FOOD STUFF
••• Let’s start a new kind of restaurant award.
••• The area has another empanada specialist (above).
••• Kyle’s Kitchen takes over the last Silvergreens.
••• Fancy dates are in season.
••• Update on Telegraph Brewing Company from a former employee.
••• Helena Avenue Bakery bakes pies.
••• Vineyards for sale.
••• Peasants Feast review.
••• Solvang tiki bar is an homage to Disneyland.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Cosmetic improvements to the State Street Promenade.
••• Santa Barbara schools to adopt hybrid model in January.
••• Sotto Il Monte estate manager Tobias Pohlmeyer.
••• First Independent Redistricting Commission members selected.
••• Input for changes to Girsh Park.
••• New branch of Montecito Bank & Trust.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• A new home store is opening in Montecito’s Upper Village.
••• What’s up with the cool Glass Pavilion house abandoned after the debris flow?
••• Update on the residential conversion of a water tank.
••• State Street Promenade Market to start up in early November.
••• The city’s network of “community paseos.”
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PRICE CUTS
The week’s top price reductions: New contemporary with big views and exotic flourishes; Campanil sprawler with dated interiors; midcentury on the train tracks; rococo (or not?) in Bel Air Knolls; “such an almost” on Eucalyptus Hill; and more.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• New State Street hotel moves forward.
••• No trick-or-treating on Coast Village Road this year.
••• Another bear spotted in east Montecito.
••• Clic shop opens today.
••• Architects discuss their dream for a better downtown.
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