By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
Ventura County is blessed with a tremendous agricultural bounty. The area’s fields, ranches and farms cover thousands of acres, producing numerous fruits, vegetables, flowers and more. An industry that generates over $1 billion in revenue...
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
On April 1, 2022 — April Fool’s Day — a trio of winemakers welcomed the public in to their brand-new tasting room, where they uncorked their first vintage. Aptly named Trois le Fou, which roughly...
Jeff Hull, the owner, designer and driving force behind Jeff Hull Custom Boats in Ventura, is as relentless as the waves his custom boats are designed to ride. Every boat-building project he takes on is made to order, and...
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
Talking with Byrds co-founder, country rock legend and musician
extraordinaire Chris Hillman.
Chris Hillman is a legend in his own time. The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist — a master of guitar, bass and mandolin — has...
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
Stephen Bates is perhaps best known as an expert on free speech, censorship and media politics. The graduate of Harvard Law School is a professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Nevada,...
by Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
Food Share of Ventura County fulfills a vital purpose: Providing food to the many people in the area who need it. That amounts to hundreds of thousands of Ventura County residents since its inception in...
Alan Salazar discusses his Native ancestry, discovering lost knowledge and teaching tomol craftsmanship to a new generation of Chumash.
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
For 25 years, Alan Salazar — storyteller, Native educator and tribal elder in the Fernandeño Tataviam Band...
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
Photos by Luis Chavez
Mike Adams of Santa Paula Craftsman did something many of us only dream about: He left his corporate job to follow his creative passion. The one-time database administrator and private investigator exchanged...
By Alex Wilson
Sarah Oberman isn’t exaggerating when she says she was born to be in the aviation business.
Her first official job when she was just 12 years old was washing airplanes at Channel Islands Aviation, a business at Camarillo...
by Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
When Michael Christie joined New West Symphony as music director in 2019, he brought with him a Grammy Award, a career that spanned the globe from Minnesota to Australia, and more than two decades of...
