Crafting a stronger community
2025年1月10日 · CREATIVITY GALORE— Adults and kids alike put their creativity to work during the Yarrow Family YMCA Family Winter Craft event Dec. 27 in Westlake Village. Above, Ryan Grabow, family coordinator for the Yarrow Y, helps 2-year-old Josie Carroll with her paper firework craft. Photos by MICHAEL COONS Acorn Newspapers Ana Ghisellini, her 4 …
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New chapter in life of Pulitzer-winning journalist. By Eamon Murphy eamon@theacorn.com | January 24, 2025. A recent interview with Howard Rosenberg—Agoura Hills resident, longtime television critic for the Los Angeles Times, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and currently a fiction writer—began with the subject interviewing...
Oak Park governance on ballot - theacorn.com
2024年9月27日 · As an unincorporated area in eastern Ventura County, Oak Park has no city council that governs it. But the community does have a municipal advisory council (MAC) to represent its interests to the county Board of Supervisors. The Oak Park MAC is a five-member body with designated liaisons for the school district, parks and recreation,
Oaks mall being sold - theacorn.com
RETAIL REDO—Amid today’s challenging brick-and-mortar retail environment, The Oaks mall, above, has struggled to find its footing. BECCA WHITNALL/Acorn Newspapers Real estate investment trust Macerich, which has owned the The Oaks for more than two decades, has agreed to sell the popular Thousand Oaks mall. The buyer is Stockdale Capital Partners, which will be purchasing
Sound Man - theacorn.com
“I’ve lived here for 26 years,” said Agoura Hills resident Don Sylvester, “and I know”—he paused to estimate—“65 people. His wife, popular city council member and new mayor Penny Sylvester, knows all but 65 people, the husband quipped.. Don Sylvester said he said will go to the grocery store in town with his wife to buy bananas and emerge an hour later, having been stopped so ...
Oak Park kicks off 2024 academic year - theacorn.com
GOODWILL AMBASSADORS—Girls from the Medea Creek Middle School Associated Student Body greet fellow students with friendly signs as kids returned to all Oak Park campuses Aug. 7 for the start of the school year. Las Virgenes returns Aug. 21. MICHAEL COONS/Acorn Newspapers It’s a new school year—yes, already— and, among other changes, a …
Gonna be a Showdown - theacorn.com
2024年12月20日 · STAGE PRESENCE— Lead singer and guitarist Esme Holl on stage with the winning band Secret Monument during the Dec. 6 Agoura High School Battle of the Bands competition. Photos by MICHAEL COONS Acorn Newspapers It got loud at Agoura High’s Performing Arts Education Center on the evening of Dec. 6, as student rock groups showcased
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Most expensive fire in U.S. history
WIND DAMAGE—A tree fell across Canwood Street in Agoura Hills Jan. 8, damaging the power line above it and causing further electrical disruption. JOHN LOESING Acorn Newspapers With the region still catching its breath from the destructive Mountain and Franklin fires of November and December, extraordinarily severe
More local ties revealed in accused molester case
David Braff NP Officials have confirmed that the Thousand Oaks man charged with molesting eight children at the Santa Paula school where he worked was also previously employed at Conejo Valley Unified School District, Conejo Valley Recreation and Park District and Moorpark Unified School District. David Lane Braff Jr. was scheduled for arraignment Dec. 20