Bid awarded to complete sidewalks
The city will spend $1.8 million to add sidewalks to a halfmile stretch of Los Feliz Drive near Conejo School Road. Approved by a 5-0...
Redistricting meetings underway
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors seeks residents’ input on how district boundaries should be redrawn to best represent local communities. The County of Ventura...
Driver arrested for previously unreported ‘ramming’ incident
A man suspected of chasing and ramming a car last spring in Thousand Oaks has been arrested in Ventura. The suspect, Cameron Pucik, 26, was...
$1M made available to social service agencies, arts organizations
Before approving $10 million to buy the Hillcrest Christian School site, the Thousand Oaks City Council agreed last week to spend $1 million in discretionary...
Scars from America’s worst terrorist attack remain in Ventura County
On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people lost their lives when two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York and a...
T.O. Reads presents author talk
Thousand Oaks Reads’ One City, One Book program returns with an author talk and book signing with Meredith May at 2 p.m. Sun., Sept. 19...
BRIEFS
Cactus group gets together at CLU The Conejo Cactus and Succulent Society will meet Mon., Oct. 4 at Cal Lutheran University, Lundring Events Center, 130...
Trial by fire: CLU president revisits challenging first year
As the eighth president of Cal Lutheran University, Lori Varlotta is charting a new path forward for the 62-year-old institution. The first year of her...
Coyotes curl up near Triunfo Creek
PACK NAP—A coyote and her pup are caught napping in a bed of tall grass near Triunfo Creek in Westlake Village on Aug. 26. The...
Reading with rangers
A DIFFERENT KIND OF ADVENTURE— Alan Salazar and Mona Lewis talk about their book, “Tata the Tatviam Towhee: A Tribal Story,” during the Reading with a Ranger program Aug. 28 at...
Library to mark 20th anniversary of 9/11
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute will host a 20th anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 attacks in conjunction with Veterans and Military Business Owners Association and America Salutes You...
Dancing their way to confidence
Sitting in Jewell Gerald Powell’s home office is a laminated handmade card. The card is divided into two parts—a sort of before-and-after image illustrated in crayon. One half is almost...
New COVID cases steadily declining
Ventura County’s coronavirus case rate is trending in the right direction. After peaking around 28 on Aug. 20, the county’s seven-day average daily case rate per 100,000 residents registered 16.8...
West Nile rears head in county
The Ventura County Environmental Health Division received confirmation Aug. 26 from the California Department of Public Health that a bird collected during the third week of August from the City...
Clergy offer hope for hospital staff during difficult times
Instead of dropping their kids off on the first day of school, some young parents spent the last weeks of August in the ICU. The medical staff at Los Robles...
Hospital visitors complying with vaccination requirement
A recent requirement that hospital visitors be vaccinated against COVID or have a negative test within 72 hours has not received pushback from visitors to Ventura County hospitals, medical officials...
Panthers win emotional home opener
THE ACORN’S HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL REWIND In football, there’s the forward pass, the backward pass, the parallel lateral and the...
LAST WEEK’S TOP PERFORMERS —
Matt Erhart, LB, Oaks Christian: The Lion notched a game-high 19 tackles. Bennett Grace, LB, Westlake: The Warrior had game-high...
Contractor squabble forces CVUSD to shift plans mid-project
After a change to the scope of a construction project caused by a contractor dispute, work is proceeding on schedule at Los Cerritos Middle School, which is undergoing exterior renovations...
River Oaks Academy helps students look to the future
While many aspects of education were uprooted with the pandemic, River Oaks Academy, a charter school in Thousand Oaks, has been recognized for its efforts to inspire students to set...
High schools to host vax clinics
Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park and Westlake high schools will each host opportunities for community members to receive a COVID-19 vaccine shot on Sat., Sept. 18. The day’s first clinic is...
Chabad offers a variety of Yom Kippur services
The Yom Kippur services with Chabad of the Conejo are open to all Jews, affiliated or not, observant or nonobservant. Services will begin with the Kol Nidre at 6:30 p.m....
Church examines homelessness
United Methodist Church Westlake Village will hold a four-part study of homelessness featuring the book “Evicted” at 7 p.m. Mon., Sept. 13, 20, 27 and Oct. 4 on Zoom. Church...
High Holidays in full swing
L’SHANA TOVAH!—Top, Yaakov Gimpel, Payman Eliahu and Cantor Netanel Baram sing during a pre-High Holiday program at Constitution Park in Camarillo on Aug. 29.