Goleta Valley Voice Roundup - 6/22

Front Page:
Plans for giant house in limbo
After hours of testimony Tuesday afternoon, the county Board of Supervisors postponed a final decision on an appeal made by the Gaviota Coast Conservancy on a 13,000 square-foot home planned for a rural area along the Gaviota Coast.

News Briefs:
Going to the wall to fight graffiti
Some 36 volunteers helped turn a long, grim stretch of cinder-block fence into an attractively landscaped deterrent to graffiti.

City formally protests plan to hike water charges
The Goleta City Council put an exclamation point on its displeasure with a proposed increase in water meter fees.

Sheriff's Blotter

• Thank you for not sniveling
• It's the little things you notice
• Out on a limb
• Thieves and jerks
• Too special to be a victim
• Swap-meet rip off
• Baffled shoplifter
• Fingerprints at the scene
• Bad tip, dude
• Sealed with a kiss

Viewpoint:
Editorial: Noleta in the middle
What’s to become of the unincorporated area between the cities of Santa Barbara and Goleta?

Letter to the Editor: A word of thanks
Thanks to the 36 volunteers who contributed 174 service hours at the Hollister Avenue Anti-Graffiti Landscaping Project.

Balancing the schools budget
Santa Barbara School Districts have cut more than $5 million from their combined $125 million general fund annual operating budgets for 2007-08. Making budget cuts is not new to our districts. Student enrollment has been declining for a number of years and we have been paring the budgets accordingly.

Community:
Goleta Scrapbook: Next stop, hell in a hand basket
In the 1890s Goleta became a hotbed of activity, with workers descending on the Good Land to work on Southern Pacific Railroad’s coast line.

Business:
Strictly Local: MasterCare Home Cleaning System
Residential cleaning may seem a world away from the restaurant business, but Spencer Dean, proprietor of Woody’s Bodacious Barbecue in Magnolia Center for 23 years, says both businesses are all about service.

Other articles at at the Goleta Valley Voice website.