Year In Photos: Hellos and Goodbyes

Shoppers let out a collective retail rejoice with the openings of Target in both Santa Barbara...

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...and Goleta this year.

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Spiritual celebrations ensued in Goleta, where the Islamic Society of Santa Barbara opened their community center and mosque after more than a decade of planning.

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Montecito’s coastline grew posher with the opening of the long-awaited Rosewood Miramar resort, almost two decades in the making.

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Saying goodbye in 2019 were Samy’s Camera, Giovanni’s on Coast Village Road, and the Sears store at La Cumbre Plaza, an anchor of that mall since 1967.

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Saying goodbye in 2019 were Samy’s Camera, Giovanni’s on Coast Village Road, and the Sears store at La Cumbre Plaza, an anchor of that mall since 1967.

Photo: Paul Wellman

Saying goodbye in 2019 were Samy’s Camera, Giovanni’s on Coast Village Road, and the Sears store at La Cumbre Plaza, an anchor of that mall since 1967.

Photo: Paul Wellman