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Lompoc
A city in Santa Barbara County, California — population 42,253 as of 2020.
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News in Lompoc
Santa Maria Sun
16 hours agoLost in the drama surrounding the censure hearing for a Lompoc City Council member on Sept. 15 was an agenda item to discuss an additional roadway crossing of the Santa Ynez River. Currently there are already three crossings: one on North H Street, one on Floradale Avenue near…
Government & Civic
Santa Maria Sun
September 24Tie vote blocks Lompoc from censuring Steve Bridge
Three hours into the Lompoc City Council’s Sept. 15 meeting, Councilmember Steve Bridge asked his peers to remember the oath they recite in unison ahead of every agenda. It’s the same oath many schoolchildren have already memorized by kindergarten. “We started today the way we…
Government & Civic
Santa Maria Sun
September 24Political theater
Things got a little wild at Lompoc’s last City Council meeting—so wild that Mayor Jim Mosby asked police officers to forcibly remove a woman from the chambers. “Can you please remove her?” Mosby asked about resident Shawna Stillwell, who continued speaking after he warned the…
Government & Civic
Santa Maria Sun
September 24Cabrillo High’s aquarium gets a fresh mural
New additions at the Cabrillo High School Aquarium include seals and dolphins. However, instead of swimming around in tanks, they’re painted on the building’s interior walls. San Luis Obispo County artist Colleen Gnos began working this spring to refresh her original kelp forest…
Creatives & Arts
Santa Maria Sun
September 24Angelina LaPointe crowdfunds for her 2027 wildlife calendar
Lompoc block printer Angelina LaPointe is hoping to carry on a 10-year tradition of making her annual calendar of California flora and fauna. But first, her project needs to reach its financial goal. Her Kickstarter campaign must raise $3,500 before Oct. 16 or it’s a no-go.…
Creatives & Arts
Santa Maria Sun
September 17Farm to tax table: County supervisors erase Lompoc farm’s five-figure tax debt for farmstay operation
Laying a Lompoc egg farm’s tax appeal to rest recently divided local officials, who simmered over the issue across two lengthy hearings this summer. The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors’ reception to Dare 2 Dream Farms’ plea to forgive about $65,000 in unpaid taxes was…
Government & CivicIn and around Lompoc
See & do
- AR Catering
- Arbor Square Apartments
- Artesia Schoolhouse Museum
- Awaken Cardio Kickboxing
- Babe Ruth Baseball Field
Eat, drink & stay
- Alfie's Fish & Chips610 N H St
- Ampelos Cellars
- Budget Inn
- Alfie's Fish & Chips610 N H St
- Ampelos Winery
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Lompoc by the numbers
- Area
- 11.62 sq mi (30.1 km²), 0.08 sq mi water
- Median age
- 35.1
- Households
- 14,199
- Persons per household
- 2.9
- Median household income
- $72,004
- Median house value
- $472,900
- Office
- CITY ADMINISTRATOR
- Address
- 100 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, LOMPOC, CA 93436