Other local news: State-run testing sites are twice as slow than expected; city council seeks rent relief; Miramar resort might reopen next week; grand jury finds yet again that the the Sheriff’s-Coroner’s Bureau is substandard; Montecito garden renewal.
More food news: The Lark is now open for takeout; Satellite has a walk-up counter; a big honor for chef Daisy Ryan of Bell’s; Onus Donuts reopens Friday; one way to be a better restaurant patron.
Other noteworthy new listings: Turnkey gem on the Riviera; Montecito beachfront that wants a renovation; Mesa neoclassical listed for the first time; appealing 1947 Spanish house on Diana Lane.
Plus: Channel Islands reopening strategy in the works; house asking for twice the rent it asked for three years ago; new fire restrictions in Los Padres National Forest; Highway 101 median trees cut down; free rocks.
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Other local news: There’s talk of closing 13 blocks of State Street to cars; the state released guidelines for restaurant dining rooms; county reopening being slowed by Lompoc prison outbreak; pot-delivery business doing well; Botanik has a new greenhouse; Republican house candidate Andy Caldwell.
“I don’t remember them from previous years, at least not in these numbers,” asks R. “And does nothing eat them? They would seem to be easy prey, since they meander around so slowly and often end up on their backs with their legs wriggling.” The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has the answer.
More food news: Loquita, The Blue Owl, and Jeannine’s on Coast Village Road have reopened; Rusty’s Pizza in Summerland opened; profile of Organic Soup Kitchen.
The streets northwest of Montecito’s Upper Village are home to impressive estates, storybook cottages, a Richard Neutra house, and an indignant French bulldog.
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The owners of the Harbor restaurant should be ashamed of themselves. They made some bad decisions and should not have gotten involved in the restaurant… — Roy
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