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NORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’S NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY > JANUARY 7 - JANUARY 14, 2021 > VOL. 21 NO. 45 > WWW.SANTAMARIASUN.COM VISIT US ONLINE @santamariasun.com. AT THE MOVIES SIGN UP for E-Newsletter(s) LIKE US on Facebook FOLLOW US on Instagram FOLLOW US on Twitter 1 Midnight sky: Sci-fi adventure [16] Law enforcement blames crime increases on COVID-19 jail restrictions [7] BY KASEY BUBNASH Old Town Market’s ‘An invitation to cnagy wines relocates NEWS open again [4] ARTS touch’ [15] EATS to Santa Maria [17] VOLUNTEERS BOOK YOUR AD BY: JANUARY 7 - JANUARY 14, 2020 VOL. 21 NO. 45 oth the Santa Barbara and SLO county sheriff’s offices JAN. 8 say they experienced an increase in reported crimes PUBLICATION DATE: during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the reasons JAN. 14 Showcase how your Bbehind crime increases can be complicated, law enforcement attributes 2020’s rise in part to a law designed to business lends a helping reduce jail and prison populations during the pandemic. Staff 2 hand to the community Writer Kasey Bubnash has the details [7]. BALANCING ACT: Law enforcement agencies on the Central Coast say This week, the Old Town Market is back open but its future is in the annual Volunteers preventing COVID-19 from spreading in still uncertain [4]; take a journey with silk painter Belinda Hart special issue. jails and prisons is causing an increase [15]; and cnagy wines moves all its operations under one roof in crime. [17]. Camillia Lanham HEALTH & editor Cover file image by Steve E. 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Main St. Monday – Friday at: SantaMariaSun.com Santa Maria, CA 805-922-3548 www.santamariasun.com • January 7 - January 14, 2021 • Sun • 3 SPOTLIGHT 8 BRIEFS FILE PHOTO BY ZAC EZZONE Political Watch • Both legislative bodies of Congress voted to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense 4 Authorization Act Conference Report, the annual defense bill for which U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) served as a conferee and helped draft the final product. According to a Jan. 1 statement from Carbajal’s office, this marks the first time that the House and Senate have come together to override a Trump veto during his presidency. “The president’s reckless veto put our national security at risk all to serve his own self-interest,” Carbajal said in the statement. “With this overwhelming and bipartisan override vote in both chambers of Congress, we have once again proven that our military and our national security are more important than politics.” Carbajal advocated for the Small Passenger Safety Act to be part of the bill, which will implement “long overdue safety reforms to small passenger vessels” in the wake of the Conception boat fire tragedy in 2019. Carbajal also advocated for the Offshore Wind Working Group, with the defense bill directing the secretary of the Navy to work with the group to identify a region for offshore wind development. The defense bill also authorizes funding for military-university partnerships for local schools like UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly. Also included in the bill is a funding increase for space launch capabilities, including at Vandenberg Air Force Base. • Gov. Gavin Newsom released the Safe Schools REOPENED: The Old Town Market for All plan on Dec. 30, which his office described as reopened as a grocery store under “California’s framework to support schools to continue new ownership at the end of 2020, operating safely in-person and to expand the number of but its future is still uncertain. schools safely resuming in-person instruction.” The plan includes an “early action package” so that schools have the resources they need to safely reopen. “In-person is Future of Old Town Market But then on Dec. 23, the Old Town Market the best, the competition in Orcutt is stiff. the best setting to meet not only the learning needs but suddenly reopened under new ownership, and not If Natural Healing Center is unsuccessful in as a Natural Healing Center dispensary, but as a obtaining its cannabis retail permit, he said the the mental health and social-emotional needs of our still unclear local grocery store once more. Old Town Market will remain in the hands of kids,” Newsom said in a statement. The plan is a phased Orcutt’s Old Town Market is up and running as a local neighborhood grocery store again after a According to the Santa Barbara County its new owners, who he said plan to continue strategy that will start with bringing back the youngest Assessor Division, the Old