2022-09-09

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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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2022-09-09 E-Edition

Libertarian attack on Nov. ballot irks local officials

‘They’re not from here, they don’t care about these issues’


Claims about the undermining of the democratic process are usually the realm of national politics, but there’s one political group that’s using its voice to charge unfairness in a local school bond vote and to complain about shenanigans in a measure that gives added powers to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. One accusation pertains to the $340-million school facilities […]

Federal funding flows to new pure water plant

Latest finance a drop in the bucket, but it’s a start


The Las Virgenes-Triunfo Joint Powers Authority announced it received a $10.2-million grant from the United States Bureau of Reclamation for its proposed wastewater-to-drinking water conversion plant in Agoura Hills. The $200-million plant on Agoura Road near the border with Westlake Village will provide up to 6 million gallons a day of drinking water for the 175-square-mile joint water district. The […]

Can’t bear the heat



Dimitri Orloff has lived in Simi Valley for about 20 years, and says he always heard talk about the mountain lions and bears in the nearby hillsides where he runs and hikes. But Orloff said he never saw any of the big animals, that is until last Saturday evening when he was washing his car on the driveway of his […]

HOT! HOT! HOT!

SPLASH ATTACK—Oak Park resident Wesley Porter, 7, beats the heat as he plays in the water Sept. 5 at the splash pad at Oak Canyon Community Park. Although splash-pad season is officially over at the park for this year, there’s still lots of fun to be had there. For more information, go to Oak Canyon Community at rsrpd.org.

Deputies rescue dog left by surfer in hot car


CLOSE CALL—The Malibu- Lost Hills Sheriff ’s Station said that last weekend its deputies had to break the window of an SUV, at right, in order to rescue a dog named Jack, below, that had been left inside by its owner. The incident took place in Malibu where the owner apparently left Jack in the heated car while going to […]

Manna food bank finds new home

Organization increases capacity for storage


Over 50 years after Manna was founded in the Conejo Valley, the organization has opened a new, larger facility aimed at helping make sure no one in the community ever goes hungry. The 5,000-square-foot facility at 95 N. Oakview Drive in Thousand Oaks officially opened its doors Aug. 24 with a ribbon-cutting celebration attended by about 75 individuals from the […]

More than two decades later, can we still stand united?

EDITORIAL

Objects in a car’s mirror may be closer than they appear, but, somehow, the opposite seems to be true in the mind’s own rear view. It can feel like just yesterday that something took place when, in fact, it’s been a decade or more. It happens both with life’s important personal events as well as the where-wereyou when moments that […]

Political Cartoon

Electricity the next big crisis

As we all know, during this recent heat wave we are being urged not to use electricity between the hours of 4 to 9 p.m. But, our elected leaders in Sacramento have also outlawed your buying a gas-powered car after 2035. So, if we don’t have enough electrical power now, where is it coming from? Wind and solar will not […]