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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Thousand Oaks makes interim city manager permanent
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 →
Sonos founder John MacFarlane stepping down
John MacFarlane announced Jan. 10 that he would be stepping down as CEO of the Santa Barbara audio company he founded and passing leadership of Sonos to chief operations officer Patrick Spence. “Patrick demonstrated his leadership most recently with Sonos’ success during the holiday period, but more importantly, there isn’t a person who better embodies Read More →
Limoneira reports strong revenue growth
Santa Paula agribusiness Limoneira reported increased revenues for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2016, exceeding its guidance with an operating income of $9.2 million. Net income applicable to common stock, after preferred dividends, was $7.4 million for the year, or 52 cents per common share, up from $6.4 million in 2015. The company had announced expectations of operating Read More →
