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Friday, May 9, 2008 10:43 AM PDT
A Goleta man suffered a broken leg and cuts and abrasions late Thursday afternoon when, apparently failing to realize that the traffic ahead was stopped, crashed his motorcycle into the back of a car on northbound Highway 101 north of Highway 217, reported the California Highway Patrol.
Curtis Oshock, 53, was taken to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital by ambulance where he was admitted.
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When Laura Cleaves was in high school, she wanted to learn how to rappel.
However, girls' physical education classes at the time didn't include the sport, said her sister, Bobbie Green.
Undeterred, the teenage Cleaves eventually convinced her P.E. teacher to let her join the boys' P.E. classes, where she became an expert rappeller.
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Showing off their baseball fundamentals, boys and girls ages 7 to 14 converged at Hagerman Sports Complex for the Pitch, Hit & Run Baseball Skills Competition Thursday evening.
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Linens ‘n Things stores on the Central Coast apparently will remain open despite the company's filing last week for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Blaming the housing market downturn, the firm's operator, Linens Holding Company, announced the bankruptcy filing for its U.S. subsidiaries in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
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Downey High School's boys tennis team had a four-and-a-half hour bus ride to the St. Joseph courts Thursday.
The Knights had their own bus - a momentum one. That bus rolled through the first round, slowed in the second, then roared through the third as the Knights downed the Vikings 14-4 in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division IV Playoffs.
St. Joseph (18-1) took all six first-round sets. The Vikings out-scored the Knights 4-2 in the second round. St. Joseph swept in the third.
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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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