David Van Wingerden’s family traces its growing roots back 15 generations. When his father and other relatives emigrated from the Netherlands in the late 1960s, California’s Carpinteria Valley became their home. For anyone wondering how these West Coast Van Wingerdens...

For the past three years, the “skunky” stench of marijuana swirling around Carpinteria, penetrating homes, schools, parks, beaches, freeway lanes, and even funerals at the cemetery has pitted neighbor against neighbor as the cannabis greenhouse industry exploded just...