FOOD STUFF
••• Another vegan restaurant has closed (above).
••• Pascucci will close in mid-March.
••• New Santa Barbara development to have four or five restaurants.
••• Expanded hours at Oat Bakery’s Goleta outpost.
••• The name of the restaurant at Hotel El Roblar in Ojai.
••• Considered Coffee is now stationed at The Factory.
••• Santa Ynez Valley “wine BID” won’t include Lompoc.
••• Donation line on a credit card slip.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: New England traditional in Toro Canyon; tri-wing midcentury near the Cold Spring trailhead; 6,900-square-footer with a backyard built for fun; multi-level turnkey in Park Highlands; Mediterranean atop TV Hill; dazzling views on La Vista del Oceano; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• ICE officers seen on the Eastside and Westside.
••• Pacifica Graduate Institute to leave its Lambert Road campus (the Ladera Campus is pictured above).
••• Cannabis revenues keep falling.
••• Goleta shopping center getting remodeled.
••• New effort to restore kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel.
••• The tree of the month.
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