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In the ten years that NatureTrack has been taking Santa Barbara County’s school-age kids on outdoor field trips, Steve Schulz […more…]

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More than 23 years ago, when Kate Carter completed an internship at Santa Barbara’s community access TV station, she could […more…]

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