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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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Master of the Brush

THE ART OF MAKING ART—Artist Craig Nelson paints a coastal landscape during a Westlake Village Art Guild dinner demonstration March 5 at Los Robles Greens in Thousand Oaks. The guild’s next dinner demo, featuring artist Sharon Weaver, is April 2. Register by March 29 at westlakevillageartguild.org.  

Israeli fesitval survivors share their stories



It was the end of Sukkot, one of the more festive Jewish holidays, when Roie and Edan Yitzchaki ventured to the south Israel Negev desert to dance, listen to music and spend time with friends. What they experienced was death, destruction and terror. Roie Yitzchaki shared his experience Monday night at Thousand Oaks’ Temple Etz Chaim along with Edan and […]

Newbury Park, where the Big Cats roam

Baseball team wants to contend for league, CIF glory


Three Falsken brothers have played baseball at Newbury Park High. Cade Falsken, a senior for the Panthers, is making his older brothers Cole and Carson proud. Cade started playing the game when he was 4 with Newbury Park PONY Baseball. The Newbury Park shortstop and leadoff hitter is now a four-year varsity starter who will continue playing college baseball on […]

ALL TIED UP

IN THE LOOP—Roper David Thornbury teaches lasso skills to visitors during a roping show at Conejo Recreation and Park District’s McCrea Ranch in Thousand Oaks on March 2.

‘Mark and Jacob were murdered’

‘It’s now time to do good’ in boys’ names, Nancy Iskander says


As a wounded community begins its healing process in the wake of Rebecca Grossman’s convictions for the murder of Mark and Jacob Iskander, sentencing is set for April 10, with the defendant facing a maximum term of 34 years to life in state prison.. A jury in Van Nuys Superior Court returned the guilty verdicts late in the afternoon on […]

Families, donors sue La Reina

Suit says school sponsors practiced fraud and deceptive business practices


 Roughly one month after the closure of Thousand Oaks’ La Reina Catholic school was announced, a group of parents, students and donors has filed a lawsuit against the school’s sponsors, the Sisters of Notre Dame. Filed Monday in Ventura County Superior Court, the lawsuit claims the religious institution that sponsors the Thousand Oaks high school and middle school committed fraudulent […]

FPPC clears District 2 supervisor



  A Ventura County supervisor has been cleared of alleged election campaign report wrongdoing. “I am grateful that the California Fair Political Practices Commission ethics investigators took the time and effort to conduct a comprehensive investigation and conclude what I anticipated—that the complaint lacked merit and should be dismissed,” Supervisor Jeff Gorell told the Acorn. In April 2022, a member […]

WHS announces, cancels Black History Month dress-up days

Outfits to be worn were inspired by Black culture


 A Black History Month activity at Westlake High School originally planned for this week that encouraged students to show up to campus in clothing inspired by Black culture was cancelled after administrators decided it could cause harm.   “The cancellation was due to the concern that dress up activities for celebration months … might lead to the misrepresentation of a community […]

Grossman guilty on all five counts





A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury in Van Nuys returned a verdict of guilty on all counts against 60-year-old Rebecca Grossman in the 2020 street-racing crash that killed brothers Mark and Jacob Iskander in a Westlake Village crosswalk. The jury Friday found the Hidden Hills socialite guilty on two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of vehicular manslaughter with […]

Ethical borderline

Media demands legal fees from Borderline families, county


Family members of Alaina Housley said she and eight other people killed during the Borderline mass shooting have now been victimized three times. The first time was on Nov. 7, 2018, when a gunman opened fire inside the Thousand Oaks bar and grill, resulting in the deaths of 12 before turning the gun on himself. The second time was April […]


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