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Fire Exceeds 13,000 Acres E-mail
By Tom Schultz   
Friday, July 13 2007

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Commentary: We’re Signing Off, But Our Fight Goes On E-mail
By Santa Barbara Newsroom   
Friday, July 13 2007

Today, we’ll call it quits on reporting online at SantaBarbaraNewsroom.com.

We’ve enjoyed writing for the Web, a new experience for all of us print reporters who were illegally fired from the Santa Barbara News-Press. It’s been great running our own show, free of interference from an abusive publisher. We hope we have been of service to you since we launched the site on April 2.

We simply don’t have the funds to continue online indefinitely.  But we are not going away! It’s time to step up our campaign for reinstatement to the News-Press and a Teamster contract in the newsroom. Beginning Aug. 14, we will be on the witness stand as the News-Press goes on trial in Santa Barbara on charges of 15 violations of federal labor law, including our firings. This site will remain as an archive.

 

SBN TV SPECIAL: "NEWS-PRESS MESS, ONE YEAR LATER"

Santa Barbara Newsroom is taped every other week at the Santa Barbara Channels, and is scheduled to air at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. Saturday and 8 p.m. Sunday on public access cable station 17.

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Rancho Fire Nearly Contained E-mail
By Tom Schultz   
Tuesday, July 03 2007

Firefighters had a blaze that burned in Los Padres National Forest 80 percent contained by Monday morning, and expected it to be fully contained by early Tuesday. Crews mobilized from across Santa Barbara County and beyond to fight the Rancho Fire, which ignited Saturday along the Santa Ynez River near Paradise Road about five miles east of Highway 154. By late Monday, a signifigant portion of the more than 625 firefighters who responded had packed up and headed home.
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Fire Rages into Early Morning in Los Padres, 300 Acres Burn E-mail
By Tom Schultz   
Sunday, July 01 2007
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Hype Over iPhone Extends To Santa Barbara E-mail
By Rob Kuznia   
Saturday, June 30 2007

The hype over the release of the new iPhone swept the nation Friday afternoon – and Santa Barbara was no exception.

Of the roughly 150 people lined outside the door and around two corners at the Cingular Wireless store in the La Cumbre Plaza, at least a dozen had camped overnight for their coveted prize, for which they paid $600.
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WILD ART: Blaze Scorches Ruth Ave. Home Amid "Red Flag Alert" E-mail
By Tom Schultz   
Saturday, June 30 2007

An electrical fire burned through the roof of 410 Ruth Ave. late Friday, about a block from Highway 101 near Ortega and Castillo streets. Sparks shot from a power line suspended at the corner of the one-story home. The line fell toward the ground as firefighters pushed back a growing number of onlookers.

The flames consumed the top of the structure shortly after 9 p.m., after firefighters sawed a hole in its roof. By then, a half-dozen occupants and family members had safely evacuated the residence. The cause was under investigation, officials said, describing a fire that spread into and across the attic.

Earlier Friday, fire agencies declared a “Red Flag Alert” until 8 a.m. Sunday at the earliest for the southern half of Santa Barbara County. Affected areas are from Buellton and Santa Ynez south to the county line in Carpinteria.  County firefighters noted a change toward a warmer period coupled with low relative humidities and Sundowner winds in the forecast for the South Coast.


 
WILD ART: Solstice Takes Over State Street E-mail
By Santa Barbara Newsroom   
Saturday, June 23 2007

The 33rd annual Solstice Celebration pushed up State Street Saturday as tens of thousands of people watched and cheered the colorful procession that debuted in 1974.
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Solstice Celebration Info E-mail
By Tom Schultz   
Saturday, June 23 2007



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SBN Television: Newscast No. 2 E-mail
By Santa Barbara Newsroom   
Friday, June 22 2007

Please join us for a half hour of headlines and video reports and a chat with the Solstice Celebration's top planner in advance of the annual parade Saturday. In addition, reporter Melinda Burns delivers our first on-air commentary as we approach the July 6, one-year anniversary of massive change at the Santa Barbara News-Press. And John Zant talks baseball. This newscast appears every other week at 7 p.m. Thursday and repeats on the Santa Barbara Channels, public access cable station Channel 17.

   

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