Odds & Ends

October 15, 2020

A New Home Store Is Opening in Montecito’s Upper Village

Plus: What's up with the cool Glass Pavilion house abandoned after the debris flow?; update on the residential conversion of a water tank; State Street Promenade Market to start up in early November; the city's network of "community paseos."

October 13, 2020

Westside Park to Close for Three-Month Renovation

Plus: Fashionable pop-ups at the Montecito Country Mart; Rancho San Carlos's astonishingly low property tax; Mollusk surfboard swap; county sheriff officer goes viral; film recommendations from the SBIFF.

October 10, 2020

Hiking Trails Have Reopened in Los Padres National Forest

Plus: Ace Rivington's store is moving; Seda Custom Skincare is opening a second location; Aman-inspired house also available as a rental; Lotusland's plant auction is online for the first time; plastic-bag recycling bin reappears at Vons; an attempt to address Highway 101 congestion in Pismo Beach.

October 7, 2020

Downtown Virtual Reality Studio Has Closed

Plus: Map showing cannabis permits for the county; trial date set for Jeffrey O'Neil's bluff-top property in Summerland; the city is offering pickleball clinics; the Beverly Hills of Solvang.

October 3, 2020

The County’s Batty Guidance for Celebrating Halloween

Plus: Santa Barbara's newest roller-skating club; 21 more acres of cannabis in Carpinteria; new art gallery on Coast Village Road; Santa Barbara Historical Museum online exhibit about the Mission; new look and location for Big Brand tire store on Milpas.

September 30, 2020

Forest Closure Extended Yet Again

Plus: New York City home store opening in Montecito; Governor Newsom signed the bill banning many rat poisons; 30 new electric-vehicle charging stations at a downtown garage; grants for small businesses coping with Covid-19; royals deny reality show report.

September 25, 2020

Closure of Los Padres National Forest Extended Again

Plus: The county has allowed nail salons to reopen indoors; two Montecito houses slated for demolition; another nine-acre cannabis nursery in Carpinteria; sheep grazing at Skofield Park; Covid-19 update from Sansum Clinic's CEO; help ban a dangerous rat poison.

September 19, 2020

Eight-Acre Cannabis Farm Proposed for Carpinteria

Plus: First glimpse of the stone-tower house being built on East Valley Road; Santa Barbara Airport expansion; construction has started on the Las Positas/Modoc bike and pedestrian path; new date for John Legend's Santa Barbara Bowl show.

September 16, 2020

Fabulous Estate Sale in Los Olivos This Weekend

Plus: What the proposed battery array on E. Gutierrez will look like; pop-up gallery in Montecito; updated renderings of the Summerland Elementary School; what to do if you find a wild animal that needs assistance.

September 10, 2020

Anacapa Island Will Likely Close to Visitors Next Fall

Plus: New drawings of the new Summerland Elementary School; help beautify the Moullet House; Caltrans plans to remove the Alamo Pintado Creek Pedestrian Bridge; film about woman who swam across the Santa Barbara Channel.