Shoppers walk through the rain at Vons on North H Street in Lompoc Monday morning.//Len Wood/Staff 12/7/09 photo
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A problem with a steering system led to at least a 24- hour delay for Friday's Delta 2 rocket launch attempt with a NASA satellite on board, officials said today.
waiting in Santa Barbara this weekend: a nighttime boat parade, holiday “revels,” dueling “Nutcrackers” and much more!
Santa and Mrs. Claus will visit the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum at today’s annual holiday party. //Contributed
A scene from the holiday comedy “Fruitcakes.” //Contributed
Lompoc Civic Theatre will present “Fruitcakes,” its holiday show, at 7:30 p.m. tonight and at 2 p.m. Sunday, at the Lompoc Civic Theatre, 217 South L St.
Exiting the Main Gate to Vandenberg AFB, I again saw protestors with banners, waving slogans that told passing motorists, local news and our military men and women that “weapons don’t bring peace.”
I loved all the holiday events happening in town this past weekend — the parade, Master Chorale concert, Lompoc Pops concert, and the Creche Community Concert at the LDS church.
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The 26-year-old man convicted of murdering former Lompoc police Officer Richard May sobbed openly in court Thursday as his mother testified about his troubled early childhood.
The ashes of Santa Barbara County Fire Heavy Equipment Operator Dean Moore are brought down from a tractor during the procession at his funeral Thursday in Solvang. Moore died Nov. 29 after a two-year battle with lung cancer. //Ian Gonzaga/Staff
The gray rain clouds mirrored the somber emotions Thursday as the final alarm was rung for Dean Moore, a heavy-equipment operator with Santa Barbara County Fire Department, who died Nov. 29 after a two-year battle with lung cancer.
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Keep that umbrella handy because more rain is on the way for the Central Coast.
A faulty steering system on a Delta 2 rocket engine prompted a three-day delay for a mission to launch a NASA satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials said Thursday.
Two men whose brush-clearing efforts along a local trail allegedly sparked the devastating Jesusita Fire in May have been charged with misdemeanor violations of county codes, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.
Red Kettle Campaign Chairman Cozetta Blow greets customers as she rings a bell at the Vons in Lompoc. At left, Maurita Jaurequi of the Salvation Army rings a bell for donations in Santa Maria. //Ian Gonzaga/Staff
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They’re not jingle bells or silver bells, but the ding-a-ling chime from Salvation Army bell ringers heralds the coming of Christmas just as effectively.
Nipomo’s Cami Castillo try’s to take the ball from Cabrillo’s Taylor Wagonseller during the Moriarty Enterprises Holiday Classic Thursday. //Photo by Phil Klein
In the closing minutes of the Cabrillo/Nipomo girls basketball game, Cabrillo head coach Mark Tasch was yelling, “Anybody but her! Anybody but her!” from his side of the gymnasium.
Lompoc’s Erica Elenes tries to shoot over Righetti’s Linsey Avila during non-league girls water polo action at Righetti High. Elenes scored two goals and even played goalie in the first quarter, saving six shots. //Bryan Walton/Staff
With two new head coaches, the Lompoc and Righetti girls water polo teams are still trying to get used to changes in the learning curve.
The annual Nativity Pageant scheduled for tonight at Solvang's outdoor Festival Theater has been canceled because of rain, and this evening's Santa Ynez Valley Jazz Band concert has been moved from tonight to 4 p.m. Wednesday in Solvang Park.
Rains may come and rains may go, but when the next rains come, the only thing going will be the new bike/walking path along the Santa Ynez River.
Concerning the jogger hit by a car on West Ocean and Bailey, I travel West Ocean almost daily, and have had many close calls with joggers and others walking or riding bikes on this road.
Conflicting claims from both sides of the health care debate can produce side effects of confusion and irritability. On the one hand, we are told that the pending health care bill will be “deficit neutral.” On the other, we hear that over time it would add billions of dollars to America’s …
Weekends are for kicking back and relaxing, but for millions of Americans — including many of our neighbors here on the Central Coast — this is a good day to scour the Record’s classified pages and the Internet, searching for a job.
A proposed expansion of the McDonald’s at 835 North H Street was approved by the Lompoc Planning Commission this week, but the $105,000 in fees the city is asking for final approval may slow, or even kill, the fast-food restaurant giant’s project.
The Buellton City Council selected Victoria Pointer as mayor for next year and Ed Andrisek as mayor pro tem. //Raiza Canelon/Staff
The Buellton City Council has selected Victoria Pointer as mayor for next year and Ed Andrisek as mayor pro tem.
