Riding it out
Tri-county surf shops have taken quite a beating during the past year’s storm of changing retail trends, poor surfing conditions and a down economy. Now they’re looking for new ways to ride it out. Doug Yartz, owner and manager of Goleta-based surf shop Surf Country, could only sum up his store’s sales performance in one Read More →
Santa Barbara Public Works strikes gold
The Santa Barbara County Public Works Department won a gold excellence award from the Solid Waste Association of North America for the second year in a row. Last year, the county took top honors for its overall Integrated Waste Management system; this year’s award was for marketing, as embodied by its 2008 Green Waste Awareness Read More →
$1.5M for Westmont chair
Westmont College received $1.5 million from The T.B. Walker Foundation, an anonymous donor and other supporters to create the college’s first endowed chair in the natural and behavioral sciences. The T.B. Walker Chair in the Natural and Behavioral Sciences will honor the work of an outstanding professor in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering-physics, mathematics or Read More →
CKE unwraps Shanghai location
Carpinteria-based CKE Restaurants announced the opening of its first Carl’s Jr. restaurant in Shanghai, China, marking the first of more than 100 Carl’s Jr. units planned in the municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu over the next eight years. CKE said its entry into China is part of Read More →
The next frontier
California, the largest space enterprise state in the nation, has brought countless of innovations to the industry, from developing and designing the International Space Station and Apollo programs, to creating the the nation’s first launch vehicles and the world’s first communication satellite. And now, a $220 million space center to be built next to Vandenberg Read More →
Employee arrested on suspicion of stealing almost $1M
A Ventura County woman has been arrested on charges of stealing more than $950,000 from Conejo Valley Women’s Group. Elizabeth Ann Jones, a 43-year-old Newbury Park resident, was arrested on Sept. 10 on suspicion of grand theft, forgery, computer fraud and aggravated white collar crime enhancement following an investigation by the Ventura County Sherrif’s Department. Read More →
Pacific Capital faces shareholder lawsuit
A New York law firm is fishing for clients in a shareholder class-action suit it filed against Pacific Capital Bancorp. Stull, Stull & Brody filed a complaint in federal court in Los Angeles on Sept. 9 seeking to speak on behalf of Pacific Capital Bancorp’s common stockholders from April 30 to July 30. Pacific Capital Read More →
