GUESSING GAME
Can you identify which restaurant is home to each of these restrooms?
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Contemporary drop-down in Toro Canyon; midcentury spiffer-upper in the Lower Village; likely spec reno in Hope Ranch; Montecito mini compound; floops of a Mesa fixer-teardown; 2,500-acre cattle ranch northwest of Buellton; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Santa Barbara bans single-use plastic foodware at restaurants.
••• The accidental deaths of a noteworthy couple.
••• Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum will close.
••• Residents to vote on making a Paseo Nuevo deal more palatable to the developer.
••• Action on overtime abuse at the county sheriff’s office.
••• The Frog Wall’s owner on the recent changes there.
••• Carpinteria is shutting down an elementary school.
••• Public input on Gaviota state parks.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
Know where this was shot? Prove it in the comments.
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