2016-10-06

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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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2016-10-06 E-Edition

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Proposition 67 asks voters to undo plastic-bag ban

Manufacturers want the bags, but conservationists and others do not


The state’s plastic-bag ban is about to be addressed again, which may surprise California shoppers who believed lawmakers already had the final say on the heated consumer topic. The legislature passed a law two years ago banning single-use plastic bags. But a trade group for the plastics industry blocked the move and collected enough signatures to put a referendum—Prop. 67—on […]

Fire destroys Oak Park carport



TAKE SHELTER—Darwin Foye, a resident of the Shadow Ridge condominiums in Oak Park, was at home Sunday afternoon when this fire broke out in one of the parking structures at the complex on Oak Bend Lane. Foye took this photo. Three vehicles and the structure were destroyed, but there were no injuries. The Ventura County Fire Department is investigating the […]

Osler honored in Westlake

Fireman was killedfighting Canyon blaze


Nearly 3,000 people, including family, friends and a sea of blue-suited first-responders celebrated firefighter Ryan Osler’s life and 18-year career during funeral services for the 38-year-old father of two Monday in Westlake Village. In an unprecedented show of unity, scores of firefighters and engines from throughout Southern California agreed to staff all 52 of the Ventura County Fire Department’s stations […]

Agoura man arrested on gun charge



An Agoura Hills man was arrested Sept. 29 in the City of Ventura on suspicion of possessing handguns and a large quantity of ammunition. Cory Rebolledo, 24, was arrested by Ventura police officers after an investigator from the Ventura County district attorney’s office called the station about a man he believed was acting suspiciously around Valentine Road in Ventura. The […]

Enter fiction writing contest



The Acorn’s Fiction in a Nutshell contest returns for its ninth season this fall, and if you have a knack for good storytelling, you’re invited to take part. Here’s how the newspaper’s popular writing competition works: Think of a 100-word fiction story that you think will capture the reader’s imagination and set minds adrift. It’s not easy to tell a […]

SHERIFF’S BLOTTER



Agoura Hills A thief stole a registration sticker from the rear license plate of a vehicle parked on Lake Lindero Drive Sept. 24. Four people broke into Wood Ranch restaurant in the 5000 block of Cornell Road. The crime was reported Sept. 19. The burglars wore disguises and carried weapons. One culprit, wearing a clown mask and holding a sledgehammer, […]

When leisurely dog-walking turns lethal



When did walking the dog become hazardous to our health—and to our dog’s well-being? Recently, The Acorn published a heartwrenching letter from Richard Ojalvo, an Oak Park resident whose dog Buddy was attacked and killed in June by a neighbor’s German shepherd/Akita mix. Ojalvo’s wife, Gwen, was walking Buddy, and she too was bitten while trying to save the pooch. […]

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