FOOD STUFF
••• Outdoor dining is once again allowed at restaurants.
••• Next steps for the Beachside Bar-Cafe space.
••• Cajé’s State Street café has reopened.
••• Merci’s standout banana pudding.
••• The recipe for Bettina’s meatballs.
••• Glimmers of life at the old Wildwood Kitchen.
••• SLO wine shop for sale.
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JUST LISTED
Could sellers be optimistic the vaccines will allow them to move somewhere else? And/or are they afraid the boom is ending soon? Either way, there’s a ton of new inventory to check out….
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• The state’s stay-at-home order has been lifted.
••• Local fire chiefs collaborate on homeless encampments and other issues (above, by Rob Hazard).
••• Another store closure at Paseo Nuevo.
••• Former Unity Shoppe space has a new tenant.
••• City council incumbent-candidate Meagan Harmon.
••• Historic preservationist Kellam de Forest has died.
••• Profile of Santa Barbara Forge.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Bike-sharing launches this Thursday in Santa Barbara.
••• The zoo’s oldest resident has died (above).
••• An easy way to help small businesses around here.
••• Survey about county recreation planning.
••• Southwest airfares.
••• Aquatic rehab facility in the works at Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital.
••• A big new basement in Montecito.
••• Elings Park tennis office remodel.
••• New renderings of four-story building proposed for De La Vina Street.
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