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Santa Maria, California
Joined March 2009
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Read Get Outside online here: newtimesslo.com/sanluisobisp… Or better yet, pick up a hard copy on a local newsstand!
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Thank you to all of our amazing Distance-Learning Heroes for helping our kids stay successful and motivated on their educational journey! We raised over $15,200! We had our heroes' names printed in @SBIndyNews and @SantaMariaSun! To see the ads, visit dvsolutions.org/positivelypa….
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Additional rain yesterday caused more of the stretch of East Camino Cielo to slip & Forest officials have closed the road. This area is unsafe for motorists and cyclists for safety concerns with more rain on the way.
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Playing Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors was an amazing experience that I will never forget. Thank you @SantaMariaSun for the wonderful review and for featuring it in your Year in Review!
What a year! The Santa Maria Sun featured SMCT's production of Little Shop of Horrors in its 2018 Arts Year in Review. More quality productions are coming in 2019, starting with A Streetcar Named Desire, opening January 25th. For tickets, go to smct.org.
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How do you celebrate the New Year?
25%Watch the ball drop.
8%Midnight kiss.
17%Lots of drinking.
50%Sleeping in.
12 votes • Final results
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COVER STORY: Human blowtorches: Local fire artists use bodies, props, and breathing to guide flames. Sun Staff Writer Spencer Cole and Photographer Jayson Mellom spoke with local fire dancers and flow artists from Ignite Fire Dance. Read and see more at buff.ly/2AwuvpC
What's your favorite flow art?
0%Fire dancing.
0%Hoop spinning.
0%Poi and staff spinning.
100%Chainsaw juggling.
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Are more prescribed burns the answer to managing wildfires?
50%Yes, burn baby, burn!
0%No, more harm than good
50%Don't know, not an expert
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What kind of writer do you want to be?
50%Novelist
0%Screenwriter
0%Journalist
50%Erotic fan-fiction author
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SB Sheriff: Nearly 5,500 plants destroyed. In short, Sheriff gives each plant an average value based on how much each individual can produce & multiplies that with the avg street price per pound of harvested pot. The dollar figure may be a little high, but that's a lot of dope.
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Santa Barbara County Sheriff is reporting Cannabis Compliance Team confiscated and destroyed nearly $3 million worth of marijuana plants from illegal grows in the Cuyama Valley. Team has been busy since they went into operation earlier this month.
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Do you think district elections for city council are better or worse for representation?
0%Better.
0%Worse.
100%I'm neutral.
0%District what now?
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Cal Poly has lifted its campus-wide Greek suspension, five months after a Lambda Chi Alpha brother was photographed in blackface. newtimesslo.com/sanluisobisp…
What do you think of the Enos Ranch development in Santa Maria?
56%Love it!
6%Hate it.
17%Will judge when done.
22%Welcome to Little Oxnard!
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What about the rest of us? #SantaBarbaraCounty, cities, and nonprofits search for funding options to create long-term solutions for homelessness | Cover Story | @SantaMariaSun #SantaMaria Sun, CA santamariasun.com/cover/1775…
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What should be done to address homelessness?
40%More affordable housing.
20%Anti-panhandling laws.
20%More social programs.
20%Camping enforcement.
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The @brenucsb SmartFarm project uses cloud computing to help farmers increase #sustainability. "They're basically taking what Google and the internet are doing with information and applying it to ag," @UCANRBethGC told @KBubnash @SantaMariaSun
UCSB SmartFarm uses cloud computing to help farmers increase sustainability: buff.ly/2LmDfln
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Have you ever seen a mountain lion?
67%Yes.
33%No.
0%I hope I don't!
0%Just country club cougars
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Vegetation fire 4/10 of an acre Highway 101 southbound between los Carneros and Fairview Goleta. Forward progress has stopped. Call NEWSLINE for more info – at Santa Barbara, CA
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BREAKING: Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies discovered “human remains” in the ocean near Isla Vista on Tuesday evening. The Sheriff's office is currently unable to identify the age, sex and identity of the remains. dailynexus.com/2018-07-24/sh…
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