Newsletter: September 1

FOOD STUFF
••• Update on two new harborside restaurants.
••• Funk Zone tasting room for rent.
••• Recommendations for fancy cheese and bento boxes.
••• Labor Day weekend barbecue in Los Alamos.
••• Bibi Ji has begun selling wine online.
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HOT PROPERTY
The market remains red-hot: the week’s 13 noteworthy sales include Richard Neutra’s landmark Tremaine House and a run on the Ennisbrook enclave. Photo by Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10).

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WEATHER FORECAST
“Today will pretty much be a carbon copy of yesterday, with morning fog and low clouds,” says Jack Martin of Action Roofing. “On Wednesday, we’ll start to transition back to warmer weather, and by the weekend, we’ll be in a heat wave, with coastal temps 10 to 20 degrees above normal.” Email [email protected] to receive daily updates.

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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Hair salons are allowed to operate indoors again.
••• California has a new system to determine reopening schedule.
••• 13 schools submitted waivers to reopen.
••• UCSB moves almost all classes online and cancels all events and sports.
••• Prescribed burn at the UCSB lagoon.
••• UCLA Health’s expansion into this area.
••• Oil platform update.
••• Carpinteria city council candidates.
••• School-board candidate Virginia Alvarez.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• This is what happens when you run into a fire hydrant.
••• New book of Studio William Hefner’s work.
••• The city’s grammatically incorrect electronic signs.
••• State-operated Covid-19 testing site moved to Goleta.
••• Curve warnings installed along Route 192 this week.
••• Patches to help the fight to save Pine Mountain.
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