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Rock and role-playing: new virtual game engages geology students

September 14, 2020

Anna Botello checks out a Wi-Fi hotspot from City College Librarian Ellen Carey on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 at Luria Library in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Library is open most days for technology checkouts.

Luria Library brings convenient curbside pickup to City College

September 14, 2020

Pablo Ochoa, a City College Bookstore employee of eight years, has seen wait times of to 2-3 days due to difficulties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ochoa said they have used new approaches for the new problems arising for the Bookstore, and that this semester has been

City College provides students with laptops, Wi-Fi for online semester

September 4, 2020

City College Student checks in before the first day of Physical Education classes on Monday, Aug. 31 at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, Calif. All students and staff must complete a health survey before being allowed to participate in on-campus activities.

Physical Education brings classes back outdoors at La Playa Stadium

September 4, 2020

File Photo of La Playa Stadium from Oct. 2018

SBCC football players test positive for COVID-19, will be quarantined

September 4, 2020

The footbridge connecting East and West campus was once a bustling destination for City College students who needed to cross campus, now as classes are fully online the bridge is empty on Monday, August 31, 2020 at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif.

City College enrollment plunges, international students fall by 50%

August 31, 2020

Terese Brunner cuts Mitch Schrage’s hair at home while barber shops remain closed in the area on April 15, at their home in New Holstein, Wis. Schrage occasionally gets his haircut at a barbershop and usually has Brunner trim his hair in-between visits.

Channels’ photographer shows life under quarantine in Wisconsin

May 1, 2020

Owner of Blue Ridge Honey Greg Mitchell has seen sales go up as the local farmers market has remained open throughout the state-wide business closures on Tuesday April 21, 2020 in Downtown Santa Barbara, Calif.

Farmers market still bustling, lively despite new COVID-19 guidelines

April 27, 2020

Peter and Naomi Pavia in homemade masks stitched by Naomi on Tuesday, April 21 in Downtown Santa Barbara, Calif. Naomi Stitches masks to donate to friends, neighbors and nursing homes while Peter thinks the virus is exaggerated, but wears a mask to be courteous to others.

Masked: The rise of custom masks and the Santa Barbara residents using them

April 27, 2020

Illustration by Kai Zheng

I saw a tiger, and the tiger saw a man: The rise and fall of Joe Exotic

April 17, 2020

Mary Orr waves during a visit with her friend Eileen Carlson through a window of the Villa Alamar Retirement Community. Carlson is a resident at Villa Alamar and is allowed to communicate with friends and family on the phone through the window under house policy. Photo courtesy of Luciana Mitzkun Weston.

Providing care in assisted living home difficult during quarantine

April 13, 2020

Beach goers stand gazing out over an empty West Beach near Stearns Wharf, one of the few citizens out due to statewide shelter-in-place orders brought on by the novel coronavirus.

Sheltering in place: A look at life in SB after COVID-19

April 10, 2020

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