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A local youth sports team is opening the door for LGBTQ+ youth in athletics, and they are doing it on wheels.
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A Santa Maria activist is banding together local youth to inform fieldworkers and their children about their rights. As the son of farmworkers himself, he says it's personal.
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Last week the Chumash Fire Department in Santa Ynez was honored by tribal leadership and the U.S. Forest Service for their work during fire season. The department was established to train and prepare firefighters for working with the forest service.
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Guadalupe is seeing growth, redevelopment and revitalization due in large part to some friends of the city: a nonprofit collective called Los Amigos de Guadalupe.
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The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant sits on land that once belonged to a local indigenous tribe. That land is currently owned by PG&E. But in August, when the state legislature was debating whether to extend the life of the power plant, the tribe sent Governor Gavin Newsom and President Biden a letter asking for the property to be returned to them as their ancestral land.
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One year ago in August, the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan forcing thousands of Afghan citizens to flee the country. That led a Central Coast non-profit called SLO4Home to raise money to house 10 refugee families.
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A Santa Maria non-profit is helping the city gather volunteers for cleanup and paint projects. The organization is called Serve Santa Maria, led by a local retired pastor who says he never dreamed his organization would grow exponentially over the years.
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The California legislature is considering whether to try to extend the operation of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant by another 5 to 10 years. The YTT Northern Chumash Tribe say they want the governor's support in reclaiming the land where the plant sits.
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Santa Barbara celebrated its 98th Old Spanish Days festival last weekend, drawing large crowds to lively parades and ceremonies. But some say celebrating at the mission glorifies a violent period in California history.
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The Morro Bay State Park Museum of Natural History is hosting an exhibit showcasing the impact of World War Two on the Central Coast. California State Parks staff say they hope it will educate people on the Central Coast about the history of the Japanese-American experience here.
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The Santa Maria Public Library is kicking off an educational summer series this weekend filled with different sounds and instruments from North, Central, and South America.
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This year’s theme is ‘Invest In the Earth.’