Santa Paula News

You could always tell when Jim Garfield was in the building: no matter how serious the discussion, within minutes there would be the sound of laughter prompted by one of Jim's surefire quips.

Santa Paula School District board members directed Superintendent Paul Chounet to "dig deeper" and "leave no stone unturned" to restore recently eliminated bilingual and migrant education positions after hearing from concerned community members at Tuesday night's board meeting.

The city of Santa Paula this week held the first of two public workshops to discuss water and sewage rates.

Search Dog Foundation, which trains and deploys canine-firefighter teams to disaster sites to look for people buried alive beneath wreckage, has received $150,000 from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation to help complete its National Training Center project in Santa Paula, Calif.

Caden Baird and Selah Baird play at Conejo Creek Park North in Thousand Oaks on Sunday, when temperatures reached into the 90s.

Juan Carlo/The Star Liam Collins applauds along with his classmates after Cardinal Daniel DiNardo blesses the degree documents for Thomas Aquinas College's largest graduating class ever.

A judge Friday gave a probation sentence to a former volunteer Santa Paula reserve officer involved in a drunken-driving crash that killed his police-officer girlfriend.

After two years of scant rainfall, strawberries may topple from their spot as the top crop in Ventura County as growers battle severely limited water supplies.

A temporary or permanent replacement hasn't been found for Santa Paula's ousted district librarian, the president of the library board said Wednesday.

Courtesy photo Eric Neumann and John Jensen hold up a 60-pound white seabass caught by Neumann while fishing Santa Cruz Island.

For the second time in seven months, the Santa Paula City Council voted to postpone for six months a sewage surcharge.

Located upon some 8 acres of undeveloped land midway between Ventura and Santa Paula, 925 Rancho Vista Lane is a sweeping 4,300-square-foot Mediterranean style home, ideally suited for large scale entertaining.

Santa Paula Unified School District board members moved forward Thursday with plans to convert the current elementary school district office into the unified school district office and also voted to move their meeting location.

JOSEPH A. GARCIA/THE STAR Andres Ordaz and his mother, Lourdes Garcia, join others during a May Day vigil at Plaza Park in Oxnard on Wednesday evening.

The six are Joseph Banuelo Bracamontes, 41; Justin Tyler Steele, 25; David Martinez Jr., 25; Aaron Alexander Morua, 26; Ryan Anthony Ramos, 23; and David Jesus Velazquez, 25.

On 4/29/2013, patrol deputies from the Santa Clara Valley Sheriff's Station responded to a report of a home invasion robbery on East Telegraph Road in the unincorporated community of Piru.

Santa Barbara Sheriff's investigators are trying to track down two suspects - a man and a woman believed to be from Ventura - who outran deputies Tuesday morning.

Meher Mount on Sulphur Mountain between Ojai and Santa Paula is a special place to visit.

Richard Quinn/Special to the Star Boy Scouts Spencer Kenney , Vinhanh Uyen, Randall Thomas, Sam Riggs and Long Diep race while carrying a canoe Saturday at the Camporee in Ojai.

Brian Day and Emily Law will speak at 2 p.m. today at the California Oil Museum, 1001 E. A Main A St.