With the number of deaths attributed to the H1N1 virus in Santa Barbara County climbing to six this week, the Public Health Department has scheduled two vaccination clinics open to all residents.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Jerry Lulejian speaks about the Jesusita Fire charges at a press conference Friday morning in Santa Barbara. At right is Acting District Attorney Joshua Lynn. //Lara Cooper/Contributor
Officials remained tight-lipped Friday about what led them to file misdemeanor charges against two men whose brush-clearing efforts are suspected of causing the devastating Jesusita Fire earlier this year.
The Son’s of the American Legion Vandenberg Squadron #125 will sponsor a raffle to help raise funds for a new program called, “Toys for Teens.”
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. announced Friday that it has inked an agreement with the U.S. Air Force to study the feasibility of a wave-energy project off the coast of Vandenberg Air Force Base.
National Weather Service forecasters have no doubt that there will be rain tonight on the Central Coast, but the showers shouldn’t last past the weekend.
There’s always a risk of wildfires, but local agencies have announced that danger is significantly less with winter settling in.
Lighted decorations, including a trumpeting angel, made the house at 511 W. Locust Ave. Lompoc’s Sweepstakes winner in the city’s annual Holiday Decoration Contest. //Len Wood/Staff
Arroyo Grande's Rachel Ventura try's for basket over Cabrillo's Alyssa Sharp and Taylor Wagonseller during the girls basketball game of the Moriarty Enterprises Holiday Classic at Morro Bay High School on Friday.//Phil Klein
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Arroyo Grande's Rachel Ventura try's for basket over Cabrillo's Alyssa Sharp and Taylor Wagonseller during the girls basketball game of the Moriarty Enterprises Holiday Classic at Morro Bay High School on Friday.//Phil Klein
On day three of the Moriarty Enterprises Holiday Classic at Morro Bay High, the basketball tournament’s elite have revealed themselves.
Cabrillo High School’s Miguel Gomez (10) battles for the ball against Nordhoff High School during Friday’s boys soccer match in the Central Coast Classic at Cabrillo High School. Gomez scored Cabrillo’s only goal in the 1-1 tie. //Bryan Walton/Staff
School administrators were running around under big umbrellas — some in an open and very wet golf cart — trying to ge]t a campus full of students safely from buses, vans and cars bringing soccer players.
The Hmong community of Lompoc celebrated the coming New Year on Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Clarence Ruth Elementary School with festivities beginning in the morning with songs and speeches, followed by a free lunch prepared by the Hmong women.
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Saturday’s showers caused storm-related troubles across Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
Scouts and parents wave to the crowd Saturday from the Pac 93 float during the Christmas Parade in Orcutt.//Ian Gonzaga/Staff
Mother Nature was able to hold the rain to a drizzle just long enough for the 48th annual Orcutt Christmas Parade to go marching by Saturday afternoon.
Gloria Willis, left, and event Chairwoman Gloria Montague stand with a poster of Martin Luther King Jr. inside the Lompoc Valley Youth Center building last year. The 25th annual Carousel of Cultures will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18 at the LHS gymnasium. //Staff file
Club Arcturus, which puts on the annual Carousel of Cultures as a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is fundraising for the 25th annual event in January.
It looks as though the holidays will come and go this year without a furlough for Santa Barbara County employees.
Rev. Robert Kee, the pastor at Riverview Church of God, has helped force the issue of what type of language, and content Lompoc City Council will accept during their traditional meeting invocation prayers. //Len Wood/Staff
A three-letter word has revealed what one local pastor says is a contradiction in the meeting policies of the Lompoc City Council — that word being “God.”
When the Lady Conquistadores’ leading scorer Tati Dunlap fouled out with just under seven minutes remaining against the SLO Tigers, no one in Tiger Gym knew who on the team would step-up.
Lompoc and Cabrillo soccer players shake hands after their game at the Central Coast Classic Soccer Tournament finale at Huyck Stadium. //Ian Gonzaga/Staff
It may not mean as much as a regular season game played at Huyck Stadium, but when the Cabrillo and Lompoc boys soccer teams get together, the game is always big.
A Delta 2 rocket carrying NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore satellite lifts off at 6:09 a.m. from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Len Wood/Staff
After waiting out a series of storms last week and overcoming a technical snafu, a Delta 2 rocket blasted off early today from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
San Luis Obispo County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who robbed a Nipomo bank this afternoon.