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| Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Ventura apartments sell for $82M

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A 316-unit apartment complex in Ventura has changed hands for $82 million, one of the largest such deals in recent years. San Mateo-based private real estate investment management firm JB Matteson purchased the luxury Vanoni Ranch Apartments at 10676 Veronica Lane in Ventura. The seller was undisclosed. The apartment complex consists of 27 two-story buildings Read More →

| Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

Santa Barbara Foundation hands out honors

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Santa Barbara County Schools Superintendent Bill Cirone and former KEYT Channel 3 owner Anne Smith Towbes shared the Santa Barbara Foundation’s 71st Man and Woman of the Year honors. Smith Towbes is the widow of the late Bob Smith, longtime owner of KEYT. Now married to Montecito Bank & Trust owner Mike Towbes, she was Read More →

| Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

Chumash withdraw land plans; won’t affect Camp 4

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The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians have withdrawn a land plan that the tribe’s opponents feared would make it easier for the tribe to add land into its reservation. The tribe has withdrawn its so-called Tribal Consolidation and Acquisition plan, which outlines more than 11,000 acres outside the tribe’s current reservation to which it Read More →

| Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

Brown taps Ventura County as one of state’s ‘innovation hubs’

East Ventura County, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County

Gov. Jerry Brown has named Ventura and Kern counties among four newly-established innovation hubs designed to spur job growth. The so-called Kern-Ventura i-Hub is designed to foster the growth of high-tech companies in aerospace, energy and other fields and is part of the California iDEA Hub. It will be based in Ridgecrest, in Kern County Read More →

| Friday, October 4th, 2013

Santa Barbara County selects new CEO

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Santa Barbara County has reached a tentative deal to hire a new CEO. The Board of Supervisors said it has selected Mona Miyasato, the former chief assistant county administrator since 2008 of Marin County in the Bay Area. Miyasato would succeed Chandra Wallar, who came from San Diego County and has served as county CEO Read More →

| Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

Sansum Diabetes Research Institute gets $2.3M grant

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Nonprofits

Sansum Diabetes Research Institute in Santa Barbara has received a $2.25 million federal grant for diabetes research. The three-year funding comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is for Sansum to continue its work on diabetes, endocrinology and metabolic research. Sansum’s research focuses specifically on Type 1 diabetes and the creation Read More →

| Friday, September 27th, 2013

Port extends banana contract

Latest news, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County

The Port of Hueneme has secured a five-year extension of its contract with Del Monte Fresh produce, the port’s biggest banana customer. Bananas are the port’s largest import, accounting for about 46 percent of its overall import business by revenue ton, a unit of measure devised to equalize shipments of disparate products. The banana firm Read More →