Randy Rowse Dropped Out of the Mayoral Race

••• “For the second time in six days, a hiker on a trail above Montecito has been rescued after being bitten by a rattlesnake.” And there have been a bunch of snakebites in Ventura Country this year. If you hike in the afternoon, be extra careful—and remember that if you’re wearing headphones, you won’t hear the snake warn you. (The photo is from years ago but still relevant.) —Noozhawk

••• “Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse Will Not Seek Re-Election [….] He said he made the decision for personal reasons, and has ‘nothing to do with any kind of issue or any individual.’ […] City Council members Eric Friedman and Kristen Sneddon have already announced their intent to run for the seat. Wendy Sims-Moten, executive director of First 5 and a former school board member, also recently announced her campaign for the seat.” —Noozhawk

••• “Santa Barbara County has revoked licenses for nine cannabis operators after the businesses failed to install carbon scrubbers before the end-of-March deadline. […] Operators who had their licenses revoked do have the option to appeal the decision and request a hearing to present evidence. If an operator does not properly appeal the decision within 10 days, the revocation becomes final. At that point, the operator must begin to wind down and cease operations.” —Noozhawk

••• “A water project is about to break ground in the Carpinteria Valley—a $90 million system for converting wastewater to drinking water. It’s a joint project of the valley’s water and sanitary districts, and it’s the first of its kind in the county.” —Santa Barbara News-Press

••• Ensemble Theatre Company announced its next season: Jonathan Tolins’s Buyer & Cellar, “a one-man show about an out-of-work actor who [works] in the private shopping mall that Barbra Streisand built in the basement of her Malibu estate”; the musical Rent; the world premiere of a musical called The Last Used Car Lot in America; an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon; and Sam Shepard’s True West. —Independent

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