FOOD STUFF
••• Two music venues, a restaurant, and a market/deli are planned for lower State Street (above).
••• Sando Truck’s Goleta situation isn’t working out.
••• Mother Dough Bagels profile.
••• Siam Street Food has opened.
••• Update on the expansion of the Renaud’s on upper State Street.
••• The Eddy now sells wine.
••• Wylde Works’s replacement didn’t make it.
••• The Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church’s annual GreekGrabGo is coming up.
••• New pizza-ish takeout in Ojai.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Montecito Mediterranean for $6.78 million; another full share in Hollister Ranch; Montecito Oaks off-market for $6.25 million; 1910 house across from Roosevelt Elementary School; Bel Air Knolls spec reno; ground-floor two-bedroom in Montecito Shores; Samarkand with pool and pool house; El Caserio fixer; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Two long-closed trails have reopened.
••• More on the I Heart Montecito storefront.
••• Livestreams of Britain’s National Theatre.
••• New gym opening on Chapala Street.
••• An all-string program by Camerata Pacifica.
••• Suzanne Vega to play the Lobero.
••• The city’s and county’s red tape problem.
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Renaming the post office and spending $500 k to do it. Is another great example tax payers money being wasted. — Dan Kolodziejski
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