Newsletter: August 26

JUST LISTED
When someone decorates a house to the nines, the way this 1915 house on Emerson Avenue has been decorated, attention really must be paid.

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FOOD STUFF
••• Casa Blanca appears to have closed.
••• Two new taquerias on State Street.
••• Praise for Noemi’s Roman-style pizza.
••• Caruso’s has gone entirely prix fixe.
••• A standout tartine at The Lark.
••• Drunken Crab clarification.
••• Revolver profile ands review.
••• Paseo Nuevo closures.
••• Proposed fee on bottle purchases at county tasting rooms.
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CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
Lookout Park’s east end renovation is almost done: it has driftwood-topped pergolas, a bocce court, concrete ping-pong tables, and space for a food truck.

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ODDS & ENDS
••• Let’s stop poisoning owls and hawks.
••• Weekend limits on Montecito beach parking.
••• Space Home & Garden’s “safe soft opening” (above).
••• Montecito Village storefront appears leased.
••• “World-famous sculptor” looking for a rental.
••• Short film about Lotusland.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Bureaucratic bickering over the Olive Mill roundabout.
••• Fundraising drive for new Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network hospital.
••• Update on local census repsonse rate.
••• UCSB sorority house flouted pandemic rules with a big party.
••• School-board candidate Monie de Wit.
••• Fight over Junípero Serra statue in Solvang.
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