Neighbors

For as large and expansive as the California coastline is, the community of scuba divers who frequent its wild waters is, remarkably, quite small. So when news broke Labor Day morning that the Conception— one of three Santa Barbara based live-a-board dive boats owned by Truth Aquatics had caught fire and sank off the coast of Santa Cruz island leaving […]

BANDIT ALERT—Having her cup of coffee one recent morning, Valerie DeWitt says she was surprised to look out the living room window of her home on Passageway Place in Agoura Hills and see this raccoon visitor. Squirrels are quite common, but not this big little bandit. Keep food scraps in check!

Agoura Hills-based Veterinary Emergency Medical Assistance, a company that develops programs and products designed to enhance animal safety, has created a disaster relief kit especially for pets. The Agoura group will donate a monetary percentage for every kit sold to the nonprofit Little Angels Project—a VEMA partner that is also based in Agoura Hills—to assist the organization’s animal rescue and […]

Natalie Yanez of eXp Realty/ Team Bjorkman has been selected as chair elect of the Greater Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce. Don Phillipson, owner of WSI e-Pro Marketing, is serving as chair for 2019. Tom Cohen of Cohen, Begun & Deck LLP will have the chair in 2020. Yanez will chair the board in 2021. Born and raised in Southern […]

Oak Park High School senior Alina Tong recently earned her Girl Scout Gold Award by spreading the word about the difficulty students have returning to school after suffering a traumatic brain injury. Alina, 17, had experienced firsthand the problems students have when coming back to school after brain injury, and she realized there was a lack of awareness about them. […]