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January 19, 2025

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Newsletter: January 19

January 19, 2025|by Erik Torkells

NEWS ROUNDUP
••• The county is finally doing something about the cannabis stench.
••• Did Ty Warner destroy this artwork? (photo courtesy Herbert Bayer Estate)
••• Biltmore to install butterfly-shaped swim rafts.
••• The stone pines of E. Anapamu get a reprieve.
••• Macy’s at La Cumbre Plaza survived the first round of store closures.
••• Santa Barbara may raise bus fares.
••• Out-of-control minivan on Stearns Wharf.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: A prominent architect’s cool live/work building; 1920 Monterey Colonial near the Upper Village; for-sale-by-owner in Romero Canyon; East Mesa for $4.195 million; fascinating Bungalow Haven compound; 1980 funk in Bel Air Knolls; and more.

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ODDS & ENDS
••• King Kong comes to Montecito.
••• The Talbots store at La Cumbre Plaza is closing.
••• Khruangbin returns to the Santa Barbara Bowl.
••• Gillian Welch and David Rawlings to play the Granada Theatre.
••• A short stone wall on the Eastside.
••• Tree maintenance to affect two major streets.
••• When license plate recognition fails.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
Know where this was shot? Prove it in the comments.

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