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Neighbors

Pence touts GOP values at Reagan Library

By Becca Whitnall
Becca@theacorn.com
| July 8, 2021

Despite a rocky political year in 2020, the future of the Republican Party remains bright, former Vice President Mike Pence told GOP members and supporters during a recent speech at...

Recipe for success: good food, service, prices

By Ela Lindsay
eLindsay@theacorn.com
| July 8, 2021

The family-owned-and-operated El Tecolote restaurant in Camarillo takes its name from a Spanish word for owl, and it’s a very wise establishment indeed. For more than 70 years it has...

On the trail for good food and wine

| July 8, 2021

PONY team wins U-10 division

| July 8, 2021

VICTORY—The Agoura PONY Baseball U-10 Mustang division team wins the championship against Simi White, 13-10, in a thrilling game on June 26. Back row, from left: Coach Matt Greene, Zack...

Positions on arts board

| July 8, 2021

The Arts Council of the Conejo Valley is accepting applications for positions on its board of directors through Mon., July 12. In addition to serving staggered, two-year terms, board members...

Family

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

The Acorn Staff | June 17, 2021

Artistic reflections

| April 8, 2021

Agoura High School leads all competitors with six finalists in the 2021 Reflections art and music competition. AHS had more finalists than any other high school in a region that includes eight other school districts. Each year more than 10,000 student entries into the artistic...

Tooth be told: dental health

| April 8, 2021

Regular dental cleanings for kids are one of many aspects of people’s lives that have been interrupted over the past year. However, instilling good dental hygiene habits early is still critical in helping ensure long-lasting oral health for a child. Most dental plans cover children...

Health

Bumblebee Foundation buzzes over to Idaho

| July 8, 2021

The Westlake Village-based BumbleBee Foundation, a pediatric cancer organization founded in Southern California a decade ago, will expand its support services into Idaho starting next year, officials from the organization said. The foundation supports over 370 pediatric cancer families throughout California and is looking forward...

Website educates parents about vaping

By Makena Huey
makena@theacorn.com
| July 1, 2021

The Ventura County Office of Education doesn’t want students’ health to deteriorate in a puff of smoke. The agency has launched a website to inform parents and educators about the dangers posed by vaping, nicotine and cannabis, which the site calls “The Triple Threat to...

Fixing Medicare’s sign-up program

By Janet Trautwein
Special to The Acorn
| July 1, 2021

Each year, an obscure federal rule forces thousands of seniors to pay penalties for the rest of their lives simply because they made an honest mistake while signing up for Medicare. That number will rise unless Congress modernizes the program’s enrollment process. Seniors are twice...

Bingo, no Alzheimer’s

| June 24, 2021

Sports

One more time

BASKETBALL /// Acorn All-Stars
By Eliav Appelbaum
eliav@theacorn.com
| July 8, 2021

They played for months on outdoor blacktops and in empty gyms. They played with masks covering their faces. They played without bellyaching, kvetching or whining...

A curtain call for all

By Eliav Appelbaum
eliav@theacorn.com
| July 1, 2021

The juggernauts didn’t meet for a CIF-Southern Section championship. That was OK. Instead of wallowing in selfpity, high school softball squads at Westlake and Camarillo...

A SEASON FOR THE AGES

BASEBALL /// CIF-Southern Section Division 2 Championship
Eliav Appelbaum
Email: eliav@theacorn.com
| June 24, 2021

Details will turn fuzzy. Some games will bleed into others. Time will slowly tug at and fray the red stitches of the last pitch, the...

Schools

New vice chancellor in Ventura County

The Acorn Staff | July 8, 2021

Ventura County Community College District has appointed Cynthia Herrera to the position of vice chancellor for “institutional effectiveness” in a further move to help the...

College standouts

| July 8, 2021

Abigail King of Oak Park High School earned academic distinction for the 2021 spring semester at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. The following students...

Rocketry team from OPHS zooms to head of the class

| July 1, 2021

Oak Park High School was among 100 teams in the nation that earned the right to compete in this year’s American Rocketry Challenge finals. Coached...

COLLEGE STANDOUTS

| July 1, 2021

Aubrey Adams of Agoura Hills and Crystal Lane of Calabasas, both students at Cal State Northridge, were initiated into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society....

June 10 commencement extra special for grads of Agoura

AGOURA HIGH SCHOOL | June 17, 2021

Agoura High School selects these students as their 2021 Acorn Senior Standouts. Photos provided by the school. Sofia Montano Sofia Montano will be the first...

