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Longtime Santa Barbara County Leader Dies

A man who served as Santa Barbara County's Treasurer-Tax Collector for nearly two decades has died.

Gary Feramisco was hired as Santa Barbara County's assistant treasurer in 1982. 

He was elected as tax collector, and public administrator in 1985.  He went on to serve 18 years in office before retiring.

He died at his home in Carpinteria.  Feramisco was 77 years old.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral. 
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