1. Lompoc dancer is top talent
    Urzua’s Flamenco performance takes honors at Santa Maria competition

    Lompoc dancer is top talent

    A 17-year-old Lompoc Flamenco dancer took home top honors — and a $1,000 prize — in the first annual Santa Maria Has Talent competition.

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  2. Supervisor Gray speaks to Lompoc Rotary

    Supervisor Gray speaks to Lompoc Rotary

    County Supervisor Joni Gray was the featured speaker at the Lompoc Rotary meeting recently. She gave the club an update on the current budget struggle with the county and how the Board of Supervisors is approaching a solution. The revenues are down significantly forcing a reduction in exp…

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  3. Sunday night fire destroys mobile home

    Sunday night fire destroys mobile home

    A mobile home, seen Monday at left, in the 7500 block of Santos Road off Mail Road between Lompoc and Buellton was reported on fire at 7 p.m. Sunday.

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  4. Real thunder returning to Santa Maria air show in 2010
    Event secures waivers for aerial demonstrations

    Real thunder returning to Santa Maria air show in 2010

    The roar of American air power will be back for the 2010 Thunder Over the Valley air show at the Santa Maria Public Airport, airport sources said.

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  5. Splitting peas over billboards
    Advertising relics banned along county’s highways

    Splitting peas over billboards

    Notice something missing as you travel through Santa Barbara County?

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Lompoc dancer is top talent
A 17-year-old Lompoc Flamenco dancer took home top honors — and a $1,000 prize — in the first annual Santa Maria Has Talent competition.

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Beebe, Grandy named Athletes of the Week
Cabrillo High Athletic Director Bob Lawrence started by congratulating St. Joseph for its CIF girls basketball championship before introducing one of the softball team captains, junior Kelcie Jo Pecyna, at the weekly Northern Santa Barbara County Athletic Roundtable luncheon at Giavanni’s Pizza in Orcutt.

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Recession vs. logic of spending
A year ago, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved spending $2.2 million on four long-range planning projects. Coincidentally, when that vote was taken, the county was mired in the worst economy since the Great Depression.

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Supervisor Gray speaks to Lompoc Rotary
County Supervisor Joni Gray was the featured speaker at the Lompoc Rotary meeting recently. She gave the club an update on the current budget struggle with the county and how the Board of Supervisors is approaching a solution. The revenues are down significantly forcing a reduction in expenditures and/or use of the “rainy day funds.”

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History is alive and well
For 16 minutes on Feb. 28, the boundaries of time melted away. In the Valley of Flowers United Church of Christ in Vandenberg Village, a young black man, speaking with eloquence and passion, simply blew away 47 years. The people listening to him could have been in Washington, D. C., on that famous day, Aug. 28, 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.

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Lompoc Civic Theatre sets performances
The newly elected board members have brought wisdom and experience to the Lompoc Civic Theatre with two upcoming productions. The first is a dinner theater, a comedy called “Kitchen Witches,” by Caroline Smith that will  be performed at 7 p.m. beginning Saturday,
 
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