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In a case of life imitating art, a pickax-wielding man smashed his way into a Santa Maria house, terrorizing a family of five who took refuge in a back bedroom until police arrived.
The horror-movie-like incident began at about 10 p.m. Monday when 15-year-old Willie Estrada, a Pioneer Valley High School student, heard a knock on the front door of his family's home in the 900 block of North School Street.
Estrada said he was able to get a quick look at the man's face before the visitor put his hand over the peep hole.
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The Righetti High School band program has been spared, at least for now, though the teacher who leads it will have her hours reduced.
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The last week of April and the first week of May still found grape growers being awakened by their frost alarms. Cold mornings, with temperatures tenaciously holding on to temperatures down into the low 30s, were more common than not.
Our pinot noir and chardonnay grapes are beginning to bloom. Ideally, growers look for even temperatures with no big swings between daytime and evening.
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Seven Arroyo Grande hits, including catcher Lucas Kephart's three-run home run. Thirty-nine Jason Ochart pitches. Three Glendale Hoover errors.
Oh yes, eight Arroyo Grande runs. That summed up the bottom of the fourth inning Tuesday as the Eagles snuffed out the Tornados, 8-0 in a CIF Southern Section Division II wild card game at Arroyo Grande's POVE Field.
The Eagles were errorless behind Corey Butcher, who stymied Hoover on three hits, all singles. “He's money,” Kephart said of his batterymate after he checked the Tornados on a 78-pitch complete game. Wysong said the shutout was Butcher's first this season.
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A Human and his STDs wanted more exposure
So the underground, punk-rock band based in Santa Maria paid $100 to Dark Sky Records, owned by Rich Macke and his business partner, Greg Santori, to be on a compilation CD that was distributed to college and underground radio stations and Internet radio stations. The band received 10 CDs of their own, which they could sell back to others if they wanted to.
Human (who said he won’t reveal his real name to anyone) owns his own record label based in Santa Maria, Back Door Records, so you’d think he wouldn’t need the help of another label. But Human said at the local level, the focus is more on collaboration than competition, because bands need all the exposure they can get.
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Declare war on eco-barons Absolutely the most frequently voiced complaint from the American public is the high price of gasoline. These prices are because demand exceeds supply. As the world becomes more industrialized, the problem worsens, we place blame on politicians, big oil, the Mideast, etc. The solution is to increase supply by repairing and building more refineries, along with tapping our own oil supplies from the Gulf Coast, Pacific Coast and Alaska. Jobs will never return to the U.S. Certainly any foreign investment will be thwarted by the cost of energy. Alternative fuel sources are a nebulous concept, while causing problems such as higher food costs, deforestation, etc. The blame falls squarely on the shoulders of our environmentalist policies and people. This group would rather see our country become part of the Third World economically, than admit they were wrong or relinquish their power. Oil drilling can be done less invasively than it used to be. We must rid ourselves of many policies and power these eco-barons hold over us. Jim Fowler/Santa Maria
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