Carpinteria News

Ever since his YouTube video of "My Guitar Gently Weeps" exploded onto the Internet in 2006, ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro's star has been skyrocketing across the United States and Japan, evidenced by a shower of albums, steady string of concerts, and high profile performances on This Monday, February 13, he brings his uke to Carpinteria's ... (more)

A judge today found that there is sufficient evidence to hold a Ventura man to answer to charges of vehicle manslaughter with gross negligence resulting in death in connection with a traffic accident that took the life of a 22-year-old Carpinteria woman in 2010.

The Third Annual Carpinteria Rotary Talent Show will take the stage Saturday, Feb.

Carol Pearson, inaugurated Thursday as president of Pacifica Graduate Institute , was on the fast track to a college presidency 25 years ago, but her husband, David Merkowitz, says she took herself off that track because she felt it wasn't the work she was called to do.

UCSB Reads continues through winter quarter with faculty members across a variety of disciplines participating in a series of Community Conversations at public libraries from Solvang to Carpinteria.

I had a craving for a Hercules Flip the other day. Since Kayser's has not been around for years, has anyone found anything with a similar flavor, or will my tongue never taste something like that again? I went to that health food store on calle real and they had a shake very familiar to the kayser flips! Although I don't make it out to Goleta much ... (more)

It was "Everything Carpinteria" at the 54th Annual Community Awards Banquet and the Carpinteria Valley Chamber of Commerce's 100th Anniversary Celebration held Jan.

Do You Sudoku? - You can now play the Daily Sudoku on Edhat. How fast can you fill in the blanks? Steven McGovern went out to the beach in Carpinteria and found about 50 seals on the shore.

With Super Bowl Sunday around the corner, party planners are preparing to indulge their guests in some great party food, including an all-time favorite: guacamole.

A Carpinteria company will haul away the equivalent of two football fields worth of sand along Shore Drive in the Pierpont area of Ventura, and the work could start within a couple of weeks.

Joggers, bikers and surfers traveling around Coal Oil Point Reserve adjacent to UCSB have seen the future of land management, and the future is the goat.

Bates Beach -- south of Carpinteria. Take the Bates Road exit; park and go to the left When is probably more important than where.

CARPINTERIA, Calif. - NiMin Energy Corp. announced Friday that it has decided to not renew president Sven Hagen's employment contract, describing the move as "a means to streamline management." "Effective immediately, Mr.

Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Below passes and canyons...areas of northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 30 mph in the morning.

Tuesday @9:39 AM ... on twitter REST IN PEACE ILENE BETTY KORT GELDIN THE BEST MOTHER-GRANDMA- MOTHER-IN-LAW IN THE WORLD 563-4626 16-year old Andrew Calzada originally ran away on Monday, January 16, 2012.

To save on energy bills, cities around the nation are setting their sights on a familiar target - high-pressure sodium vapor street lights and replacing them with light-emitting diodes .

What steps, if any, the Carpinteria City Council might take to publicly rebuke Councilmember Joe Armendariz for his second major drunk-driving incident in five years was postponed for three weeks Monday night because there weren't enough councilmembers on hand to cast three votes.

United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County CEO Michael Rattray, center, with award recipients Melanie Acton of Lompoc, Miguel Benitez of Santa Barbara West, Cesar Lizama of Goleta and Youth of the Year winner Jessica Pohl of Carpinteria.

On a Monday morning in November, two men sat on the edge of a field in Carpinteria, 85 miles north of Los Angeles.

South Coast entrepreneur Rachael Steidl said she was caring for her twin toddlers and was pregnant a decade ago when she started the website that became Parentclick.com. She told the story of the online family-oriented resource at her company's annual networking mixer Monday night at Business First Bank in downtown Santa Barbara before a crowd of ... (more)