Street smarts: Beware of skimmer scams at area gas stations
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Street smarts: Jordano shares 108-year-old history at Rotary Club meeting
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2023 Spirit of Small Business Awards winners
The Pacific Coast Business Times created the Spirit of Small Business Awards in 2003 to honor small business leaders along the Central Coast. We partnered with the U.S. Small Business Administration to show off the region’s best and brightest, and over the years, we’ve given out 174 awards to small business advocates, pioneers, families and Read More →
Street smarts: Santa Barbara Museum of Art appoints new director
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Oxnard distillery’s vodka wins top award again
Founder and CEO of Oxnard-based Sespe Creek Distillery, Alfred English, alongside his team, had one goal in mind when they were setting out to make their own vodka — to be different. “At the time, everyone believed all vodkas tasted the same, and sadly for vodka, they weren’t wrong,” English told the Business Times via Read More →
Dreams from my father: Fig Mountain navigates pandemic and stays true to roots
Editor’s note: This story is the final in a series meant to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Spirit of Small Business Awards, presented by the Business Times and the Small Business Administration. This story features a previous Spirit of Small Business winner. As a little boy in Los Olivos, Jaime Dietenhofer beamed each day he Read More →
Longtime Navy veteran purchases Ventura County defense company
After several decades in the Navy and the defense sector, longtime Camarillo resident Scott Kolsow, in 2021, felt the time was right to take his career to the next level. “Loved my 20 years in the Navy,” Koslow, 52, told the Business Times on June 20. “But I always had an entrepreneurial drive, so that Read More →
