Guadalupe News

Summertime is almost here, and we know what that means - time to draw the shutters, crank up the AC, and brace ourselves for the onslaught of seasonal visitors rolling in from the hot valleys and big cities.

Sunday at Mad River Beach -- a long spit of sand jutting north, where the ocean roars on one side in a continuous pile-up of waves and the quiet river on the other side scallops the edge of the dunes -- seemed idyllic.

The Hunger Awareness Day held earlier this month raised $110,000 for the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County, organizers said this week.

For as long as there's been a Pacific Coast Business Times, we've been big fans of the Far Western Tavern and the Righetti family.

Pre-sale discount tickets are now available for the 118th annual Santa Barbara County Fair, which will run from July 15 through 19 at the Santa Maria Fairpark.

The American Legion in Guadalupe will hold a flag-retirement ceremony at 9 a.m. July 4, followed by a barbecue.

In seeking the 5th District seat on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, Steve Lavagnino says he plans to knock on every door in the district.

After five years as Guadalupe's city administrator, Carolyn Galloway-Cooper announced her resignation, effective Sept.

Completing of a journey that began 17 years ago when he was a 13-year-old immigrant from Mexico, Ruben Salvador of Guadalupe, recipient of Alyce Marita Whitted Memorial Award , will receive his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering at UCSB on Saturday.

A former city engineer and public works director for Pismo Beach has been selected as Guadalupe's contract city engineer.

California educators, already reeling from billions of dollars in spending cuts to public schools this year, are scrounging for even more ways to save money in the final weeks of the academic year as the state's finances continue to melt down.

The Santa Barbara County Parks Department is sponsoring a very special walk along the shoreline hike from the Guadalupe Dunes west of Santa Maria, down the shore to Point Sal area in recognition of National Trails Day Saturday.

Lieutenant L.A. Franco flings open the door of an East L.A. apartment, moves determinedly past a table piled with crack cocaine and ignores a hysterical addict in pursuit of her prey - a thug named Tunnel with an arrest warrant.

The man seeking to open a medical-marijuana dispensary in Guadalupe wants to know why he can't move forward with his venture, and why a meeting he had scheduled with the city's top cop last week was called off.

Paleontologists have found more solid evidence that volcanoes likely set off the Guadalupian mass extinction in the Middle Permian about 260 million years ago.

The so-called K-T extinction event that ended it for the non-avian dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus rex , is familiar to most paleo/geology hounds.

The so-called Guadalupian Mass Extinction, devastating marine life around the world, was preceded by massive eruptions in the Emeishan province of Southwest China, researchers led by Paul Wignall of Britain's University of Leeds report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

A 12-year-old Bakersfield boy was killed in a head-on collision Monday on Highway 166 near Twitchell Reservoir in which eight other people were injured, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Central Coast school districts experienced mixed results in statewide rankings, according to the 2008 Base Academic Index Report released Thursday by the California Department of Education.

Water quality watchdog Heal the Bay released its 19th annual beach report cards for the state of California this week and the news, for us here in sunny Santa Barbara, is mix of very good and very bad.