Santa Barbara News

The Very Rev. Father Nicholas Speier of St. Athanasius Orthodox Church at the Sumida Garden Lane site of what will soon be the new home of his parish in Goleta.

Now here is a free Sunday afternoon event the whole family will love! American Dance & Music, formerly Ballet Santa Barbara, will present "Dance: Up Close and Cultural," a free performance for all ages at 2 p.m. this Sunday at the Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo St.

What: Orangevale continues its 50th rendition of Pow Wow Days. The event draws an estimated 12,000 people a year.

Indonesian photographer Hengki Koentjoro spends hours underwater armed with a digital SLR and a pair of flippers but his love of photography began on land with the spectacular American vistas captured by Ansel Adams .

Lynn Paul Reitnouer played college basketball in the 1950s. He was a lithe, towering freshman from Monrovia starting a new chapter of his life at San Diego State.

Share your business news, including employee announcements and personnel moves, by emailing news@noozhawk.com .] The nutritional product used by professional athletes at Santa Barbara's P3 facility will become available to the public next week.

Camerata Pacifica will present its May program locally at 1 and 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West , 1070 Fairway Road in Santa Barbara.

The director of Caltrans insists his staff would not approve of keeping the Montecito-area left-side on-ramps and off-ramps for Highway 101, but local leaders on Thursday asked the state agency to include a Montecito coalition's alternative design plan in the widening project's environmental documents.

Neighbors turn on alleged drug dealers in NoozWeek's Top 5, followed by a plunge and a dip, Granada Books, and a fire at Jill's Place OK, so the top story on Noozhawk this week was my column about the top story on Noozhawk last week .

A group of enterprising UC Santa Barbara students are attempting to bridge the gap between student life and campus life with the creation of a magazine called Campus Point .

From 9 a.m. to noon this Saturday, the Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez chapters of the Experimental Aircraft Association will host Young Eagles Day at the Santa Ynez Airport.

Herb K. Schultz, regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will keynote the Pacific Coast Business Times' 2013 Champions in Health Care Summit.

A Region 2 Arabian Horse Show which is to be held again this year at the Earl Warren Show Grounds in beautiful Santa Barbara, California from 19-23 June.

Washington Elementary students crowded along the chain-link fences of the school soccer field Thursday, waving signs and shimmying onto each other's backs for a better view of history in the making.

The Rotary Club of Montecito Foundation recently presented $1,000 scholarships to 10 SBCC students.

The Parrish Art Museum's Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating , an exhibition in two venues, in partnership with the Grey Art Gallery, New York University's fine-arts museum, is the first comprehensive exploration of this vital aspect of the renowned sculptor's creative process.

The face of Dr. Alan Shatzel, a neurologist, smiles in the monitor of a new medical robot, RP-VITA , as it rolls along in Mercy San Juan Medical Center's neuro-intensive care unit.

As thousands of San Luis Obispo County residents try to catch a glimpse of the Tour of California on Thursday, one young San Luis Obispo resident will receive a special up-close look at the action.

With just a week to go, the campaign for the 16th District state Senate race is growing predictably nasty.

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