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Laney Beaver
Even though Indy intern Laney Beaver didn’t grow up here, she still feels right at home in Santa Barbara. Read story.
Porter Spencer
Copies of The Independent are showing up in far-flung corners of the world, but this shot from Porter Spencer—who manages hydraulic lift equipment for Bardex Corporation in Goleta—was the first we’ve seen from Asia, specifically Batangas in the Philippines. Read story.
Laura Tsunoda
Laura Tsunoda comes to us from Brown’s alternative weekly, The College Hill Independent (nicknamed The Indy), but has had no qualms transitioning from a feature editor to a newsroom intern. Read story.
Kathy Pfeifer
County planner Kathy Pfeifer started reading The Independent in 1982 when it was the News & Review, and she decided to bring a copy along during a recent backpacking trip to the Olympic Peninsula coast in Washington with her son Zac and friends/former S.B. residents Gilda and Ben Wheeler and Ara Erikson. Read story.
Chelsey Steinman
Recent UCSB grad Chelsey Steinman is The Indy’s first wine writing intern ever, penning both feature articles as well as our new wine blog, Tasting the Transverse (independent.com/wine). Read story.
Robby Robbins
One of the first things that The Independent’s Robby Robbins did when he moved here from North Carolina was get the office involved in the Summer Solstice parade. Read story.
Celeste Phillips
You might not think it from looking at her, but Indy intern Celeste Phillips has a mean right hook that — as a graduate of UCSB’s Professional Editing program — she’ll nail you with if your grammar and punctuation aren’t on-point. Read story.
Blake and Sue Haralson
When Blake and Sue Haralson moved to Goleta in September 2009 after Blake's job was relocated here, the first advice they got was to pick up a copy of The Independent to see what was happening around town. Read story.
Dolphin Sisters
Does this statue look familiar? That's because James "Bud" Bottoms sculpted it, just like he did the one at the base of Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara. Read story.
Indy Goes Coachella Camping
While their kids were partying at the Coachella Music Festival in April, Julia Rabe and Ken and Diane Siegal-Doud took off for Box Canyon where, according to Rabe (pictured), they enjoyed a “riot of spring-blooming flowers, cacti, ocotillo, lizards, and one very shy desert tortoise.” Read story.
Barry Taugher
When Barry Taugher decided to take his wife, Nora, on a surprise escape to Paris earlier this year, he snagged a copy of The Independent because, as he put it, "All the newspapers there are in French." Read story.
Katie Weber
We don’t know what’s more endearing about Indy intern Katie Weber: the fact that she’s an avid hula-hooper or the fact that she has a rock collection Read story.
Candace Schermerhorn
It seems like The Independent is getting around the world these days quite a bit. Read story.
Sophie Baer and Morgan Benedict
Sophie Baer and Morgan Benedict, two middle school students who spent Spring Break in Costa Rica, brought that week’s copy of The Independent with them and sent us a picture to prove it. Read story.
Jackson Friedman
While some dream of being an author or airplane pilot one day, it seems that Jackson Friedman may have found his calling as a copy editor for The Independent. Read story.
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