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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.

Archives

Chargers’ Legion baseball team advances

Special to The Acorn

For the second consecutive year, the Agoura 18 years and under baseball team will enter the American Legion Area 6 Playoffs as the District 16 champion. Area 6 playoffs begin today at the Birmingham and Chatsworth high school fields and continue tomorrow through Sunday at Jackie Robinson Stadium, Sawtelle, home of UCLA baseball. The top two teams advance to the […]

Warrior girls look to be basketball contender in the tough Marmonte League

Acorn Sports Writer

The Westlake girls’ basketball team coached by John D’Agostin won last week’s second annual Thousand Oaks summer girls’ basketball tournament by winning all five games it played. "It’s a really positive experience for us," D’Agostin said. "I think we’re playing the best that we’ve ever played right now since I’ve been at Westlake." D’Agostin, headed into his third year as […]

CHS football team hopes to surprise

Acorn Sports Writer

The Calabasas football team will face stiffer competition in the tougher Marmonte League this season, stepping up from the Frontier League where the Coyotes finished a disappointing 2-9 last year. Head coach Larry Edwards and his team took part in a passing tournament at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village last Friday and Saturday, and after an opening round […]

Campus safety, yes, but don’t lose freedom



By Paul Michael Hassett To paraphrase an essay by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the law has four essential components: government itself is bound by it; it must afford equal application to all persons; it must secure and protect the individual rights and freedoms that are inherent in our personality and dignity as human beings; and each succeeding generation […]

Funds pledged to promote students interested in Italian



A group of Italian-American leaders has pledged to raise more than $250,000 for scholarships for students willing to minor and eventually major in Italian at Cal State University Northridge (CSUN). The goal, according to professor Anthony Constantini, is to increase the number of people who can teach Italian in high school. "The Italian program here at CSUN has been promoting […]

Kids can learn basic soccer skills at WHS camp



Local coaches Bill Propster and Frankie Marino will conduct a soccer camp for ages 5 through 12 from 9 a.m. to noon weekdays, Aug. 5 through 9 on the Westlake High School campus, 100 N. Lakeview Canyon Road, Westlake Village. Propster is the boys’ soccer coach at the school. He and Marino will be assisted by soccer-playing counselors from the […]

AHS student attends medicine forum

She was among more than 400 outstanding high school juniors and seniors nationwide selected

Rebecca Wahlgren of Westlake Village, an honors student at Agoura High School, recently attended the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine in Los Angeles. She was among more than 400 outstanding high school juniors and seniors nationwide selected by virtue of their academic achievement and interest in a career related to science and health. Wahlgren and other participants learned firsthand […]

Datebook



THURS., JULY 25 Lunch Money Calabasas Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon at 11:30 a.m. at Calabasas Inn, 23500 Park Sorrento, Calabasas features Warren Cooley of Valley Economic Development Center discussing "Money…Money…Money: How to Manage It and How to Find It." $20-$25. RSVP: (818) 222-5680 Positively Magical Professional magician and entertainer Tony Daniels brings comedy, tricks and magic to the Thousand […]

Seniors pay too much for meds here



U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles) recently revealed that the Committee on Government Reform has discovered a dramatic price difference between what an average senior on the Westside of L.A. pays for prescription drugs vs. costs for seniors in other nations. For some drugs, seniors in Waxman’s district pay three times the prices paid in other countries. Uninsured seniors here […]

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