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Commission approves ‘everything housing’ report


Miracle Field clears major hurdle


Scars of 9/11 remain for county families


Community center kitchen to get first major makeover…


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Neighbors

Women’s Interfaith Network works to make life easier for refugees

Women’s Interfaith Network works to make life easier for refugees

By Makena Huey
makena@theacorn.com
| September 10, 2021

Julianna Lorenzen was in fifth grade at Lorne Fundamental Magnet School in Northridge when she met Huvishka—a boy who had to flee Afghanistan with his family. To her classmates he...

Precautions taken as CSUCI students return to campus

Precautions taken as CSUCI students return to campus

By Alex Wilson
alex@theacorn.com
| September 3, 2021

Christian Potts transferred to California State University Channel Islands for the 2020-21 school year but never stepped on campus. The 22-year-old senior spent his first year at CSUCI virtually, studying...

Retiring educator: ‘I’m already missing it’

Retiring educator: ‘I’m already missing it’

By Alex Wilson
alex@theacorn.com
| August 27, 2021

Cathy Channels spent most of her life enjoying the loving hugs of the countless children she’s taught over the years. But the hugs won’t stop even though she recently retired...

A golden opportunity

A golden opportunity

Moorpark native wins gold in Tokyo

By Makena Huey
makena@theacorn.com
| August 20, 2021

Amanda Longan stood atop the podium with her right hand over her heart and her left clutching a bouquet of flowers as she proudly sang the national anthem inside the...

Two principals living under one roof

Two principals living under one roof

Bakoo to lead Tierra Linda

By Alex Wilson
alex@theacorn.com
| August 20, 2021

Fayanne Bakoo and her family had wanted to move to Ventura County from Santa Clarita for years. Their dream came true when she and her husband, Zaid, were both hired...

Family

Park study aims to head off lawsuits

Park study aims to head off lawsuits

By Alex Wilson
alex@theacorn.com
| September 10, 2021

The Pleasant Valley Recreation and Park District board has voted to fund a study on how well district facilities conform...

It’s back! The Acorn’s writing contest returns

It’s back! The Acorn’s writing contest returns

| September 10, 2021

Entries are being accepted in the 2021 Fiction in a Nutshell competition, which calls for stories of 100 words or...

Investment club will talk stocks at lunch

Investment club will talk stocks at lunch

| September 10, 2021

The Channel Islands chapter of Better Investing Model Club will meet in person for lunch on the third Wednesday of...

Health

New book brings hope to those struggling with mental health

New book brings hope to those struggling with mental health

By Alex Wilson
alex@theacorn.com
| September 10, 2021

Laurie Singer was a young mother raising two children under 3 years old when she endured a parent’s worst nightmare. It was 1987, and she was living in Oxnard with her husband, Bob Singer, while working at a Ralphs grocery...

Clergy offer hope for hospital staff during difficult times

Clergy offer hope for hospital staff during difficult times

By Dawn Megli
dawn@theacorn.com
| September 3, 2021

Instead of dropping their kids off on the first day of school, some young parents spent the last weeks of August in the ICU. The medical staff at Los Robles Regional Medical Center are once again fighting to save sick...

State department of public health confirms West Nile in Simi

State department of public health confirms West Nile in Simi

wpeditor | September 3, 2021

The Ventura County Environmental Health Division received confirmation Aug. 26 from the California Department of Public Health that a bird collected during the third week of August from the Simi Valley area tested positive for West Nile virus. It was...

Hospital visitors adjust to COVID policy

Hospital visitors adjust to COVID policy

By Alex Wilson
alex@theacorn.com
| August 27, 2021

A recent requirement that hospital visitors be vaccinated against COVID or have a negative test within 72 hours has not gotten pushback from visitors to Ventura County hospitals, medical officials said. The statewide order went into effect Aug. 11. Daphne...

Invasive, virus-carrying mosquito comes to county

Invasive, virus-carrying mosquito comes to county

| August 20, 2021

The Ventura County Environmental Health Division has detected the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito in Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village since September 2020. Aedes aegypti is not native to Ventura County. It is a small, aggressive day-biting mosquito that...

Sports

Scorpions, Spartans watch for falling objects

Scorpions, Spartans watch for falling objects

By Eliav Appelbaum
eliav@theacorn.com
| September 10, 2021

In football, there’s the forward pass, the backward pass, the...

THE ACORN’S POWER POLL

THE ACORN’S POWER POLL

ops@our-hometown.com | September 10, 2021

1 Simi Valley (3-0) The area’s most complete football team...

LAST WEEK’S TOP PERFORMERS

LAST WEEK’S TOP PERFORMERS

wpeditor | September 10, 2021

Louis Brown, LB, Oak Park: The Sack Master General registered...

