Editor’s note: This version of the endorsement has been updated since it appeared in Monday’s Morning MoJo. The Montecito Journal recognizes that both leading mayoral candidates, Kristen Sneddon and Eric Friedman, are decent, hardworking people who have served this city for years. But this isn’t a choice between a good person and a bad one. […]
There are worse fates for a Chanel than being wrapped around a teacup. Still, it is probably not the preferred one. Years ago, while hunting through vintage and antique shops for old sewing patterns, Cara Austine-Rademaker asked one shopkeeper whether she had any tucked away. She did. They were in the basement, where she had […]
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