••• “City of Santa Barbara won’t renew Santa Barbara Trapeze Co. lease for Vera Cruz Park [….] The Parks and Recreation Department will not extend the agreement because it plans to make Vera Cruz Park ‘free and open to the public.’ [….] The city has offered Santa Barbara Trapeze a few relocation options, [founder Randy] Kohn said, including a parking structure in downtown Santa Barbara and an area near the Santa Barbara Airport.” —Santa Barbara News-Press
••• “The Santa Barbara City Council reaffirmed its decision to keep State Street closed to cars, at least in the interim period while the city continues to work toward its permanent master plan. The decision, which came in a 5-2 vote on Tuesday, keeps the street pedestrian-focused as it is now, with plans to increase accessibility and address community concerns about e-bike safety in the near future.” What are they waiting for? The street can hardly be called “pedestrian-focused” when pedestrians are too scared to actually walk in the street. —Independent
••• “Gabe Escobedo, former president of the Santa Barbara Unified School District’s Board of Education and a longtime figure in local politics, officially launched his campaign for Santa Barbara City Council’s District 6 seat in the upcoming November election.” —Independent
••• The Apothecary at Heidi Merrick has opened at Merrick’s Summerland shop: “A stairwell leads to an apothecary shop, a treatment room, and a natural light-flooded ‘wellness atelier’ intended for gatherings, ceremonies, and special events.” —Santa Barbara Magazine
••• An update on the funding for the Santa Ynez Trail, which “is expected to run from River View Park in Buellton at its west end, through Solvang and past Santa Ynez and the Chumash Casino Resort to Highway 154 at the east.” —Santa Barbara News-Press
••• The Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) announced its upcoming season of classical music performances. —Independent
••• The tree of the month is the gold medallion tree, “one of the most spectacular of all flowering trees. In summer, eye-catching clusters of yellow blooms appear at the ends of its leafy branches—every cluster looks like an enormous bouquet of 30 to 50 individual flowers.” —Edhat (photo by David Gress, courtesy Santa Barbara Beautiful)
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