2007-04-06

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Acorn online content now offered free

'Paywall' removed

The new millennium has been a transformative time for newspaper publishing.

Changing reader habits and the advent of new technology have placed big demands on companies in the print news business.

The Acorn and its parent company, Times Media Group, understand that their biggest responsibility is not only the delivery of credible, relevant information in a timely fashion, but making sure residents have easy access to the publication when stories become available.

That’s why we’re super excited about the news being shared today.

Following a five-year stretch in which Acorn readers were given the option of purchasing online subscriptions to the paper, that so-called “paywall” is coming down.

“Mr. Publisher, tear down this wall,” the late President Ronald Reagan might have once said.

And so we did.

Starting immediately, all online content from our five Acorn publications will be available at no charge to the reader, meaning a paid subscription is no longer required to click and read articles. The weekly Acorn has always been delivered to your driveway at no cost—that more than 40-year tradition will continue—and from now on The Acorn on the internet will be free as well.

Why the change?

The Acorn is your community newspaper, and we want to make sure it stays that way. We believe it’s important that residents feel a connection to the stories we write and also learn about the businesses that advertise in their community. The absence of a paywall is the best way to ensure this free-flow of information remains.

We also invite readers to sign up for the new, easy-to-read Acorn newspaper e-edition delivered weekly to your e-mail. Viewed on mobile, desktop or laptop, the pages are super easy to navigate and, free, just like the print paper.

Local journalism is first gear in the engine that drives America’s free press, and a free press it shall be.

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Program makes big difference in children’s lives



Rick Garibay couldn’t find a reason to say no when Lucy Castro, a caseworker with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County, asked him if he’d like to mentor a young boy. Castro was looking for garlic in the grocery store that day in 2006 but ended up finding a lot more after striking up a conversation with produce manager […]

Camarillo looking to repeat

Boys' volleyball team takes aim at PVL championship

A year after winning the Pacific View League championship, the boys’ volleyball team at Camarillo High is ready to make another run at the title. Last season the Scorpions didn’t lose a game until bowing out in the second round of the CIF -Southern Section Division III playoffs to San Gabriel High. This year ACHS will look to go even […]

RMHS boys’ tennis team mowing down the competition

Spartans getting no love from the pollsters

Despite being undefeated this season heading into Thursday’s match against Camarillo High, the Rio Mesa boys’ tennis team is still flying under the radar in terms of rankings and recognition. And that’s just the way head coach Steve Worthington likes it. The Spartans’ record stood at 12-0 overall before playing ACHS. Rio Mesa was 6-0 in the Pacific View League. […]

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Camarillo Due to continued requests by our readers, the Sheriff’s Blotter will now include arrests made by the Camarillo Police Department. A resident of the 2600 block of East Ponderosa Drive was scammed out of more than $6,000 between March 3 and 14 by con artists who claimed the woman had won an Ecuadorean lottery. Someone unsuccessfully tried to steal […]

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We all live downstream

We all live downstream “Some believe all that their parents, tutors and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates because they are born heirs to them.”- – Alan W. Watts Recently, I saw a bumper sticker that read “We All Live Downstream.” My first response was that it seemed an accurate […]

Easter services in Camarillo



Camarillo United Methodist Church will host Easter worship services at 9 and 10:30 a.m. Sun., April 8 at 291 Anacapa Drive. The church youth group will serve an Easter breakfast for $5 in Brooks Hall from 7:30 to 11 a.m. For more information, call the church office at (805) 482-4312 or visit www.cam-umc.org. Camarillo Community Church invites the public to […]