WALK WITH ME
A voyage to the heart of the San Roque Spider Web: What lies at the center of Argonne Circle? Not much, actually. But getting there was fun.
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HOT PROPERTY
Noteworthy sales last week: Playing hot potato with a $28 million Montecito mansion; the biggest price Birnam Wood has seen in years; a prime parcel on funky Coyote Road; a 1923 house in Carpinteria; and more. See what sold—and for how much. (Photo by Eric Foote.)
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Signs of life at State Street’s toy train museum.
••• A new home for the Vintage Fox antiques store (above).
••• The latest on Ortega Park’s murals.
••• Another push for landmark designation for the Bungalow Haven neighborhood.
••• A neat new residence proposed for downtown.
••• The Santa Barbara County Association of Governments seeks committee members.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Should Santa Barbara ban the Fiesta rodeo?
••• Man drives into laundromat in an attempt to hurt someone inside.
••• Efforts to address the homelessness situation.
••• Hospitals now require proof of vaccination of negative Covid test to enter.
••• County poised to seize property for the Randall Road Debris Basin.
••• The science behind the Hope Ranch “volcano.”
••• New hotel and workforce housing proposed for Solvang (above).
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