The Acorn

02/09/2025

Skechers is holding a grand-opening sale-abration at the Village at Moorpark! Get 50% off your entire purchase from Feb. 14 to Feb. 23! More info at local.skechers.com/ca/thousand-oaks/1512.

02/07/2025

Communities go NIMBY when it comes time to help clean and rebuild the Palisades. Is that fair?

The nightmare of a destructive wildfire does not end when the flames are fully contained and finally extinguished. Blazes like last month’s Palisades and Eaton fires, which killed at least 29 people and burned around 12,000 homes in Los Angeles County, leave a legacy of charred and potentially dan...

02/05/2025

Local running club picks up the pace, gains a following.
New scholarship awarded.
https://www.theacorn.com/articles/for-runners-of-all-ages-future-is-now/

02/03/2025

📷 ¡No te lo pierdas! Ven con nosotros a la inauguración de “Enfoque.” Disfruta de los retratos de Diego Huerta, danza en vivo, comida deliciosa, ¡y más! Entrada gratuita.

8 Febrero 2025
5-7 p.m.
Museo de la Agricultura
926 Railroad Ave., Santa Paula

Info: venturamuseum.org/event/enfoque-in-focus-community-opening-reception

01/31/2025

We asked, you voted, businesses win. Check out our Best of The Acorn special section this week and see all the category winners from Calabasas to T.O.
https://www.theacorn.com/pageview/viewer/BestoftheAcorn

01/31/2025

Comedy. Family fun. Music. Food. The Conejo Valley Comedy Fest will feature comics as seen on “Conan,” “Late Show with David Letterman,” Comedy Central, Netflix and Showtime at Tarantula Hill on Feb. 21 and the Conejo Players Theatre on Feb. 22. Go to conejovalleycomedyfest.com.

01/31/2025

Arcing, sparking, lightning PSPS?
Which is it?
https://www.theacorn.com/articles/flash-in-sky-not-lightning-related/

01/27/2025

💍✨ 2025 brides! The Bridal Premiere is coming Feb. 2 to Hyatt Westlake! Meet top vendors, win prizes, snag exclusive deals, and plan your dream wedding — all in one place! Go to bridalpremiere.com. 🎉

01/25/2025

Get to know Carden Conejo! Join the pre-K through fifth-grade school for its admissions open house, where you’ll receive admissions information, learn about its new campus, enjoy coffee, and take a campus tour! Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKZzStP8wouCHjDxqxyk_bOJTY_TpZGkhul3O2opMg3BKWIA/viewform.

01/22/2025

The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office is investigating a crypto scheme at Oak Park Unified School District with the possibility that school computers might have been used for illicit data mining. Person of interest questioned.

A clandestine cryptocurrency mining scheme that made use of Oak Park Unified School District computers could lead to criminal charges. Having been called in by the school district to investigate, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office submitted the crypto-mining case to the District Attorney’s Offi...

01/20/2025

Creative filmmakers and fans of the silver screen are excited to learn about the coming Ladyface Film Festival in Agoura Hills.

Movies are essential to the history of Agoura Hills, home to Paramount Ranch and a one-time Mecca for makers of onscreen Westerns. Now the city is gearing up for its own first-ever celebration of cinema, a showcase of documentary filmmaking set for next month called Ladyface Mountain Film Festival.....

01/15/2025

Kenneth fire represents one small victory for residents and stressed out firefighters. But evacuation missteps and power shutoffs didn't help matters.
https://www.theacorn.com/articles/evacuation-missteps-and-power-shutoffs-add-to-the-misery/

01/11/2025

Acorn crime report:
“The depth of the deceit and violence involved in this case is chilling, and we will not rest until justice is served.”

A Calabasas resident was set to be arraigned Wednesday morning in downtown Los Angeles in connection with the ambush killing of her ex-husband, a doctor who was gunned down outside his Woodland Hills medical practice last August. Prosecutors have said that 53-year-old Ahang Mirshojae, née Kelk, hir...

01/10/2025

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01/09/2025

$55 billion—a disaster of catastrophic proportion

With the region still catching its breath from the destructive Mountain and Franklin fires of November and December, extraordinarily severe wind conditions on Jan. 7 turned several Los Angeles County brush fires into a disaster of historic proportions. At midday Wed., Jan. 8, the Palisades fire had....

01/07/2025

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday morning was investigating a possible homicide after deputies discovered a woman’s body at the Palm Garden Hotel in Thousand Oaks the night before.

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday morning was investigating a possible homicide after deputies discovered a woman’s body at the Palm Garden Hotel in Thousand Oaks the night before. VCSO Capt. Ken Truitt said deputies responded to the hotel at 495 N. Ventu Park Road just before 11 p....