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| 8:30 a.m. Well, I had hoped that the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers would have re-signed free-agent third baseman Justin Turner by now. Maybe today. In other personnel moves, congratulations to my friend, Kirsten McLaughlin, Cox Communications’ market vice president and the new board chairwoman of the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce. Kirsten McLaughlin, Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce chairwoman. (Santa Barbara Partners in Education photo) I was privileged to twice serve as chairman of the old Goleta chamber, the first time during the Great Recession and t...

Firefighters undertake extensive efforts to free occupant from wreckage 600 feet down embankment Santa Barbara County firefighters work to extricate an injured person from the wreckage of a vehicle that plunged off Harris Grade Road near Lompoc on Thursday.  (Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo) By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully | UPDATED 5:12 p.m January 21, 2021 | 3:40 p.m. A vehicle plunged off the side of Harris Grade Road near Lompoc on Thursday, and ended up down an embankment with one person trapped inside, according to the Santa Barbara C...

The pilot, two passengers and a dog escaped injury in the December incident No one was injured when a small plane crash-landed on Dec. 27 near the Santa Ynez Airport. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department file photo) By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully January 15, 2021 | 7:53 p.m. A pilot who crash-landed near the Santa Ynez Airport last month experienced mechanical troubles in flight, leading to the unplanned touch-down in a field. About 6:15 p.m. Dec. 27, a pilot and two passengers escaped injury in an accident involving a Beechcraft Bonanza 35 airplane, a...

If you’re reading this, congratulations! You made it through 2020. Happy new year! With — literally — 2020 hindsight, there are so many things we wish could have been different about last year. In spite of the challenges, though, there were innumerable blessings and accomplishments. On a personal level, my son, Will, married the love of his life, Colleen Bannon, and the Los Angeles Dodgers finally won the World Series. From a community standpoint, a large team of us pulled off the merger of the Santa Barbara, Goleta and Carpinteria Valley chambers of commerce, creating the new Santa Bar...

The first solid storm of the 2020-21 winter season brought Santa Barbara County unusual southwesterly gale-force winds and the first significant rainfall since March, soaking a parched land still struggling under drought conditions. Officials said the rainfall will have little impact on the county’s major reservoirs, but the moisture will reduce the danger of wildfire in a county where as recently as Dec. 6 the National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for extreme wildfire danger. Capt. Daniel Bertucelli, spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, said it’s har...