A stretch of Sunnycrest Drive in Oak Park has long been a source of concern for residents who live on the road's connecting culdesacs. After a speeding motorist crashed his car through the garage door of one of the homes, the residents decided they needed to make their streets safer. More...

The Business and Professional Women's Club of the Conejo Valley will meet at 7 p.m. tonight, Thurs., Sept. 4, in the lounge near the bar at the Hyatt Westlake Plaza, 880 S. Westlake Blvd., Westlake Village. Steven Hawkins, PhD, associate professor of exercise science and sports medicine, will speak on "Exercise and Health. More...

The city of Agoura Hills Department of Community Services announces these events. For more information, call the Agoura Hills Recreation Center at (818) 597-7361. •A Mature Drivers' Renewal Course, presented by Agoura Hills Department of Community Services Senior Recreation Program, will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tues., Sept. More...

Chamber looks at students' career options The Thousand Oaks-Westlake Village Regional Chamber of Commerce will hold a networking breakfast from 7 to 9 a.m. tomorrow, Fri., Sept. 5, at the Los Robles Greens Banquet Center, 299 S. Moorpark Road, Thousand Oaks. More...

•Stephanie Green of Agoura Hills was awarded the 2008/09 California Grocers Association Educational Foundation's Bernie Briskin Scholarship worth $5,000. Green will attend Stanford University this fall and major in biology. Her high school accomplishments include valedictorian, National Honor Society and a California Scholarship Federation. More...

Oak Park High head football coach Dick Billingsley is learning to say goodbye. Last year, Billingsley bid adieu to the majority of the Eagles' starting lineup, as star players such as Sean Westgate and Kyle Shorten graduated. More...

There's good news, bad news and better news about pets. The good news: A recent report by the American Veterinary Medical Association found that about 63 percent of all households in the United States have a pet. The bad news: 5 to 7 million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year and about 3 to 4 million are euthanized. More...

Two 15-year-old boys admitted to Lost Hills Sheriff's deputies that they accidentally started the blaze Aug. 26 that consumed about 100 acres of brush land between Liberty Canyon and Lost Hills roads in Agoura Hills and Calabasas. More...

The Rev. Arne Bergland has been selected as the director of church relations for California Lutheran University. He began his new position Sept. 2. Bergland will sustain and expand CLU's relationships within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. More...

The garage door is the largest moving object in a home, so keep it operating safely. Regularly check mounting tracks and hardware. If they are not attached properly, the door might come off the track and fall. Corner brackets are usually connected to high-tension cables. If loose, these brackets could fly off at dangerous speeds. More...

Actors in live theater agree that rehearsal goofs and backstage hijinks are often more entertaining than the play seen by the audience. Playwright Michael Frayn pushes this notion to its most outrageous extreme in "Noises Off," running at Camarillo Community Theatre. The noise you'll hear offstage during this uproarious farce is laughter from the audience. More...

I don't know how many pedestrian fatalities in a community are needed to consider it a regular occurrence, but two since June 2007 in the same corridor seems a bit too regular for this pedestrian. How many near collisions have there been? More...

SNEAKING A SNACK— Agoura Hills resident Tom Binder is visited by this squirrel every time he adds seed to the bird eeder in his backyard. "He's getting quite plump and is very happy," Binder said. "I'm not so sure the birds are as happy. More...

It's hard to accept that our once pristine communities are becoming vulnerable to the same crimes that plague Los Angeles and Ventura County urban areas. Oak Park, for one, is finding out the hard way that the crimes, especially crimes against property, are here to stay. More...