Street smarts: Cal Poly SLO to integrate CSU Maritime Academy
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Montecito Bank & Trust doles out $1M in community grants
Montecito Bank & Trust started the giving season in style as the financial institution hosted its 22nd annual Community Dividends Luncheon on Nov. 25, the Monday before Thanksgiving, and awarded 195 local nonprofits a total of $1 million. Montecito Bank, the oldest and largest locally owned community bank in the Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, noted Read More →
Central Coast unemployment rate largely unaffected in October
After finally seeing the unemployment rate dip in the month of September, the unemployment rate didn’t see much change in the 30 days after, according to the latest data from the California Employment Development Department. Released Nov. 15, the unemployment rate of the tri-counties was at 4.36% for the month of October, up very slightly from an unemployment rate Read More →
Local shops prep for Small Business Saturday, holiday season
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Mountain Fire losses mount; recovery begins
“In the end, it’s just a house,” Jim Blois, CEO of Blois Construction in Oxnard, said. Blois’s home in Camarillo Heights was one of, at last count, nearly 220 structures destroyed in the Mountain Fire which erupted Nov. 6 in the unincorporated Somis area northeast of Camarillo. Fueled by fierce Santa Ana winds, the fire Read More →
Dubroff: Behind the daunting economics of disaster recovery
The Mountain Fire struck Ventura County just one month shy of seven years after the Thomas Fire devastated a 70-mile front that stretched from Fillmore to Goleta. Five days later as the Business Times went to press, some 300 structures suffered damage, hundreds of people remained inside evacuation areas and the long, slow effort of Read More →
Street smarts: Ojai Valley Inn to temporarily close in January
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