On the Town

School stages safe musical with technology

By Cary Ginell
originjazz@aol.com
| July 1, 2021

In the waning days of the pandemic, school theater departments continue to observe distancing measures by producing musicals and plays using Zoom and having students record their parts at home. But this wasn’t good enough for Frank LaGuardia, music and drama teacher at Meadows Arts...

A good song can be performed by anyone

By Cary Ginell
originjazz@aol.com
| July 1, 2021

In what was promised to be its last drive-in event, Conejo Players Theatre in Thousand Oaks presented a new twist on its series of flat-bed, parking lot musical revues with “Backwards Broadway,” which was staged June 18 to 20. The idea was to have performers...

Buster Keaton shows ‘hospitality’ at drive-in

| June 3, 2021

Celebrate the dawn of the Hollywood film era at a Date Night Drive-In Silents Under the Stars presentation of Buster Keaton’s comedy masterpiece, “Our Hospitality,” from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Sat., July 10 at Paramount Ranch, 2903 Cornell Road, Agoura Hills. Guests can watch the...

Live theater returns to campus

| June 3, 2021

Live summer theater will return to Moorpark College with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” The show will run July 22 through Aug. 8 outdoors on the Moorpark College campus, 7075 Campus Road. The show will be free and open to students and the...

Faith

Simply spiritual: time heals, pastor makes low-key return

By Dawn Megli
dawn@theacorn.com
| July 8, 2021

On a recent Saturday morning, dozens of people gathered in a small chapel near the beach to make a joyful noise. Women raised their hands in praise, men clapped and...

Frying fish for the faithful

| April 1, 2021

Passover marks a nation under God

By Brian Goldenfeld
Special to The Acorn
| March 25, 2021

Passover begins Saturday night March 27 and ends Sun., April 4, but what is Passover? This holiday commemorates the departure of the nation of Israel from Egypt. Pesach marks the...

Business

Local businesses will get extra boost under revised pandemic payout

By Ian Bradley
ianbradley@theacorn.com
| July 8, 2021

When President Joe Biden signed the $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan Act in March, $16 billion...

EYE ON LOCAL AREA STOCKS

| July 8, 2021

Cal State Channel Islands receives $15M donation, largest ever

By Alex Wilson
alex@theacorn.com
| July 1, 2021

A $15-million donation to Cal State Channel Islands from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, former wife...

Columns

Discipline tips: Why can’t siblings all just get along?

Bonnie Vandenberg | July 8, 2021

Question: Ms. Bonnie, what can I do to help my children get along? Everyone says sibling rivalry is normal, but I can’t stand their fighting! There isn’t a parent alive with more than one child who doesn’t know this feeling, whether the children are toddlers...

Celebration of life rituals can resume

Andrea Gallagher | July 1, 2021

I’m hoping my cousin gets the healing she needs this month. Almost a year after her brother David passed away, she is having a celebration of life for him. I wrote about Janet in a January 2020 column titled “A life is changed in the...

Overcoming anxiety of reopening

Andrea Gallagher | June 17, 2021

After months and months of pandemic public health restrictions, stay-home orders and phased reopenings, the governor lifted the restrictions June 15 and we should come much closer to “normal” soon. As I check in with my own feelings about this transition, the two words that...

Putting new life into dry bones

Sally Carpenter | June 17, 2021

Dry. Desolate. Barren. Some days our spiritual walk seems like it has detoured from God. We feel dead inside. And so did the people of Israel. The Babylonians had attacked Judah, set up a puppet king and deported the real king, the royal family and...

Raising kids using positive discipline

Bonnie Vandenberg | June 10, 2021

Editor’s note: “Ask Ms. Bonnie” is a new column debuting in The Acorn. Please submit parenting related questions to Ms. Bonnie for a chance to be included in her next column. See email address at the end of the column. Question: Ms. Bonnie, my daughter...

Crime

SHERIFF’S BLOTTER

| July 8, 2021

Agoura Hills On June 24 a thief broke into a locker at LA Fitness on Roadside Drive and stole a...

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Living rent-free during the pandemic

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The “haves” begrudging the “have-nots” over government assistance is as old as American politics itself....

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Letters

Parks recall will be expensive

| July 8, 2021

I just read another letter attacking Linda Parks. That twisted submission accuses her of being...

Questions city housing policy

| July 8, 2021

Senate Bill 330, the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, lists the reasons that California’s low-income...

Opposing views about the virus

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