Schools

Counselors to help students plan for life after high school

Counselors to help students plan for life after high school

By Alex Wilson
alex@theacorn.com
| September 10, 2021

Community colleges seek to find, delete fraudulent applications

Community colleges seek to find, delete fraudulent applications

By Makena Huey
makena@theacorn.com
| September 10, 2021

Oxnard Union’s new dress code aims to promote inclusion

Oxnard Union’s new dress code aims to promote inclusion

By Alex Wilson
alex@theacorn.com
| September 3, 2021

Student safety goal of vaccine mandate

Student safety goal of vaccine mandate

By Makena Huey
makena@theacorn.com
| September 3, 2021

Home away from home

Home away from home

wpeditor | August 27, 2021

Grade-change bill required fast action by students

Grade-change bill required fast action by students

By Makena Huey
makena@theacorn.com
| August 27, 2021

On the Town

Art show takes a village

Art show takes a village

wpeditor | September 10, 2021

RECEPTION—Above, Camarillo resident Fumiko Fisher has her picture taken next to one of her paintings in the Leisure Village Fall...

Boz Scaggs brings ‘Out of the Blues’ to T.O.

Boz Scaggs brings ‘Out of the Blues’ to T.O.

| September 3, 2021

Grammy Award-winning musician Boz Scaggs, known for hits like “Lowdown” and “Lido Shuffle,” brings his “Out of the Blues Tour”...

Conejo Players to perform ‘Almost, Maine’

Conejo Players to perform ‘Almost, Maine’

wpeditor | September 3, 2021

Conejo Players will present the drama “Almost, Maine” to an in-person audience from Sept. 17 through Oct. 3 at the...

Live comedy returns to Camarillo

Live comedy returns to Camarillo

wpeditor | August 27, 2021

Free Range Comedy, a live improv comedy show, has returned to Camarillo. The comedy troupe’s next show is at 7:30...

Royally eclectic slate of shows

Royally eclectic slate of shows

| August 27, 2021

In these pandemic times, Cash is king. Actually, make that queen. Rosanne Cash, daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash, is...

Faith

Holy Scriptures

Holy Scriptures

| September 10, 2021

A TIME TO DANCE—Rabbi Aryeh Lang, who leads the Chabad of Camarillo, carries the Nissim family Torah in an outdoor procession during a dedication ceremony Aug. 22 at the Chabad of Newbury Park. The procession took place immediately after the...

Chabad offers a variety of Yom Kippur services

| September 10, 2021

The Yom Kippur services with Chabad of the Conejo are open to all Jews, affiliated or not, observant or nonobservant. Services will begin with the Kol Nidre at 6:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 15 and continue at 9:30 a.m. Thurs., Sept....

Church examines homelessness

| September 10, 2021

United Methodist Church Westlake Village will hold a four-part study of homelessness featuring the book “Evicted” at 7 p.m. Mon., Sept. 13, 20, 27 and Oct. 4 on Zoom. Church member and Many Mansions president Rick Schroeder will lead the...

Church invites community to block party

Church invites community to block party

| August 27, 2021

BEAUTIFUL DAY TO GATHER—Above, Xavier Dubose, 6, has his face painted during the Summer Festival and Block Party at First Baptist Church of Camarillo on Aug. 21. At top, the Rev. Glenn Bezerra, the church’s senior pastor, speaks to visitors...

Business

Longtime Reagan Foundation executive director to retire

Longtime Reagan Foundation executive director to retire

Library operates on two coasts

By Melissa Simon
melissa@theacorn.com
| September 10, 2021

John Heubusch’s foray into politics and public service was inspired by Ronald Reagan, so when he got a call from Nancy Reagan asking him to head the foundation that oversees...

Frustration mounts as unemployment benefits come to an end

Frustration mounts as unemployment benefits come to an end

By Makena Huey
makena@theacorn.com
| September 3, 2021

Leeann Mesa filed for unemployment benefits in December, after she had to quit her job to care for her second foster child. The benefits helped the Moorpark resident and mother...

College chancellor announces retirement

College chancellor announces retirement

He led district during pandemic

By Makena Huey
makena@theacorn.com
| August 27, 2021

Greg Gillespie has spent nearly three decades building relationships with students, educators and partners in the community college system. Now he wants to focus on his family. After serving as...

All aboard weekend trains

All aboard weekend trains

By Makena Huey | August 20, 2021

makena@theacorn.com Residents and tourists alike can now explore more of Ventura County on the weekend in an affordable, safe and eco-friendly way with Metrolink’s newly expanded Saturday service. On Aug....

Workforce board names chair, vice chair

| August 20, 2021

The Workforce Development Board of Ventura County recently elected Peter Zierhut as chair and Stephen Yeoh as vice chair. Zierhut is vice president of outside operations at Haas Automation Inc.,...

Crime

SHERIFF’S BLOTTER

wpeditor | September 10, 2021

Letters

Remember to vote by Sept. 14

| September 10, 2021

I would like to remind readers that it is imperative...

Recall is a ploy to steal election

| September 10, 2021

I am worried about democracy in the United States. I...

Vote no on power grab

| September 10, 2021

If you’re on the fence about how to vote in...

Whose rights matter more?

| September 10, 2021

In her Sept. 3 letter, Sylvia Rodarte misses the contradiction...

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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Museum of Art’s final building slated for demolition crumbled to the ground in late September 2020, but controversy surrounding the museum’s $650-million project continues to cast a shadow over the construction site.
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Visitors to Arneill Ranch Park will one day stroll along a fitness trail featuring new drought-tolerant landscaping which will be unlike anything built before at a Camarillo park.
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