State budget will hit hard public schools
By John Loesing
Acorn Staff Writer
      Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) will have to scramble to assume its share of the proposed $843.5 million in education budget cuts proposed recently by Gov.
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Hanukkah to begin Sunday
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      PRACTICING—Adam Spector, 9, left, Hannah Laskow, 5, and Rabbi Manachen Weiss demonstrate the lighting of the menorah for Hanukkah at the Chabad of the Conejo in Agoura Hills.
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Calabasas hears feedback on civic center
By Gregory Koteles
Special to The Acorn
      The end of the beginning to construct a new civic center in Calabasas may be on the horizon. A joint meeting of the city council and planning commission convened last week to begin sorting out details of the beleaguered, long-anticipated project.
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Agoura Hills City Council reorganizes
By John Loesing
Acorn Staff Writer
      Longtime incumbent Denis Weber earned another term as mayor of Agoura Hills during Monday’s city council reorganization ceremony. Weber, who previously announced he wouldn’t seek reelection when his city council term ends in 2005, probably will be serving as mayor for the last time.
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Investigation continues on sewage spill
      A significant amount of sewage overflowed in Westlake Village Tues., Nov. 27 when a sewer line running parallel to the 101 Freeway became blocked. The cause was building materials such as bricks and rock that must have been pulled downstream with the sewage until it built up and eventually clogged a pipeline, creating an overflow. The blockage occurred below ground behind the new Opus West building on Agoura Road between Lindero Canyon and Reyes Adobe roads.
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