Newsletter: July 2

EXCLUSIVE
Summerland is getting a bookstore: it’ll be in the 1921 building currently home to Garde, where everything is currently 50 percent off.

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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Brutalism gone wild at the San Ysidro trailhead; a 2008 Mediterranean with a remnant of the old Arcady estate; one of the most darling houses in the Hedgerow; new farmhouse-style construction in Montecito; vacant lots with approved plans on the Riviera and in Hope Ranch; 1928 Lower Riviera bungalow; 71-acre equestrian compound in the Santa Ynez Valley; and more.

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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• State Street Promenade extended for three more years.
••• Parklets off State Street get a reprieve.
••• Architect suggests a different promenade design.
••• Jeff Bridges bought in Hope Ranch.
••• Fergie sold her Santa Ynez Valley ranch.
••• Photos of last weekend’s Summer Solstice Celebration.
••• Eminent domain to be used for Goleta’s San Jose Creek Multipurpose Path project.
••• Gay pride flags stolen in Los Olivos.
••• The concert lineup at Ojai’s Libbey Bowl.
••• The tree of the month.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Pop-up dinner series at Brekkies by Pico’s original chef.
••• Stella Mare’s building would be difficult to tear down.
••• Porchetta sandwiches and cherry hand pies for July 4.
••• The tom yum fries at Na Na Thai.
••• High Seas Mead’s taproom gets the go-ahead.
••• Margerum’s new tasting room in Los Olivos.
••• Twenty-Four Blackbirds is growing its own cacao trees.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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