Welcome once again to The Independent’s listing of stock quotes from publicly traded companies either based in Santa Barbara or conducting a significant portion of their business here. The quotes are updated on Fridays, and the rise or fall in the price is compared to the previous week. If readers are aware of other corporations that should be listed here, please let us know.
On Tuesday the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted to sign a cooperation agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Two 10-unit apartment buildings in Isla Vista have been secured for affordable housing.
The Biker calls from overseas to say “I love you,” and Chassy’s response is less than reciprocative.
Warren Fuller was a passenger in a car that crashed into a house on Cliff Drive.
The Santa Barbara-based company will now be selling its music systems in the nation-wide chain.
Wait and see. That’s what Chief Executive Officer Mike Brown recommended the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors do regarding the appropriation of money for numerous expansions of county programs.
Tentative plans to put a luxury home longer than a football field on top of a ridge at the southern gateway to the Gaviota Coast came to a grinding-though perhaps temporary-halt this week. For nearly three hours on Tuesday, June 19, Santa Barbara County supervisors struggled to make sense of an occasionally heated three-way version of “he said/she said” among their own staff, the advocates of the 13,333-square-foot Ballantyne home, and those opposed to the construction of the massive single-family home.
Former Santa Barbara News-Press editor Jerry Roberts is still stunned. A benefit party held in his honor last Saturday night at the Hope Ranch home of former county supervisor Susan Rose raised $135,000 to help him wage his legal battle against News-Press owner Wendy McCaw, his former boss and current nemesis.
While the rest of the UCSB men’s soccer team was fted by President Bush in a June 18 White House ceremony honoring its undefeated championship season, star player Eric Frimpong was sitting in Santa Barbara County Superior Court facing rape charges. During a preliminary hearing, Deputy District Attorney Mary Barron called two sheriff’s investigators to the stand to describe their interviews with Frimpong’s accusers.
