Good morning, Santa Barbara ☀️
Here’s what we have for you today:
- Sofia Wallace talks with seniors concerned about displacement
- Roman Trovato shares the sad news about a baby red panda at the zoo
- Julianna Lozada goes to the Santa Barbara school board meeting
Joshua Molina
News-Press Editor
Top story
‘We thought we would spend our final days here’: Presidio Springs seniors fear displacement in wake of proposed redevelopment
By Sofia Wallace • Santa Barbara News-Press
Two-week-old red panda cub dies in mother’s nest at the Santa Barbara Zoo
By Roman Trovato • Santa Barbara News-Press
Santa Barbara Unified Board passes ‘intentional use of tech’ resolution
By Julianna Lozada • Santa Barbara News-Press
Stories you should know about
🌮 LA TACO has a well-written piece about the opening of Cafe Palestina in Norwalk. The shop has a Latino spelling because the owner says, “My Latino friends have been beside me from the beginning, supporting me and showing up.”
✏️ School enrollment in public schools throughout California is dropping. The state has 420,000 fewer students than it did about a decade ago. Read about the troubling trend.
🏡 The Daily Nexus reports that freshmen and transfer students at UCSB are now guaranteed two years of housing.
Mid-week news quiz
Have you kept up with Santa Barbara News-Press this week? Let’s see!
👨🏽🎓 Santa Maria teen Juan Tello Salinas won a college and career training scholarship for how much money?
A) $1,000
B) $1,500
C) $500
D) $17,500
Email info@newspress.com first with the correct answer to earn a shoutout in tomorrow’s newsletter.
This day in history
📰 Check out what I found in the archives!
Chalk this one up to another one I don’t remember! On July 22, 2004, I wrote a story about how developers were shocked to learn about a new fee slipped into the city budget to stage on public land. The public works department slipped the fee to use the public right of way. The story ran on the front page.
Awesome shot of the day
📸 Send us your favorite photo of something that shows off our incredible community. You just might see it in his newsletter. Here’s one I took recently of the view of Santa Barbara from the Riviera. We’re lucky to live here.
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