NEWS ROUNDUP 11/7
••• Where Ellen DeGeneres and Rob Lowe have bought now.
••• Large waves expected.
••• The homeless situation at Pershing Park.
••• Monoliths atop a Santa Barbara building and in San Luis Obispo County.
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WALK WITH ME
Wedged between Hendry’s Beach and Hope Ranch, the Yankee Farm neighborhood is like Brigadoon, but drier, with parts that feel as if they haven’t changed in decades.
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NEWS ROUNDUP 11/8
••• Central Coast counties push for fairer assessment of ICU capacity.
••• Goleta man charged with having 92 firearms.
••• Southern California Edison will pay $3.5 million for dumping into Mission Creek.
••• Overnight camping prohibited in Los Padres National Forest.
••• Chumash Casino Resort refuses to pause operations.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Parking enforcement suspended during the stay-at-home order.
••• New four-story building proposed for Santa Barbara Street.
••• San Francisco gallery opened an outpost near the Arlington Theatre.
••• SoCalGas’s wireless telecom infrastructure.
••• Merchant of Venice pop-up on Coast Village Road.
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