Can a Plant Pot be Disposed of in the Trash for Collection?
A social media user recently posed a question regarding the disposal of an unwanted plant potter. The individual wanted to know if it was permissible to place the potter in the trash can for collection. The potter in question is approximately 15 inches tall and 18-20 inches wide at the top, small enough to fit in a...
Santa Barbara Airport Administration and Badging Offices Closed for Holiday Break, Terminal Remains Open
The Santa Barbara Airport Administration Office at 601 Firestone Rd will be closed from December 22, 2025, to January 2, 2026. This closure follows the City of Santa Barbara’s holiday schedule. The Airport Badging Office will be closed on December 25-26 and January 1-2. Both offices will reopen on January 5, 2026.
One of Santa Barbara’s Once Homeless Pays It Forward
Among the people helping to sort, cull, collate, and curate all sleeping bags, socks, jeans, T-shirts, scarves, hats, and implements of human warmth now being donated as part of the Santa Barbara Public Defender’s Office’s fifth annual collection drive for people living on the streets is a woman named Tracy Hobson.
Volunteers prep hundreds of Thanksgiving meals to break bread with Santa Barbara community
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—For the past 6 years, hundreds of volunteers have made sure people have a place to feel at home during Thanksgiving in Santa Barbara. “There are so many people out there who either don't have a kitchen to cook Thanksgiving dinner or maybe they don't have the funds for a full Thanksgiving meal....
‘Grandest Opening’ Held for New Tibetan Museum in Santa Barbara
The soft ring of singing bowls and the warm waft of dumplings cut through the chatter of La Cumbre Plaza as the Museum of Tibetan Art & Culture and Legacy Art Studios held its “Grandest Opening” on November 21. At the center of the celebration was Lama Tashi...
‘Thousands of dollars that just my little business lost’ City of Ventura dials back...
VENTURA, Calif. — The City of Ventura is working to clear up confusion over whether water there was contaminated with gasoline. A warning went out to residents in the Pierpont neighborhood, instructing them to “not use the tap water.”. But the “do not use order” was later dialed...
Toys for Tots Drive Begins Across Santa Barbara County
The County of Santa Barbara will be collecting donations for the annual Toys for Tots drive at locations in both Santa Barbara and Santa Maria. Toys can be dropped off at donation boxes at the County Administration Building in downtown Santa Barbara, the Joseph Centeno Betteravia Government in Santa Maria, or in...
Family Hired P.I. to Search for Their Missing Brother, but It Took Decades to...
Partial skeletal remains discovered more than 40 years ago in Southern California have been identified through DNA technology as belonging to a missing Vietnam War veteran and Bronze Star recipient, authorities announced this week. The victim has been identified as Thomas Aquinas Cooney, born on Oct. 5, 1950, in Bryn...
Downtown Santa Barbara Welcomes Game Seeker’s New Flagship Store
Game Seeker will open a new location in Santa Barbara at 920 State Street. The Downtown Santa Barbara Improvement Association (DSBIA) partnered with the store to celebrate the occasion with a public ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 25, at 2:30 p.m. Game Seeker will host its Grand Opening on November 29,...
Santa Barbara church members uncover quarter-century-old time capsule
A recent discovery by members of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara has brought back a flood of 1990s nostalgia: a time capsule hidden behind a bathroom wall.
