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By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
May 12, 2021
| 8:13 p.m.
Eighteen years after giving up an engineering career and getting hired as a firefighter, Todd Tuggle has been chosen to lead the Santa Maria Fire Department.
Todd Tuggle
On Wednesday, City Manager Jason Stilwell announced that he had named Tuggle as fire chief, effective last Saturday.
A badge-pinning ceremony is scheduled during the City Council meeting on Tuesday.
It’s a different career than Tuggle had after graduating from Cal Poly in 1996 with an engineering degree, but he hasn’t looked back.
“I’ve never doubted it for a moment,” he said of the switch. “It’s been the most fulfilling, amazing, challenging (job). It’s never been dull from day one.”
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The Santa Maria Public Library is giving out free Spring Gardening Kits from April 12 - 17.
This is the fourth time the library’s Adult Services Department is offering the kits, an initiative started in 2020 during the pandemic.
Each one comes with six small pots, soil, plant markers, and seed packets. The kit also includes a live succulent cutting and a bookmark.
Gillian Speicher is a librarian at the Santa Maria Public Library. She says offering this service is one of the library s many efforts to bring locals together during the pandemic.
“We were closed for such a long time but we still wanted to connect with our patrons and still keep them involved in the library,” Speicher said. “So we started to come up with craft kits, the gardening kits, just to engage our community.”
COVID-19 delays United Airlines plan to return to Santa Maria
The Allegiant Air ticket counter at the Santa Maria Public Airport. The airline announced Tuesday that it will be adding service between Santa Maria and Portland, Oregon, beginning April 15. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo) By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
January 12, 2021
| 5:48 p.m.
Allegiant Air will offer flights from Santa Maria to the Pacific Northwest this spring, the airline announced Tuesday.
The announcement came as the COVID-19 crisis has again delayed the United Airlines plan, unveiled a year ago, to resume serving Santa Maria with two routes.
Allegiant announced several additions to its flight schedule, including service between the Santa Maria Public Airport and Portland International Airport starting April. 15.