalMatters.org on state and native points impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. Tens of 1000’s of Californians are dropping medical insurance each month because the state resumes checking folks’s eligibility for Medi-Cal, which it suspended through the COVID-19 public well being emergency.  About 16 million folks in California will likely be evaluated…

  • Opera Goes Grander, ‘Carmen’ and Past

    Opera Santa Barbara Inventive & Common Director Kostis Protopapas | Credit score: Zach Mendez Following the accepted knowledge that grand opera is a spot for prime drama, irrational twists, and harmful liaisons, Opera Santa Barbara’s (OSB) previous few years have been on, nicely, an operatic trajectory. Adapting resourcefully to the challenges of the COVID lockdown and…

  • Don’t Miss the thirty ninth Annual Santa Barbara Vintners Competition 

    Billed because the oldest wine competition in California, the Santa Barbara Vintners Competition celebrates its thirty ninth affair this October 14. Because it’s being held at a brand-new location in an period when the recognition and important appreciation for the area’s wine are at an all-time excessive, there’s loads of purpose to consider that this…

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