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One wreath at a time - thecamarilloacorn.com
2 hours ago · More than 1,500 wreaths were laid at the graves of veterans for the holiday season at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park in Camarillo. The annual Wreaths Across America ceremony, held Dec. 14, draws volunteers to the park to celebrate and honor fallen veterans’ service and sacrifice. Event organizer John Short III, president of Rolling Thunder CA-1, a national nonprofit support group <a href ...
Running up that hill - thecamarilloacorn.com
2 hours ago · Newbury Park’s football team won 14 games and captured the CIF-Southern Section Division 2 championship, the squad’s first since 1993. Junior quarterback Brady Smigiel was named the Acorn Newspapers Player of Year while senior wide receiver/defensive back Shane Rosenthal, the greatest two-way football player in Ventura County history, broke a state record with 324 career receptions.
Show time - thecamarilloacorn.com
Nov 30, 2024 · There are no pretenders, no cupcakes and—y’all better believe it—no turkeys this Thanksgiving week in high school football. Newbury Park and Simi Valley advanced to CIF-Southern Section championship games this weekend. Thousand Oaks and Oaks Christian lost their playoff semifinal bouts last week. St. Bonaventure, a team on the outer limits of Acorn country, will also play for a CIF ...
E-Edition - Camarillo Acorn
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 ...
Front Page - Camarillo Acorn
The Camarillo City Council is going full steam ahead to build an undercrossing at the train station. At a recent meeting, the five-member council approved contracting RailPros Inc. for roughly $2 million to craft a final design for the undercrossing on South Lewis Road beneath Highway 101.
FIRE TOPS THE NEWS OF 2024
2 hours ago · You don’t have to be a newspaper editor to know that the local story everyone was talking about in 2024 was fire. People we know, people we do business with and perhaps some people that we love saw tragedy in the year that just concluded as the Mountain fire destroyed 182 structures—including many homes—leaving heartache in their wake.
Officials meet, address insurance pain felt by local homeowners
Oct 26, 2024 · Panelists—who also included John Mallett and Daniel Groff, local mortgage and insurance specialists, respectively; Joe Morelli, Ventura County fire marshal; Larry Williams, VCFD fire hazard reduction program manager; and Steven Watson, director of the Ventura Regional Fire Safe Council—agreed the best way for homeowners to obtain reduced insurance prices is by reducing the risk a fire ...
Camarillo sees slight change in crime trends
Apr 6, 2024 · BE AWARE—The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office reminds residents that most of the crimes occur between 6 and 10 p.m. so lock doors and windows and leave on lights. Acorn File Photo Camarillo saw a rise in aggravated assaults and residential burglaries in 2023, according to Camarillo Chief of Police Eric Tennessen. The chief went over
A new look at Camarillo Commons
Dec 21, 2024 · The future of the Camarillo Commons area is looking a bit brighter with new plans underway. The City Council discussed the fate of the aging parcel at its Dec. 11 meeting. The Camarillo Commons, located north of Highway 101 and south of Ponderosa Drive, is 55 acres and includes two of the city’s oldest shopping