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Vol. 32, No. 46
July 30 - Aug. 5, 2026
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Through the Lens of Mayra Martinez
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“Old Town” Fiesta celebrates history
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Leilani Ibarra and her steer, Knox, are among the 27 Carpinteria Future Farmers of America (FFA) students preparing to represent the community at the Ventura County Fair, Aug. 3-9. After months of early mornings, hard work and dedication, local FFA members will showcase their livestock and compete before the Junior Livestock Auction on Friday, Aug. 7. Learn how these young agricultural leaders are building lifelong skills—and how the community can support them—in this week’s feature on pages 0 and .
Throwback: Carpinteria City Beach
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A pier at the mouth of Carpinteria Creek and play equipment at the base of Linden Avenue were that found its way onto postcards, bumper stickers and signs luring visitors off the highway to dip their toes into Carpinteria’s nearly risk-free stretch of saltwater. “Although no valid tests have been conducted to prove Carpinteria is ‘the’ safest beach in the world, the head superintendent ranger of Carpinteria State Beach, Wes Chapin, noted that for every rescue Carpinteria life guards perform, Ventura life guards perform eight,” stated a Carpinteria Herald article in 1983. Kids arrived at the beach in the morning and left when the 4 p.m. train whistle signaled time to get home. Various “beach ladies” were paid a small wage to watch over the children in the sand during the summer. Mary Catherine “Buttons” Tobey recounted in a 2010 edition of the Car-
In the 1960s, controv and Ash avenues. More over the years, and jus in 1965, it faced a laws owners who claimed the a future county road, wa be a public right of way “What is at stake is beach, now legally kno strip of the finest beach and what happens at th balance of this commun ald in 1966. The sand stayed pub