Santa Paula News

CARMEN SMYTH/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Santa Paula eatery Chickyweedy's honors Ralph Gomez , nicknamed "Chickyweedy"; his son and daughter are the cafe's owners.

Marry , Lucy and Ives Vanoni talk about how life was growing up on the farm while walking around the 2.5 acres their farm currently sits on located in Saticoy Tuesday afternoon.

16 at Lido di Manhattan Ristorante & Bar during its weekly Lido Wine Club Thursday.

Juan Carlo/The Star Randy Axell, volunteer helps Jennifer Orcutt Heighton, executive director of the Santa Paula Art Museum hang pieces by Douglas Shively that art collectors have brought in for the show.

Seven years after Hazel Imbrecht created a foundation to honor the memory of her son and four years after her death, it now appears something will finally come of her once-grandiose dream of paying tribute to the late Ventura Assemblyman Charles Imbrecht.

A new exhibit at the Ventura County Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula is featuring historic photographs, maps and tools of some of the county's earliest immigrant farmers.

Jim Scanlon and county Supervisor Kathy Long were installed as chair and vice chair of the Economic Development Collaborative-Ventura County's board of directors at the organization's 15th annual meeting Jan.

"It's absolutely unacceptable. It's just an economic shell game because it, for religious employers, requires indirect funding of contraception and abortifacients.

A Catholic college in Santa Paula could not offer health insurance that covers contraceptives for its employees despite a White House mandate igniting a firestorm of controversy, the school's president saidA Thursday.

Crossings - Movement expected about the same. Trading early slow, late fairly active.

Santa Paula saw considerable economic growth last year, but potential state funding cuts could spell trouble for the small city, Mayor Bob Gonzales told residents gathered at the annual Chamber of Commerce Awards luncheon Tuesday.

Athletes to watch: The two archrivals matchup with the Tri-Valley League championship on the line.

The council is scheduled to discuss the matter when it meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday at City Hall, 970 Ventura St.

A new exhibit, "Putting Down Roots: Ventura County's Immigrant Farmers, 1800-1910," will open Saturday at the Museum of Ventura County's Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula.

One bite of crusty bread spread with Sqirl raspberry and fresh lavender jam made by Jessica Koslow creates an explosion of local flavor.

The Chamber of Commerce for the City of Santa Paula, CA recently named CP Aviation, Inc.

Aguiniga also had a major promoter behind him in Top Rank, which had guided his career since he made his professional debut in August 2000.

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Sidney White, 60, of Ventura as chairman of the new panel.

Douglas Shively's oil painting "San Cayetano" is on display in a retrospective of his work at the Santa Paula Art Museum.

Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai held its first Poetry Out Loud competition on Wednesday, January 25 under the guidance of teacher Mrs.