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Newsletter: March 22

March 22, 2026|by Erik Torkells

WELCOME WAGON
Monte’s has opened for dinner service, bringing farm-to-table dining to Coast Village Road. “The menu looks simple at first glance,” says Endwell Hospitality’s Ryan Sohn, “but there’s a lot of technique going on behind the scenes.”

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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Storybook mini-compound in a prime Montecito location; 90s-style ranch house in the super-oaky part of Montecito; Hope Ranch traditional; four acres with a fire-damaged main house; a quartet of cuties—two in San Roque, an Oak Park cottage, and a 1930 Alex D’Alfonso downtown; and more.

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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Is Calle Cesar Chavez headed for a renaming?
••• Trump administration forces restarting of offshore oil platform.
••• Jay and Kristen Ruskey’s cause of death.
••• More on the Montecito Country Mart’s fight to keep its post office.
••• The design for a downtown pavement art project (above).
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