This installment from Chris Hecox’s column “Snapshots of Carpinteria” was originally published in CVN on Dec. 18, 2003.

Carpinteria third grade students explored the Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve for Katie Roberts Bluffs Day, an annual day ...

Local philanthropist Lynda Fairly was announced the 2024 Carpinterian of the Year (COY) at the Carpinteria Community ...

I was in Fairbanks, Alaska in July. That close to the Arctic Circle, summer has super-long days and very short nights. In ...

Karl Fredrickson, the Carpinteria High School boys basketball and water polo coach, announced he would be stepping away from ...

Julie Romero Hathaway — an eighth-generation Carpinterian and Carpinteria High School graduate — has been chosen to depict ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about downsizing lately. A neighbor died not long ago, and I watched her kids clean out her condo.

Once imagined as a sustainable transportation alternative, e-bikes have become something else entirely: high-torque, throttle ...

On Monday night, the Carpinteria City Council formally recognized two city employees — Environmental Program Manager Erin ...

Ian and Rania Mather’s home is the winner of Carpinteria Beautiful’s April Lookin’ Good Award. The award is given out to ...

Pacific Health Foods is celebrating 35 years in business and 10 years of being owned and operated by Nathan and Whitney Noll.

Girls Inc. of Carpinteria opened its newly-renovated John C. Mithun Foundation Library, housed in a silo on the nonprofit’s ...