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- Aug 24, 2026
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Google Buys 83,000-Square-Foot Campus in Goleta for $32.5M (opens the original)
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On August 5, Hayes Commercial Group, a Santa Barbara–based commercial real estate brokerage, reported that the tech giant had purchased an 83,356-square-foot campus spanning 147 and 153 Castilian Drive, near the intersection of Los Carneros Road and Hollister Avenue, for $32.5 million. The purchase adds to Google’s existing presence in Goleta, bringing its current footprint to approximately 300,000 square feet, according to Hayes Commercial Group. The two-building property sits on roughly five a
A Different Odyssey in the Making (opens the original)
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Where do you go when there’s no place to call home — or when home isn’t necessarily a place you want to return to? What, for that matter, is considered home at all? For more than a decade, those questions have followed Michael Morgan. A UC Santa Barbara professor of voice and speech, Morgan has been bringing together UCSB students and incarcerated youth to create and perform their own adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. The Odyssey Project began in 2011, when Morgan partnered with Los Prietos Boys Ca
Despite Public Outcry, Goleta Gun Shop Is Scheduled to Open Next to Preschool (opens the original)
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Goodland Guns is set to open its doors in less than a month, while Goleta residents are still waiting to see whether the city can act to prevent the store from being next door to the preschool Here We Grow Early Learning Center. After the Goleta City Council’s closed-session legal briefing on August 12, the city announced it will revisit its rules governing where firearm retailers can operate, but in the meantime, the controversy has raised broader questions about how the relocation was approved
Santa Barbara Police Report Uptick in Arrests, Citations During Fiesta 2026 (opens the original)
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Arrests during Santa Barbara’s 2026 Fiesta increased by more than a third from last year, according to data released by the Santa Barbara Police Department. The celebration, held August 5-9, definitely did not fall short this year — pretty much every enforcement category saw an increase. Police handled 1,557 calls for service across the city, a 9 percent increase from last year’s 1,427. Throughout the celebration, officers were out directing traffic for the Fiesta Parade, Children’s Fiesta Parad
Providence School’s Prayers Answered with New Campus in Santa Barbara (opens the original)
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Roughly five years ago, Providence School faculty members walked through the former Girls Inc. property on Ortega Street and said a prayer. Now, after decades of searching — and, school leaders emphasized, praying — that vision became a reality on Thursday, after Providence broke ground on what will become the Christian school’s first permanent home. Currently their preschool through 6th-grade students attend classes at the school’s Calle Pinon campus, while the middle and upper school students
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