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This Haggen store in Santa Barbara is among 23 that are closing in the Tri-Counties.

| Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

Bankruptcy court OKs sale of Haggen stores in Tri-Counties

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  Haggen will be able to sell all of its stores in California, Arizona and Nevada, including 36 to Smart & Final and Gelson’s Markets, a Delaware bankruptcy court ruled. Smart & Final and Gelson’s got the first pick of the 127 shuttering Haggen stores. Commerce-based grocer Smart & Final signed a deal for 28 Read More →

| Monday, October 19th, 2015

San Luis Obispo’s Tom Adamski dies of cancer

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Tom Adamski of San Luis Obispo, who was chief executive officer of Publicis Groupe’s Razorfish Global network, died after a battle with cancer. He was 43 years old. Adamski was an advertising account executive at Web Associates in Santa Barbara, which later became Level Studios and relocated to San Luis Obispo. He served as CEO Read More →

| Monday, October 19th, 2015

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo team takes third at solar decathlon

Higher Education, Latest news, Technology

A team from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo placed third at the U.S. Department of Energy’s biennial solar decathlon in Irvine on Oct. 17. For the competition, about 100 Cal Poly students designed and built a house that was powered only by solar energy. The Department of Energy held the competition to accelerate the adoption Read More →

| Wednesday, October 14th, 2015

Citizens Business Bank acquiring County Commerce Bank

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news, Top Stories

Ontario-based Citizens Business Bank will acquire Oxnard-based County Commerce Bank in a cash and stock deal announced Oct. 14. The deal will strengthen Citizens’ commercial banking presence in Ventura County and CCB will have more lending power, the companies said in a news release. In exchange for all of CCB’s common stock and options, Citizens Read More →

| Wednesday, October 14th, 2015

Appfolio expanding in Goleta

Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies

Appfolio is expanding in Goleta. Appfolio will lease an additional 7,855 square feet of space at its office at 50 Castilian Drive in Goleta, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 14. The new space will increase the amount of space Appfolio leases from Nassau Land Company to 26,490 square Read More →

| Tuesday, October 13th, 2015

Kythera laying off 117 employees in Westlake Village

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies

Kythera Biopharmaceuticals is permanently laying off 117 employees at its Westlake Village offices, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The layoffs come as no surprise and appear to be part of Kythera’s merger with Dublin-based Allergan. On June 17, Allergan announced that it would buy Kythera for $2.1 billion. The Read More →

| Monday, October 12th, 2015

Cochran resigns from Bacara Resort & Spa in Goleta

Latest news, Tourism

Kathleen Cochran is resigning her position at the Bacara Resort & Spa in Goleta. The general manager is leaving the coastal hotel after more than four years at the helm for family reasons. Shashi Poudyal, who previously headed the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa, is Bacara’s new general manager. “It was probably one of Read More →