Basic Impact
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, May 30th, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Basic Impact
Directly and indirectly providing for more than 8,200 jobs, or 4.6 percent of all jobs in the county, the base produced about $1.2 billion in goods and services in 2006, the study estimated. On May 30, the Naval Base Ventura County 2006 Economic Impact Study was set to be released at the Navy, Business and Read More →
Chilling Effect
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, May 23rd, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Chilling Effect
An unusually chilly weekend in late April proved devastating for some Santa Barbara County vineyards, with reported losses of thousands of tons of grapes to freezing temperatures. The Santa Ynez Valley, which is home to many of the county’s largest and most notable vineyards, experienced frost in elevations as high as 1,300 feet – Read More →
Strawberry Time
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, May 9th, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Strawberry Time
What started 25 years ago as a tribute to Ventura County More than 70,000 people are expected at the 25th Anniversary California Strawberry Festival on May 17 and 18 at Strawberry Meadows of College Park, 3250 S. Rose Ave., Oxnard, where organizers estimate 1.6 million of the bright-red berries will be devoured.
Building science – Allan Hancock trains for future
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Building science – Allan Hancock trains for future
The new $21 million science building at Allan HancockCollege in Santa Maria means gleaming laboratories and a lot more spacefor equipment, legs and elbows. But to physics students, it also meansmore maneuvering room to dodge flying objects. “With projectile experiments, you used to get hit by a lot of steelbearings,” said John Benedetti, a Read More →
