July 25, 2020
Other recent news: Rumored layoffs at the Biltmore; 16,000-square-foot mixed-use development opens soon in Paso Robles; progress in farming shellfish off Ventura; a push for manufactured fish reefs off Goleta.
June 16, 2020
Other recent news: Santa Barbara pulls $2 million in funding for the new police station; list of black-owned businesses in Santa Barbara; a push to landmark St. Paul’s AME Church; snowy fleece is the tree of the month.
May 24, 2020
Plus: Have you walked down State Street now that it's closed to cars?; a stripped-down Jeff Shelton rental; a pair of Montecito notables have gone MIA; two more sales of note.
May 13, 2020
Plus: Channel Islands reopening strategy in the works; house asking for twice the rent it asked for three years ago; new fire restrictions in Los Padres National Forest; Highway 101 median trees cut down; free rocks.
April 29, 2020
Four months after closing on the Hedgerow property, Portia de Rossi and Ellen Degeneres have fixed it up and put it on the market with a name befitting an old house and a price befitting a new one—which is only appropriate, given the house incorporates two 18th-century barns shipped over from England.
January 22, 2020
Two houses and a condo, actually. Other recent news: Uber is letting drivers at Santa Barbara Airport set their own fares; indoor-cycling studio at the La Cumbre mall; Southern California Edison accused of dumping debris into Mission Creek; Eastside Library reopens.
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Well said, I was sleeping lightly at 3:40-ish this morning when I heard a rumbling sound, then some minutes later by a muffled BOOM. Not… — Dan
My take is that I’m fine being woken up at 3 am for national security launches. We live near one of the two good launch… — Andy
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You really have to have your head deep into the sand to believe what you just wrote. If you only knew... — Jefferson A.
It might benefit you to cut back on the tin foil useage bro! Merry Christmas! — Christine!
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Parking is the nemesis of these apartment projects. It is incredibly expensive and torpedos viability. The state law abandoning this as a requirement actually made… — John
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