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The new millennium has been a transformative time for newspaper publishing.

Changing reader habits and the advent of new technology have placed big demands on companies in the print news business.

The Acorn and its parent company, Times Media Group, understand that their biggest responsibility is not only the delivery of credible, relevant information in a timely fashion, but making sure residents have easy access to the publication when stories become available.

That’s why we’re super excited about the news being shared today.

Following a five-year stretch in which Acorn readers were given the option of purchasing online subscriptions to the paper, that so-called “paywall” is coming down.

“Mr. Publisher, tear down this wall,” the late President Ronald Reagan might have once said.

And so we did.

Starting immediately, all online content from our five Acorn publications will be available at no charge to the reader, meaning a paid subscription is no longer required to click and read articles. The weekly Acorn has always been delivered to your driveway at no cost—that more than 40-year tradition will continue—and from now on The Acorn on the internet will be free as well.

Why the change?

The Acorn is your community newspaper, and we want to make sure it stays that way. We believe it’s important that residents feel a connection to the stories we write and also learn about the businesses that advertise in their community. The absence of a paywall is the best way to ensure this free-flow of information remains.

We also invite readers to sign up for the new, easy-to-read Acorn newspaper e-edition delivered weekly to your e-mail. Viewed on mobile, desktop or laptop, the pages are super easy to navigate and, free, just like the print paper.

Local journalism is first gear in the engine that drives America’s free press, and a free press it shall be.

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Walking tour introduces Las Virgenes Creek

Emergency prep class—that’s a 10-4

If you want to log some serious air time, chatting with folks across town and around world, channel your energies into the Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club’s upcoming certification courses. Through the club, ham radio enthusiasts can earn two different kinds of Federal Communications Commission licenses, a general and a technical. The five-week courses will be offered Saturdays on March […]

Mother in Grossman trial says cars approached at “insane speed”

Nancy Iskander testifies as courtroom hearing gets underway


Following a suggestion by the defense that it was the boyfriend’s car that struck and killed the two brothers, the boys’ mother, Nancy Iskander, described in her opening testimony at the Jan. 29 Rebecca Grossman trial how two cars—one driven by Grossman and the other by her romantic interest, former Dodger pitcher Scott Erickson—approached the Westlake Village crosswalk at “an […]

La Reina announces school closure

School community fights back


  Without fanfare, La Reina school this week notified teachers and families it would close its doors at the end of the current school year.  Teachers were informed early in the week along with the news they are to receive severance of a single two-week pay period, faculty members told the Acorn. Families of students were told of the closure […]

Knife killer in ‘reefer madness’ case gets sentenced to probation



A woman found guilty in December for killing a short-term romantic interest by stabbing him to death 108 times with kitchen knives will serve no jail time, a Ventura County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday. Instead, Judge David Worley sentenced the 33-year old woman to two years of probation for the May 28, 2018 homicide in Thousand Oaks. Bryn Spejcher, […]

The 100-day ride



Jan. 14 was a difficult day for the local Jewish community, to say the least. Exactly 100 days before, more than 200 men, women and children of Israeli and other national descent were abducted by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Amid the kidnappings, hundreds of others were brutally killed. While about half of the hostages have been released since that terrible […]

Nurses reach deal with Los Robles



Union nurses at Los Robles Regional Medical Center approved a three-year contract deal Jan. 17, ending seven months of intense negotiations sparked by allegations of unsafe staffing levels at the Thousand Oaks hospital. “ We are pleased they have voted to ratify the agreement,” Los Robles spokesperson Megan Merino said in a written statement. Merino declined to provide details on […]

L.V. Road claims another cougar

Officials from Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area report that another mountain lion has been found dead on a local road, likely struck by a vehicle. The deceased lion, an uncollared female about one-and-a-half years old, was found Jan. 15 on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas between Lost Hills Road and Mulholland Highway. National Park Service biologists collected the body, […]

Jury selected in Grossman trial with opening arguments set to begin



A 12-member jury comprising nine men and three women was chosen in the Rebecca Grossman murder trial at Los Angeles County Superior Court in Van Nuys Wednesday morning. The following morning, six alternate jurors were selected—three men and three women. The full jury was then sworn and instructed by Judge Joseph Brandolino. Opening statements were set for Friday morning. Grossman, […]

Rain, pipe leak, cause hill slide


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