Despite the state’s $19-billion shortfall, officials in Agoura Hills have achieved a balanced budget that will maintain all city services. In addition to keeping a healthy reserve, the city will contribute small grants to community groups and nonprofit organizations. At a budget workshop on June 11, Agoura Hills officials outlined details of the 2010-11 city budget and where the spending […]
2010-06-24
Ongoing school budget cuts raise frustration level
California’s depleted budget has become a never-ending source of frustration for local school officials, who now compare the state’s financial situation to a “circus” with ringmasters in Sacramento pulling strings in one sector of the economy in order to eke out funds that will resuscitate programs in another sector. Public schools seem caught in a high wire act. While 48 […]
Septic tank issue raises a stink in Old Topanga
Residents fear sewers lead to developmentMore than a quarter of residents with septic tanks in Calabasas are ignoring a new city ordinance that requires the systems to be inspected. Despite a May 14 deadline, only 60 of the 141 properties with septic tanks have begun to have their tanks looked at, and 45 have requested a six-month extension. The remaining 36 haven’t responded to the […]
Rev. Stapleford retires as minister of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
The Rev. Dr. Betty Stapleford is retiring after 12 years as minister of the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, a tenure during which membership doubled. Stapleford helped guide the fellowship into its own home in the Songbird Office Park in Newbury Park in 2008 after many years of the church renting spaces for services and events. Her last Sunday service […]
Datebook
THURS., JUNE 24 Agoura Newcomers Club Spring tea at 5945 Wheelhouse Lane, Agoura Hills. RSVP requested. Phone: 818.889.7150 Time: 11:00 a.m. Date: 6/24/2010 Chamber Of Commerce Reception 5 to 8 p.m. at Volvo of Calabasas, 24400 Calabasas Road. Reception for International Theater Festival of Calabasas sponsored by Agoura/ Oak Park/Conejo Valley Chamber. Special guest actress and director Linda Purl. Free. […]
Latter-day Saint youths serve others
Around the world each year teens from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints get together during the first week of summer break to do service projects. More than 200 young people ages 14 through 18 from Thousand Oaks and Moorpark gath- ered for an annual youth conference, “Extreme Makeover: A Mighty Change,” at the church’s stake center, 1600 […]