The Las Virgenes Unified School District Board of Education reorganized Dec. 13, welcoming Terilyn Finders as president. Finders replaces Cindy Iser, whose one-year term as president expired. Board member Pat Schulz will serve as vice president, and Gordon Whitehead as clerk. More...

Each holiday season the employees of Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center, under the direction of hospital chaplain, the Rev. Michael McDonald, donate thousands of dollars worth of toys, clothes and food items and play Santa to special families. This year, the families include... More...

THURS., DEC. 21 Bring Toys To Improv Agoura High School’s Comedy Sportz hosts family-friendly improv benefit for Toys for Tots, G Bldg., 28545 Driver Ave. Junior varsity team 6 p.m., varsity team 7 p.m. Musical entertainment at halftime. Refreshments, souvenirs for sale. $5 genera... More...

REMEMBRANCE —More than 400 attended Calamigos Ranch for the Agoura/Oak Park/ Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce reception and tribute to Patricia Soteras, the late executive director of the Chamber. More...

SWEET TOOTH— Red Oak Elementary School second-grade student Melissa Hoffman watches Red Oak's office manager Sherry Kirsch prepare chocolate ice cream with marshmallows during a fifth-grade culmination fundraiser at Cold Stone Creamery in the Westlake Promenade last wee... More...

Stats can be deceiving, but the scoreboard never lies. The Oaks Christian football team was dominated by Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa in nearly every statistical category during the CIF Division III state championship game on Saturday afternoon at the Home Depot Center in Carson, and ye... More...

When Socks and I met she was crying like a baby, a kitten only about 4 months old. She was on my rooftop above the front door. I climbed up and got her and returned her to my next door neighbor where I knew Socks lived. After that I must have gotten her out of a dozen bad situations, and... More...

Agoura Hills Thieves stole a $6,000 iron statue of a boy and girl on a swing from the front of an apartment complex on Colodny Road. The theft occurred Dec. 6. Someone stole $1,500 worth of CDs and a $30 ladies purse containing credit cards and cash from a vehicle parked... More...

The local chapter of Young Life partnered with Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County by providing a day of service at its building site in Oxnard last month. More...

I don’t like shopping. I might even say I hate shopping. I prolong clothes shopping for myself for as long as I can, sometimes wearing shredded pants, faded shirts and sole-flapping shoes until my wife is so embarrassed to be around me that she drags me to the store. More...

Oh, how sinister, how devious the holiday season. Comes along yet another feelgood relationship movie featuring Hollywood’s loveliest lovelorn. How easy it is to set the stage with a quartet of lonely, beautiful people (yes, Jack, even you; even “Nacho Libre” himself, the hairy half of Te... More...

Recently a couple of people have written letters to The Acorn insulting our teachers. All we have to do is examine their rant a little closer to see that they are disgusted only with themselves. Individuals who are not at peace with themselves find it easier to attack others than ... More...

Schools are a hard sell these days. Everybody appreciates what they do for children, but nobody wants to deal with the intrusions the schools supposedly bring. For years, the Las Virgenes Unified School District sought residential approval to build A.C. Stelle Middle School in Calabasas. More...

Jean Lieberman was congratulated for her outstanding sales production by Debbie Hake, manager of Rodeo Realty’s Westlake Village branch. Lieberman has been a broker/realtor for more than 35 years in the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County. More...