Summerland News

The riotous comedy, I Hate Hamlet, opens tonight Thursday, Nov. 5 on the Cannery Stage in the Cannery Trade Centre in Penticton and continues until Nov.

Summerlanders are showing local Olympic spirit and healthy living initiatives for a chance to win a $100,000 prize for the community.

So, the Board of Supervisors has decided to raise the speed limit on Via Real between Greenwell Avenue in Summerland and Toro Canyon Road.

If you like pairing chocolate and wine, youa TMll want to attend the S.B. Rape Crisis Centera TMs third annual Chocolate de Vine fundraiser.

If Santa Barbara has become a hotbed for medical marijuana dispensaries, then the Valley may be becoming fertile ground.

It might just be the Francophile in me, but when Renaud Gonthier, the master baker behind Renaud's, says croissant with his French accent, the "croi" sticks in your craw and the "ssant" is soft and sibilant and lingering.

Centre Stage Theatre was packed on Thursday evening as dozens of Summerlanders spoke out about a proposed change to the Official Community Plan.

Santa Barbara detectives arrested a man on Thursday after he walked into the police department carrying four concealed knives.

Dunjia Newcombe, right, holds up some of Sharon Christophersona s hair during a fundraising hair cut at the Summerland Legion on Saturday evening.

Charity events, events for the family, music in the park and more! Have an event coming up? Let us know! Stop by and check out our Santa Barbara County Business Directory and support local businesses.

A new organization has been formed to help Summerlanders attempting to lose a little extra weight.

Santa Barbara's sweet-life faA ade too often masks that poverty still exists amid the halcyon vistas and evidence of conspicuous consumption.

Over a five-year period, when he was in his 80s, celebrated Southern outsider artist Bill Traylor produced a flurry of work that beguiles with its simplicity of materials -- pencil and poster paint on discarded shirt cardboard -- and forms.

"Celebrate Summerland" is the theme for the town's first communitywide celebration, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and sponsored by the Summerland Business Association, MarBorg Industries and Montecito Bank & Trust .

TomA seen Foleya TMs "A Celtic Christmas" recreates the joy and innocence of a night before Christmas in an Ireland farmhouse, when neighbors gather around the fire to grace the long wintry night with the laughter of their stories and the joy of their music & dances.

Edward and Barbara Horrick are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kimberly Dawn Horrick, to Misha Aaron Ford, son of Paul Ford and Ana Victorson of Summerland.

HUMANITY'S NEW LEAF: Boundaries of human consciousness, prepare yourself for more pushing.

The Carpinteria Triathlon bicycle ride will take place on portions of Highway 192 and Highway 150 from 7:30 a.m. to noon Sunday.

A group of Summerlanders opposed to a cellular telephone tower on Little Conkle Mountain are preparing to take their complaint to court.

The economy looks bleak right now and we understand some sacrifices must be made, but we do not understand why the funding for arts and cultural groups has been put on the chopping block.