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Oct 15, 2024 | 
vianolavie.org | Nina Berry |Isabella Leonard |Mallika Vashist
By Nina Berry, Isabella Leonard, and Mallika Vashist“Were you afraid?” I asked Dr. Leona Tate. It’s a chilly November morning in November 1960 in the 9th Ward of New Orleans. A young girl—just 6 years old—makes her way up the steps to attend her first day at McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School. Surrounding her are more than one hundred policemen. Alert, they attempt to maintain order as a massive crowd—over a thousand strong—watch her ascent while jeering in protest.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
independent.com | Callie Fausey |Jean Yamamura |Josephine Trilling |Isabella Leonard
California congressmembers are working to turn down the volume and clear the air across the entire Pacific Coast. Last week, representatives Salud Carbajal and Jared Huffman introduced a bill for a new federal program to encourage shipping companies to voluntarily reduce their speeds to protect marine life and cut air pollution.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
independent.com | Leslie Dinaberg |Isabella Leonard |Nick Welsh |Ángel Albino Corzo
Western Chapter ISA Tree-Climbing Championship Competition at Alameda Park in Santa BarbaraThere's clawing your way to the top, and then there's climbing your way to victory - which is what Carpinteria resident Jacob Claassen and Kate Miller, the 2024 Tree-Climbing Champions, did on Father's Day weekend at the 2024 Western Chapter ISA (International Society of Arboriculture) Tree-Climbing Championship.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
independent.com | Jean Yamamura |Josephine Trilling |Isabella Leonard |Jack Magargee
Review of Launch Expansion Postponed, 2,250-Room Project Moves Ahead at Site Once Destined for DormzillaThe spot where Munger Hall is not being built on the UC Santa Barbara campus, now destined for a traditional building containing 2,250 rooms and lots of windows, was approved for clearing by the state Coastal Commission on June 12.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
independent.com | Leslie Dinaberg |Isabella Leonard |Matt Kettmann |Ryan Cruz
Audiobook narrator and Santa Barbara-based Actress Claudia Dunn has lended her talents as part of the Ukraine Audiobook Relief Project, which was launched this week to support artists in Ukraine whose lives are threatened because of war.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
independent.com | Ryan Cruz |Jack Magargee |Isabella Leonard |Jean Yamamura
If my friend Laura hadn't moved several years ago, I might have discovered Julian Hayes's community workouts sooner. Laura and I used to walk our dogs through Shoreline Park on weekends, but I stopped frequenting the park when she decamped to Orange County. So, it ended up being my dance friend Gina who told me about Hayes's Saturday classes in Shoreline Park: "basically like a personal training session for a very reasonable donation," she raved.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
independent.com | Josef Woodard |Isabella Leonard |Ryan Cruz |Jack Magargee
Each year in Santa Barbara, the Music Academy of the West festival unfolds with a series of what could be called soft openings. The public-invited portion of the program begins with the necessarily pricey fundraising Gala, and June is sprinkled with worthy concert action, such as the TakácsString Quartet performance on June 20.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
independent.com | Josef Woodard |Isabella Leonard |Ryan Cruz |Jack Magargee
The formidable Ojai Music Festival has returned to the Ojai Music Festival business at hand. Birds, unpaid and uncharted freelancers, chirp along in the idyllic venue of the Libby Bowl, along with the extra-musical sounds of welcome church bells and unwelcome car alarms and motorcycles. Festival-goers lounge into a weekend in a dreamy hamlet, catching concerts at 8 a.m. and throughout the day and evening. All is - and was - well.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
independent.com | Ryan Cruz |Jack Magargee |Jean Yamamura |Isabella Leonard
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
independent.com | Richelle Boyd |Ryan Cruz |Jean Yamamura |Isabella Leonard
With graduation just around the corner, we want to celebrate our Indy interns who are turning their tassels. This week, we are highlighting graduating senior Isabella Leonard, who has been working with our news team. What first brought you to the Independent as a news intern? Have you done journalism anywhere else before? I am in the UC Santa Barbara Professional Writing Minor program on the Journalism track, and part of our course is to find an internship for our spring semester.
