All schools: Solar tech- nology, $1 million; phasing out portables, $600,000; Landscaping with drought- tolerant plants; $1.1 million. More...

A Massachusetts teenager with inoperable brain cancer may have lived on the other side of the coun- try, but Conejo Valley residents and business owners still did what they could to help the boy's uninsured family. In the end, nothing could save Logan Seifert, 17. He died Sept. 9 in a Pittsburg More...

THURS., SEPT. 28 Chamber Mixes It Up Agoura/Oak Park/Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce hosts mixer at 5:30 p.m. at Keyboard Concepts, 104 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thou- sand Oaks. Food catered by Cisco's, door prizes, drawing. (818) 889-3150 More...

If anybody knew the recipe for good, plain old barbecue, it was the late Willy Harris. More...

Students will soon pay more for cafeteria food in Oak Park schools. The Oak Park Unified School District Board of Education unanimously ap- proved the increase last week. It becomes effective Oct. 16. More...

The public is invited to join a monthly "Tennis Anyone?" mixer at the Pacific Tennis Club at Westlake Village Inn, 4700 Lakeview Canyon Road in Westlake Village. More...

The 35th annual Foxfield Medal Finals is scheduled for Sat. Oct. 7 at Foxfield, 1250 E. Potrero Road, Westlake Village. This is one of the west coast's foremost equestrian jumping events with entrants from all over the west- ern states. More...

Agoura Hills A thief stole a $2,000 laptop computer and a motion detector and alarm control panel worth $600 from a vehicle parked on Agoura Road Sept. 20. More...

Memories of Sept. 11, 2001 re- cently resurfaced on its fifth anni- versary. The tragedy initially caused some suspicion about Islam, but Muslims in Conejo Valley said they have found that for them, not much has changed. More...

KEEPING THE BEAT- From left, Lily Apar, Bianca Zucchellini, and Hannah Balke, all Oak Park residents and 8 years old, march to their own drumbeat at Willow Elementary School while waiting for their parents to sign them up for YMCA activities. This year more than 300 families enrolled-more than doubl More...

The annual Valley Artists Studio Tour, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat. and Sun., Oct. 14 and 15, will showcase the art- works of 45 fine artists working in a variety of media. The event is sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Arts Council. More...

Last week The Acorn published a letter from Councilwoman Phillipa Klessig headlined "City gives take on Lowe's." Clearly, she is entitled to her perspective, but by no means does her perspective represent "the city's," as the piece claims, nor is it appropriate to say that it represents the More...

The last great World War I fly- ing adventure is almost 70 years old. I suspect that few folks who aren't insomniacs have seen "The Dawn Patrol," a 1938 drama with Errol Flynn and David Niven. Back in '38 the winds of war were sweeping across the Atlantic and "Dawn Patrol" embraced a cau- tio More...

The Nov. 7 elections aren't far off and voters are feeling the drumbeat of the campaign. Local elections will determine the outcome of Oak Park's school bond measure and the fate of the Lowe's in Westlake Village. On both sides, the noise is making it difficult to separate fact from fiction More...