VICTORY!
Foothills Forever has reached its goal: In what is truly an impressive accomplishment, the effort to save the 101-acre West Mesa of the San Marcos Foothills that was slated for development has been successful.
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EXCLUSIVE
Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and model Behati Prinsloo have flipped El Miraval, the Montecito estate that they bought three months ago for $22.7 million. They made a pretty profit, too.
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FOOD NEWS
••• Rascal’s is opening another longterm pop-up restaurant (above).
••• California will allow take-out alcohol through year end.
••• Get popular Priedite Barbecue without waiting in line.
••• Palihouse hotel is only serving cold food because of a kitchen glitch.
••• Cost Plus World Market is applying for an instructional tasting license.
••• A profile of 4 Eggs & Pizza.
••• The sad state of the Montecito Wine Bistro.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• A battle is brewing over Mission Creek Bridge.
••• Ticks are on the rise in coastal California.
••• More on the human remains found in Montecito.
••• The push for a Coast Village Road business improvement district.
••• How prescribed burns work.
••• The lure of Montecito’s Golden Quadrangle.
••• Seaside Makers Collective opening on State Street.
••• Coast and sheep put to work on Eucalyptus Hill.
••• Cannabis farm broke air-pollution laws for nearly a year.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Alaska Airlines to start nonstop service to San Diego.
••• A new company that designs home gyms.
••• Photography book by Santa Barbara County Fire Department’s Mike Eliason.
••• One Plant cannabis shop has opened in Goleta.
••• The price revealed of Adam Levine’s flip.
••• Cute bobcat video.
••• An aggressive legal maneuver by the county’s Planning and Development department.
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