A rancher and a community activist have wildly different visions of a new Mission County: One welcomes job-producing oil development projects, while the other shudders at the thought of a bankrupt government and farmland replaced by housing.
In the first debate Friday over the county split, the two North County women sparred during a gathering of the Santa Barbara Industrial Association, bringing to the fore the growing divisiveness over the proposed split.
Santa Ynez Valley rancher Nancy Crawford-Hall favors an immediate secession of the north, while Joyce Howerton, spokeswoman for the Coalition Against the County Split, wants the county to remain united.
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