JUST LISTED
The recent renovation and spot-on staging have made the 1911 cottage at 428 Corona Del Mar—likely the sweetest property within walking distance to East Beach—as pretty as a picture in a magazine. So what’s not to like?
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Manning Park’s ranger-in-residence weighs in.
••• Funk Zone water mains are getting replaced.
••• Free screening of Lotusland documentary.
••• Ruth Bader Ginsburg gifts.
••• Southern California Edison meeting about power shutoffs.
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PRICE CUTS
Is the cannabis boom hurting high-end real estate in Carpinteria? Also newly reduced: What might be the prettiest house in Montecito; 1928 Tudor estate with room for a carnival; an El Caserio–style duplex condo downtown; San Roque charmer with a mancave out back.
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NEWS DIGEST
••• A visit to the new virtual reality studio on State Street. (That’s “jousting,” above.)
••• Initiatives to curb homeless encampments get stymied.
••• More on the new debris basin in Montecito.
••• Caltrans has a plan to deal with Highway 1 traffic in Big Sur.
••• One of the last drive-in theaters on the Central Coast is in peril.
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All I'm suggesting is that the sign say "no outlet for cars" or something like that. — Erik Torkells
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