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Shop Local Gift Guide, Part 1: This holiday season, make an effort to spend your money here—because If you want wonderful independent shops, you need to support them. I’ve done some advance work, picking out possible gift items at Westward General and Folly.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Lamborghini caught going 152 miles per hour on Highway 154.
••• Santa Barbara Cemetery wants to add 2,358 crypts.
••• The county sets its sights on Carpinteria for housing.
••• Surfliner Inn ballot measure inches closer to failing.
••• 7-Eleven on Milpas was looted by teenagers and will close soon.
••• The children’s library at the Central Library has reopened.
••• “Social media superstar” bought on Mission Canyon Road.
••• Carpinteria water-purification facility in the works.
••• The tree of the month is the weeping fig.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Mysterious activity at one of Montecito’s biggest properties (above).
••• Santa Barbara Bowl Christmas tree lot isn’t happening this year.
••• Hermosillo Road finally gets advance Highway 101 signage.
••• The Music Academy of the West shortened its name.
••• New clothing store coming to State Street.
••• Inn at Mattei’s Tavern will open in February.
••• Updated rendering of Santa Barbara High School’s forthcoming VADA building.
••• Golf store changes hands (and brings in pickleball equipment).
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