JUST LISTED
A semicircular ode to wood in Mission Canyon: Television producer Jan DeWitt is selling the house he built in the 1980s with a redwood exterior and all kinds of wood on the inside, including floorboards reclaimed from a San Francisco pier. Take a look around.
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NEWS DIGEST (PART 1)
••• One asymptomatic man is being held under quarantine at Point Mugu.
••• Parents argue for and against the new sex-education curriculum.
••• Test-driving trapeze school.
••• Progress on debris flow basin improvements.
••• Naked guy showering with a garden hose.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• The Apple store is now collecting visitors’ images.
••• New Lotusland exhibit about founder Ganna Walska (above).
••• Oceanfront property sells for well under the initial ask.
••• Amazon’s State Street building is on the market for $38 million.
••• You know you’re in California when….
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PRICE CUTS
The week’s top price reductions: “Country Mediterranean” Estate (↓$1M), newly staged Neoclassical in the Hedgerow (↓$255K), clean 70s interiors on the Riviera (↓$200K), ambitious spec renovation on Picacho Lane (↓$1.3M), and a pink palace atop Hidden Valley Lane (↓$955K).
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NEWS DIGEST (PART 2)
••• Universities expanding into downtown Santa Barbara.
••• Santa Barbara Airport noise complaints are up.
••• Notable shipwrecks around the Channel Islands.
••• A maddening Montecito intersection (above).
••• Carp residents file class-action lawsuit against cannabis farms.
••• Republican Assembly candidate Charles Cole.
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