JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings include an architect’s delight on four oceanfront acres asking $39 million; a baroque villa high above Montecito; a $16.75 million Picacho Lane flip; Mediterranean that went pending fast; and a sweet 1948 house walking distance to the Upper Village. Check ’em out.
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FOOD STUFF
••• A gelato shop is opening in Ojai.
••• Restaurants continue to reopen for outside dining.
••• More space at the Lark and more service at Bettina.
••• Introducing “Santa Barbara County’s only luxury brownie business.”
••• Barbareño launched dinner kits.
••• Two healthier takes on a burrito.
••• State Street Coffee is on a break.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Two more Summerland Beach wells will get capped.
••• Update on the effort to stop development next to the San Marcos Foothills Preserve.
••• James Joyce III joins the mayoral race.
••• Peanuts Maternity & Kids shop is closing.
••• Commercial eviction moratorium extended.
••• Adapting Goleta Beach Park to rising sea levels.
••• New thrift store in Goleta.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Cottage Hospital plans to demolish four small buildings across the street.
••• Opening date for the San Ysidro Creek Bridge.
••• Birnam Wood house raises its price by $1.6 million.
••• Pattern Recognition at Sullivan Goss.
••• La Segunda’s terrific eye for vintage.
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