2018-01-18

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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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Agoura Hills kids go on the job with the city



Student leaders from four elementary schools in Agoura Hills have formed a joint student council to share ideas about how to serve the community where they live. Introduced at the Dec. 13 Agoura Hills City Council meeting by Danielle Randolph, a fourth-grade teacher and student council advisor at Yerba Buena Elementary School, the Agoura Elementary School Council will meet regularly […]

Catch up with the Chargers

Agoura High’s girls’ basketball team opened league with some nifty fireworks. The Chargers, 11-7 overall, toppled Oaks Christian 53-48 in double overtime on Jan. 8 in the Marmonte League opener. They’ve also defeated Westlake (48-34) and Thousand Oaks (47-44). “We don’t have great athletes, but we have very, very smart basketball players,” third-year head coach Jason Ancrum said. “I believe […]

This is her time

Longtime best supporting actor gets top billing with first-place Chargers



Megan Lee is in the spotlight, finally. As someone who has started four seasons at point guard for Agoura High’s basketball team, Lee gracefully played supporting roles to older players, including Emily Cangelosi, now at UC San Diego, and Jazz Been, who stars for Biola University. Those days are over. Lee is the star. Lee is in charge. “Now this […]

The air up there

Conejo Valley’s Cole Seely is one of top pro riders in supercross circuit



As a child and a fan of off-road motorcycle races, nosebleed seats sufficed for Cole Seely. These days, Seely has the best seat in the house—the driver’s seat. Born in Westlake Village and raised in Newbury Park, Seely hasn’t missed an American Motorcyclist Association Supercross Series event at Angel Stadium since he was 10. Now in his ninth year as […]

Welcome to the fun house

Bolts have won CIF-SS record 145 straight Marmonte League games



One way or another, the streak will end this year. Agoura High’s girls’water polo team has won a CIF-Southern Section record 145 consecutive Marmonte League games. The section will no longer recognize the streak when the Chargers, who last lost a Marmonte outing in February 2004, migrate into the Coastal Canyon League next season. The Chargers (6-2 overall, 3-0 in […]

Flu season hits hard local communities hard



Coughs, fevers and headaches abound—Acorn country is in full-blown flu season, and as the county enters its fifth week of fighting the illness it’s hard for officials to say whether it’ll get better anytime soon. “Usually we only see lots of cases of flu for about two or three weeks, so it’s really hard to tell when this is going […]

For those who love to sing

The San Fernando Valley Chorale will launch a new season of singing, collaborative learning and camaraderie with rehearsals on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. starting Feb. 6 at Chapel of the Cross Lutheran Church, 10000 Sepulveda Blvd., Mission Hills. The chorale is a nonprofit, nonsectarian group of men and women singers. New singers can join. No auditions are is […]

‘Odysseo’: A rodeo of a different color

SHOW REVIEW


The Canadian-based Cavalia troupe’s horse-and-acrobat extravaganza “Odysseo,” currently playing under the big top in Camarillo by the 101 Freeway, has been such a galloping success since its opening Nov. 11 that its initial one-month run was extended through Feb. 4. We attended a Jan. 10 performance and, despite the closure of the freeway, the stands were nearly filled to capacity. […]

Astronaut to present celestial views

NASA astronaut and National Geographic author Terry Virts will bring his photos and stories to the Kavli Theatre at 8 p.m. Fri., Feb. 2 at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd. As pilot of the space shuttle Endeavour and crew member on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Virts spent 200 consecutive days in space as commander of […]

Local Saxer clan shares its musical legacy

CONCERT REVIEW /// The Saxer Family Reunion


The Saxer family, the Conejo Valley’s answer to the Von Trapps of “Sound of Music” fame, gave one of their all-too-infrequent concerts Jan. 13 in an eclectic revue of songs from musical theater history. The show featured 10 members of the growing family of performers, all the progeny of local theater veterans Shelley and Gary Saxer. The Saxers’ history in […]