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By Marissa Nall / Friday, January 13th, 2017 / Agribusiness, Latest news / Comments Off on Asian beetle threatens avocado trees in Ventura County
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, January 13th, 2017 / Columns, Latest news / Comments Off on Dubroff: Time has come for Santa Barbara to reinvent retail experience
The imminent departure of Macy’s from Santa Barbara’s Paseo Nuevo mall has triggered a round of hand wringing about the future of State Street, the region’s crown jewel of retailing. Macy’s closing was not totally unexpected; the chain is in trouble and having two stores on the South Coast made little sense. But it comes Read More →
By Staff Report / Thursday, January 12th, 2017 / Latest news, Law & Goverment / Comments Off on Bookkeeper in Santa Maria gets year in jail for embezzlement
A former employee of Abacus Premier Property Management in Santa Maria was sentenced to a year in jail for embezzling $163,750 from her former employer, Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley announced on Jan. 11. The former Abacus bookkeeper, Melissa Reynoso, pled to one count of grand theft by embezzlement and one count of Read More →
By Staff Report / Thursday, January 12th, 2017 / Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on Camarillo’s Micronor to debut signal conditioner at trade show
Camarillo-based Micronor will debut a new single channel signal conditioner created in collaboration with German company Optocon AG, at the SPIE Photonics West from Jan. 28-Feb 2. The product, designated FOTEMP1-OEM-MNT, integrates fiber optic temperature sensing into industrial control systems, medical instrumentation or other designs, to provide temperature monitoring in challenging environments. The technology could Read More →
By Staff Report / Thursday, January 12th, 2017 / Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on Nakamura’s Soraa lights up museum in Detroit
The Detroit Institute of the Arts opened its Arts of the Middle East Gallery, lit by full visible spectrum LED lamps from Soraa. Soraa’s GaN on GaN LED technology uses the widest range of visible color, without ultraviolet or infrared radiation that can fade or harm the art and artifacts, the company said in the announcement. Read More →
After serving as interim city manager for Thousand Oaks since July 5, 2016, Andrew Powers was brought on permanently Jan. 10 in a special meeting of the Thousand Oaks City Council. Powers had previously served as assistant city manager and in community and media relations roles for Ventura and Raleigh, N.C. He received his bachelor’s Read More →