Sheriff's Dept. needs better PR
      Mr.Scrivano's vitriol ( Acorn letter to the editor, Oct. 4) lends one to question his impartiality. " . . .Strap on armor (and) put themselves between the scum of the earth and us?" Do the scum of the earth live in Agoura?
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Calabasas is not renter-friendly
      Calabasas' attempt to ban smoking in apartments is nothing more than a ploy for the city to gain publicity and national recognition.
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Heschel West project would strain local coffers
      Cleverly concealed among other things, in what the Heschel West School is calling their "Additional Information of Proposed Interim School Student Carpool and Busing Plan," is the request that the city of Agoura Hills foot the bill for 75 percent of Heschel's traffic mitigation.
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Heschel West waging 'holy war'
      Without so much as a blush, the Heschel jihad forges forward, prepared to shamelessly displace, discommode and endanger an existing community while desecrating and defiling the most pristine remaining open space in Agoura.
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District should honor class size
      As a parent of a child attending a LVUSD elementary school, I support Measure E, the $98-per-year tax wholeheartedly. In The Acorn's article regarding this tax issue on Oct. 4, it was reported that District Superintendent Donald Zimring stated, "The money preserved small class sizes in ...
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Readers weigh in on LVUSD's board
      I have two students in the Las Virgenes Unified School District and am very excited about a candidate for school board that has earned my vote. Jill Gaines has proven her leadership skills districtwide by cochairing the successful passage of Measure G and as an officer on the Las Virgenes...
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Dirty dealing
      A "whisper campaign," accompanied by denials in the form of statements to residents, is continuing to happen in the Westlake council race and needs some correction for those of you who are being misled.
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Westlake needs Ned Davis
      There is one aspect of those of us who live in Westlake Village that tends to define our community and that is our commitment to community service. We all spend a great deal of our time either going to school events, sitting on boards, attending the PFC, coaching teams, and the list goes on an...
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Kirschbaum's the one for Westlake
      Last week several letters spoke to Westlake Village beautification or lack thereof, depending upon the writer. I happen to be one who is very disappointed in the changes to the look of our city arising out of the actions of our City Council in the past few years.
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Several readers show their support for Klessig
      I have lived in the Conejo Valley for 31 years, the last 19 in Westlake Village. To my delight, the city I live in has become better year-by-year, a remarkable accomplishment not duplicated by many of the surrounding areas.
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Klessig needs to explain things
      The Acorn editorial from last week quotes Philippa Klessig, the incumbent running for reelection to the Westlake Village City Council, as having justified her abhorrent behavior in rejecting Jim Bruno as the mayor last December, by calling her decision "good government.
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