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• CIRCULAR ISSUE

• Lawyers expect few last-minute amnesty filings

• Exploring culture, fostering community

• Ambitious Alzheimer's center searching for a home, funding

• Bird absolved in grounding of Oprah's jet

• City comes up with building for Solstice Parade organizers

• THE JOY OF WINTER IN CALIFORNIA

• Public Square

• Death Notices

• Chabad lights up 'Lego Menorah' for Hanukkah

• Enchanting show, atmosphere add to solstice celebration

• How and why we regret the errors

• NEWS-PRESS HOLIDAY FUND

• Challenges in the Future

• Bird cracks windshield, grounds Oprah's jet

• Board calls for review of pensions

• Broadcast plus iPod equals new craze: Podcasts

• DA's race may be a solo run

• Discounts and happy returns

• In Brief

• PUBLIC SQUARE

• Death Notices

• Big Wednesday at Refugio Beach

• Janet (?!) Jackson tops the Zeitgeist

• Taking the new toys out for a spin

• Species and survival

• Donor fatigue hard to measure for local charities

• Donor fatigue hard to measure for local charities

• Goleta West Sanitary District abandons plan for merger

• The strength of chestnut eyes

• Tsunami survivors left struggling one year lateR

• PUBLIC SQUARE

• Death Notices

• DEATH NOTICES

• CHANNEL ISLANDS: BEFORE AND AFTER HUMANS

• Evolution of the islands

• In Brief

• Local agencies share in federal grants to help homeless

• Prominent area couple perished in plane crash

• Retired Navy commander ready for new role in coast's housing fight

• Santa faring well in Oxnard home

• TWO-FAITH FAMILIES SHARE HOLIDAYS' JOY

• With fascinating life-forms, islands are 'a laboratory of evolution'

• In Brief

• Measure D meeting opened to public

• Spreading Holiday Cheer

• Train hits car stuck on tracks

• THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME

• Abalone fishery may be reopened

• Plane that left S.B. airport crashes, killing two on board

• Small Montecito wields big stick in political arena

• Death Notices

• A fate worse than Katrina?

• FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

• Ensemble Theatre's director to step down

• Elections chief defends county's voting machines

• Single mom's way with words is keeping her family rolling

• Teen swimmer making a big splash

• Carpinteria Notebook: Angels wrap up holiday cheer

• Doctor brought dialysis to Santa Barbara

• Former sheriff gets his man, won't challenge Anderson

• Local home sales, prices head south

• LURE OF CHRISTMASES PAST

• Peak of flu season may arrive early this winter

• Bridge becomes a work of art

• Special Delivery

• PUBLIC SQUARE

• Death Notices

• Correction

• Terror's first international stage

• Swell weather

• City accuses BFI of mishandling trash

• Deathbed confession latest twist in slaying

• Devereux school faces state scrutiny

• Officials trying to save embattled Sheriff's Council

• La Conchita arms itself for disaster

• Local Mormons prepare to honor faith's founder

• St. Andrew's lights up Nativity play

• CHP rescues man trapped inside overturned truck

• Body of car crash victim flown home to Texas

• Christmas Treasures

• Mass transit merriment

• Groups appeal project for upper State Street

• Horton likely to serve on First Five panel

• Holiday variety show airs on public access

• Public Square

• Watchmaker used talents to develop medical devices

• Former Lompoc mayor donated land for library

• Correction

• Death Notice