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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The Rotary Club of Carpinteria Noon recently took a tour of Island Brewing Company, at 5049 Sixth St. in Carpinteria, led by ...

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

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