Tag archives: 2025

Montecito Association Reflects on a Year of Action and Looks Ahead to 2026
By Houghton Hyatt   |   January 5, 2026

As 2025 comes to a close, the Montecito Association reflects on a year marked by active advocacy, community collaboration, and meaningful progress on issues that directly affect quality of life in Montecito. With strong support from its members, volunteers, and community partners, the Association continued to serve as an independent and consistent voice for the […]

New Year, New You: Articles to Start Your New Year.
By Zach Rosen   |   January 5, 2026

Here we go again, turning the page on another year! For us over here at the Montecito Journal, 2025 marks 30 years of publication in this Village of the Charmed. By our quick and approximate reckoning, that’s ~ 62,400 pages (gulp) and several warm decades of neighborly “gossip” over the back fence, public announcements, hometown […]

More Than Just Wishes for 2025
By Gwyn Lurie   |   December 31, 2024

The year’s end always feels monumental – filled with endings, beginnings, stock-taking, plan-making and desk-clearing to create a clean slate for all the positive developments we hope will come along with our next giant circle around the sun. So, what do we hope 2025 will bring? More importantly, what are we going to do to […]