FOOD STUFF
••• Jeannine’s has soft-opened at State and Cabrillo (and its Upper State location has reopened).
••• The Good Plow’s fundraising drive was successful.
••• Golden Line Coffee is now open Fridays.
••• Alfresco dinner with Get Hooked Seafood and Fairview Gardens.
••• Backstage Kitchen & Bar has rebranded.
••• Dune Coffee Roasters shirts.
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HOT PROPERTY
Notable sales from the past seven days: Big house for a very big price; eight-figure off-market in Ennisbrook; Eucalyptus Hill midcentury itching for a makeover; house on seven acres northeast of the botanical garden; Upper East bungalow; and more.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Buyer of half-built estate to tear it down and start over.
••• The return of the Hope Ranch “volcano” (above, courtesy Santa Barbara County Fire Department).
••• The Santa Barbara Zoo’s rare Amur leopard is pregnant.
••• Bear spotted on the Lower Riviera.
••• Northbound 101 onramp at Casitas Pass slated to reopen.
••• Robert Cray Band to play the Lobero.
••• An amusing sign at Evan’s Relaxing Station.
••• The 1860 adobe embedded off E. Figueroa.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Travel in and out of Santa Barbara is way up.
••• Planning Commission insists on changes from the Montecito Club.
••• A new location for this fall’s California Avocado Festival.
••• Marymount School has changed its name.
••• Floyd Mayweather boxing studio opening here (above).
••• Two brothers have picked up tons of garbage this summer.
••• News-Press rebuked by the National Labor Relations Board.
••• The restoration of All Saints-by-the-Sea church is complete.
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