2002-08-01

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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

Calabasas baseball set for Marmonte League after fruitful summer

Acorn Sports Writer

The Calabasas baseball team appears ready to step up to Marmonte League action next spring after finishing its summer schedule with an impressive 22-8 mark. Last spring’s varsity team won the Frontier League title and was 17-9 overall. Hart beat Calabasas 7-4 last Saturday in a game which decided who would advance to the championship game of the Valley Invitational […]

82-year-old woman bleeds Dodger Blue



By John Loesing Acorn Staff Writer Eileen Russell just might be the most devoted Dodger fan around. The blue fingernail polish and blue sunglasses give her away every time. She’s definitely one of the oldest. At 82, the Agoura Hills resident recently earned recognition as the oldest official member of the Los Angeles Dodger Booster Club. Russell, who lives in […]

CHS grad takes his hardball to Chico

Special to The Acorn

Josh Goldfield, 23-year-old, 6-foot-1, 195-pound catcher, has found his place in the sun, a place in which he hopes he’ll shine this summer. He’s playing for the Chico Heat, an independent team in the Western Baseball League. Once again the 1997 Calabasas High School graduate from Thousand Oaks is wearing a "C" on his cap, but now the design includes […]

Pet of the Week



Sheriff’s blotter

Agoura Hills

Agoura Hills Stolen from the back seat of a BMW were music CDs and a briefcase. The loot was valued at $270 and a window was smashed to gain entry ($250 in damage). The break-in occurred on Agoura Road between noon and 6 p.m. July 16. A door latch and window pane at Agoura High School had $405 in damages […]

Slain

Yiddish
writers


Yiddish writers’ lives, works to be recalled in Aug. 11 program On Aug. 12, 1952, the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin executed 14 prominent Yiddish writers in an attempt to wipe out Jewish culture. It was the last wave of executions before Stalin’s death the following year, sending a strong statement of anti-Semitism that poisoned life for Jews in the […]

Bar and Bat Mitzvahs celebrated



Recently celebrating their Bar Mitzvah at Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks were: Zachary Levin, son of Lynn and Mark Levin of Agoura Hills; Sequoia Middle School honor students Ben Iker, son of Steve and Sharon Iker of Oak Park; Miles Yim, son of Keith and Kerri Yim of Newbury Park; and Drew Abrams, son of Mara and Gary Abrams […]

Westlake Lutheran Church services announced



Westlake Lutheran Church Sunday worship services are at 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. at 2630A Townsgate Road, Westlake Village. Childcare is provided all morning. For more details, please call (805) 497-4888 or visit the Internet Website at www.westlakelutheran.org.

Local rabbi earns an honor



Rabbi Alan Greenbaum of Temple Adat Elohim, Thousand Oaks, was awarded a doctor of divinity degree, honoris causa, by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) for 25 years of service at the commencement exercises of the 127th academic year of the institution. Founded in 1875, HUC-JIR is the nation’s oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual […]

Jewish New Year preparations



Conejo Jewish Academy will host a lecture, "Standing at the Crossroads—the Past, the Present, the Future," at 8 p.m. Wed., Aug. 14 at 30345 Canwood St., Agoura Hills. Guest speaker is Rabbi Dr. J. Immanuel Schochet of Toronto, Canada, author of numerous books on Jewish mysticism, Chassidism and philosophy. His lecture will focus on how one prepares spiritually and emotionally […]