GET OUT OF TOWN
The Dolomites are a prime example of how certain destinations appear to become wildly popular overnight. But don’t let that discourage you: our self-guided hiking trip from hotel to hotel was one of the best trips we’ve ever taken. Plus: Milan for the first time, and testing out an all-business-class airline.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Hope Ranch fixer floopsed for $800,000 loss; off-market Montecito charmer; 1998 six-bedroom in Hope Ranch; Via Clarice for a loss; West Mesa spec reno for nearly $4.4 million; floopses of a Las Alturas project and a Riviera mini-compound; 40-acre avocado farm in Casitas Pass; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Montecito is getting a public pickleball court (above).
••• Landscape designs for the Coast Village Road medians.
••• New gym in the Funk Zone.
••• One hundred trees to be removed for the reconfiguration of the Los Patos Way off-ramp.
••• Vandenberg Space Force Base’s launch alerts are no longer useful.
••• How to opt out of receiving the Yellow Pages.
••• Rainbow Kitten Surprise returns to the Santa Barbara Bowl.
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