Summerland News

My 7-year-old neighbor looked less than thrilled as her mom drove her off for her second H1N1 flu shot yesterday.

Local authorities averted potential tragedy by stopping traffic and arresting a 37-year-old woman suspected of speeding along Highway 101 in the wrong direction while intoxicated late Tuesday evening.

There is a great difference between political courage and political arrogance Arrogance is the attitude of "we are smarter and know better than the electorate". Council had several missed opportunities to show true courage.

With all the books and movies centered on the doomsday prophecy of 2012 , it's hard to believe that there is an angle left uncovered.

In 1963, a rift caused Mel Price to end his partnership in a bar named Pala s, located on the corner of De La Guerra and State Streets, where Banana Republic sits today.

Linnea Good, left, and Tracy Fehr swap CDs. The two Summerland musicians were both chosen as finalists in the B.C. Interior Music Awards' Gospel/Christian Album of the Year category.

The riotous comedy, I Hate Hamlet, opens tonight Thursday, Nov. 5 on the Cannery Stage in the Cannery Trade Centre in Penticton and continues until Nov.

Summerlanders are showing local Olympic spirit and healthy living initiatives for a chance to win a $100,000 prize for the community.

So, the Board of Supervisors has decided to raise the speed limit on Via Real between Greenwell Avenue in Summerland and Toro Canyon Road.

If you like pairing chocolate and wine, youa TMll want to attend the S.B. Rape Crisis Centera TMs third annual Chocolate de Vine fundraiser.

If Santa Barbara has become a hotbed for medical marijuana dispensaries, then the Valley may be becoming fertile ground.

It might just be the Francophile in me, but when Renaud Gonthier, the master baker behind Renaud's, says croissant with his French accent, the "croi" sticks in your craw and the "ssant" is soft and sibilant and lingering.

Centre Stage Theatre was packed on Thursday evening as dozens of Summerlanders spoke out about a proposed change to the Official Community Plan.

Santa Barbara detectives arrested a man on Thursday after he walked into the police department carrying four concealed knives.

Dunjia Newcombe, right, holds up some of Sharon Christophersona s hair during a fundraising hair cut at the Summerland Legion on Saturday evening.

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A new organization has been formed to help Summerlanders attempting to lose a little extra weight.

Santa Barbara's sweet-life faA ade too often masks that poverty still exists amid the halcyon vistas and evidence of conspicuous consumption.

Over a five-year period, when he was in his 80s, celebrated Southern outsider artist Bill Traylor produced a flurry of work that beguiles with its simplicity of materials -- pencil and poster paint on discarded shirt cardboard -- and forms.

"Celebrate Summerland" is the theme for the town's first communitywide celebration, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and sponsored by the Summerland Business Association, MarBorg Industries and Montecito Bank & Trust .