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Small Steps For Big Results
Starting to lose your nerve over those New Year’s resolutions?
Leslie Dinaberg has 10 tips to keep you going.

Farmer's Market

Farmers market mired in red tape
Red tape and crippling fees continue to stall a long-awaited, Goleta-centric farmers market in the Camino Real shopping center

Digging for history
It boggles the mind. In 11 years of writing The Dart column for another local newspaper, I never found a definitive history of Santa Barbara.

New Council backs NPO update
In July the Santa Barbara City Council debated whether to update neighborhood preservation guidelines. On Tuesday — in a striking example of the difference three new faces on the City Council have made — the question was how.

New medicinal patches may replace needle sticks
Achmophobes, fret not: drugs delivered by needles might eventually become passé, thanks to new research by a team of UCSB chemical engineers.

Healthy Resolutions: Food chain
Exercise gets you only so far. Eating healthy is a vital link.

Healthy Resolutions: Make back health a goal for 2004
In today’s fast paced, high-tech world, everyone seems to be looking for good health..

Healthy Resolutions: Healthy habits start early
Don’t leave the kids out of your New Year’s resolution fun. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers these healthy suggestions.

Island foxes fall prey to golden eagles
Golden eagles have killed more than half the captive-bred, threatened Channel Island foxes released on Santa Cruz Island in November and December, according to National Parks Service officials.

Veterans voice frustration over shift to Santa Maria
We’re all familiar with the inconvenient HMO requirement to consult with a primary physician before seeing a specialist, but what would you do if that specialist was 70 miles away in Santa Maria?

Sings of the flesh
Gloomy Sunday illustrates love’s joys and pains, framed within a cursed Hungarian song.

Written words of Love Letters
What do you call it when two actors sit in front of you, reading from a text? No, it’s not a closed casting call, it’s theater — and probably the most successful play by A.R. Gurney.

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