Solvang News

Rodrigo Gimenez is not your average Santa Barbara chef. Technically speaking, he's not a chef at all, but a seasoned architect from Mendoza, Argentina, with a master's degree in historic-building restoration and a lifelong obsession with the culinary world, a man who slowly discovered that he preferred working in kitchens to designing them.

The Santa Barbara County Public Works Department supports alternatives to throwing food scraps and yard waste into the landfill - one of the largest generators of methane gas.

Today, the Santa Barbara County Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee approved more than $736,750 in grants from the Special Distribution Fund to public agencies and the cities of Solvang and Buellton.

More than 100 guests attended the Santa Ynez Valley Hotel Association's free "One More Night" Tourism Expo on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at the Solvang Festival Theater and witnessed a surprise ceremony honoring long-time Solvang resident Dr.

The Santa Barbara County Public Works Department supports alternatives to throwing food scraps and yard waste into the landfill - one of the largest generators of methane gas.

PANINO has locations in Los Olivos, Solvang, Downtown Santa Barbara, Montecito, Goleta and we're now open in the town of Santa Ynez! Menus , maps & location information is available at the Panino Website .

Visitors Bureau, Santa Ynez Valley Visitors Association, Santa Ynez Valley Hotel Association and Los Olivos Business Organization at an informal "viewing party" to see 128 of the top professional cyclists in the world race through the area.

The Santa Barbara County Vintners' Festival moved back to it original location at the Mission Santa Ines in Solvang.

The Wildling Museum, where art and nature meet, has just completed the structural work required by building code--with the financial assistance of their landlord--and is now ready to launch tenant improvements necessary to create the new museum space.

A search for a missing Solvang pilot whose single-engine airplane apparently crashed near Yosemite National Park's Half Dome will be resumed in June, park officials said.

PANINO has locations in Los Olivos, Solvang, Downtown Santa Barbara, Montecito, Goleta and we're now open in the town of Santa Ynez! Menus , maps & location information is available at the Panino Website .

The Solvang Library volunteers will be holding a book sale on Saturday, May 18th from 11:00am - 3:00pm at the Library.

Emergency personnel responded Wednesday afternoon to a head-on collision on Highway 246 east of Buellton, according to the California Highway Patrol.