Vandenberg Village News

The Highway Fire burning on Vandenberg Air Force Base flared up Thursday afternoon, delaying efforts to corral the blaze, and leading to another closure of the main route linking the Lompoc and Santa Maria valleys.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A 300-acre wildfire prompted evacuations Wednesday at Vandenberg Air Force and was moving through dry brush in the direction of homes, authorities said.

With old equipment and models of missiles as table centerpieces, Vandenberg Air Force Base marked 50 years of ICBMs on alert with a luncheon Thursday.

George Main is now an 87-year-old resident of Vandenberg Village, but in 1944, he was a 21-year-old pilot, also known as the aircraft commander, of a B-17 bomber during World War II.

Federal stimulus dollars have begun trickling into Santa Barbara County through infrastructure improvements aimed to heal the economy.

The dog days of summer are officially here for Lompoc, with the grand opening Saturday of the Barkin' Dog Park at Barton Park.

The dog days of summer are officially here for Lompoc, with the grand opening Saturday of the Barkin' Dog Park at Barton Park.

Santa Barbara County began $2.6 million in infrastructure upgrades last week with funding from federal economic stimulus money.

Fire crews put out a garage fire in Vandenberg Village. The Santa Barbara County Fire Department says they received a report of a structure fire at 21 Galaxy Way just before 1:00 p.m. Monday.

Eric Paul Brown, an information-technology specialist at the Federal Correctional Center in Lompoc, was appointed to the Board of Education during a three-hour special meeting Saturday.

Anticipating the release of the economic stimulus package and wanting to utilize federal monies for county transportation improvements, Santa Barbara County officials aggressively prepared several transportation improvement projects to qualify and capture stimulus funding.

By next week, Santa Barbara County will begin to see physical evidence of the federal stimulus program approved back in February.

With the economy floundering , residents of Mission Hills can feel good knowing they are paying the lowest water rates in Santa Barbara County.

If there was concern about the impact of a faltering economy on the 57th annual Lompoc Flower Festival, it was washed away in a river of root beer and funnel cakes - not to mention a mountain of jambalaya, tri-tip sandwiches, pansit and lumpia, tacos and tamales.

Months of fundraisers, ticket sales and special appearances culminated Saturday night with the naming of Tianna Tempra Cisowski as the 2009 Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Queen.

Two America in Bloom judges finished their two-day, whirlwind tour of the Lompoc Valley Tuesday afternoon walking in a soft breeze among the downtown murals of Art Alley on their way to the Lompoc Museum and the Cypress Gallery.