Arthur Valenzuela Jr. ran unsuccessfully for the Oxnard City Council in 2013, when he was just 21 years old, but the outcome was different in a March 7 special election for an open seat representing South Oxnard’s District 6.
“It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.” That pithy proverb is sometimes said by people who are not advancing in their career, dismissing the accomplishments of those who do move up. However, at least in the public sector, beginning a suc…
Recycling paint through regular household hazardous waste drop-off programs is expensive, but residents wanting to discard paint have a lower cost option. Dropping off at a paint store participating in the PaintCare program is so efficient, t…
News In Brief: Week of March 9, 2023
Ventura’s La Quinta Inn near Victoria Avenue and Valentine Road might be converted into permanent supportive housing for unsheltered people and those at risk of losing their homes.
A $319 million dollar proposal by private investors to redevelop the Ventura County Fairgrounds with a minor league baseball stadium, oceanfront restaurants and new buildings drew a massive crowd of around 500 people to the Feb. 22 fair board…
Closing down two Ojai elementary schools and moving middle school students to the campus of Nordhoff High School next year will not save enough money to spare the Ojai Unified School District from a takeover by state education officials, the …
Couple pleads guilty to murdering newborn
Kat Merrick was running a charity, Totally Local VC, promoting Ventura County agriculture, when about seven years ago an amazing opportunity arose to find out first-hand what it’s like to be an avocado farmer.
New restaurants built in the city of Ojai will be banned from installing stoves and ovens powered by natural gas under a revised and renamed “Ojai Greenhouse Gas Reduction Ordinance” passed by the Ojai City Council on Feb. 14 in a move that’s…
Breaking like a giant wave of good feeling and camaraderie, the Rincon Classic broke Feb. 11-12 over the Point, bringing together the entire 805 surfing community as only Rincon can.
While watching The Children, onstage through March 12 at the Santa Paula Theater Center, one gets the sense of witnessing something important. The “searing pressure cooker” of a play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood also happens to be imme…
Does anyone ever question the basic assumptions of recycling? How do we know the energy consumption and pollution created during collection, transportation and recycling of some items does not exceed the environmental benefit of making a new …
DNA evidence links suspect to 1981 killings of two Ventura County women
Collect data for science Feb. 17-20
Last week, David White closed the books on a grant-funded composting initiative, ending a two-year program based in the Ojai Valley which served schools and community gardens in several local cities. As Executive Director of the Center for Re…
Ventura city leaders are working to improve the city’s image as a good place to do business by honoring some of the most outstanding local companies. A newly revamped Business of the Month program has been launched and the first three winners…
Thousand Oaks Chief of Police Jeremy Paris previously oversaw the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue Team for two years, so he’s well aware of the speed that’s sometimes necessary to save the life of someone who’s gone miss…
What kind of flowers should you not give on Valentine’s Day? Cauliflowers!
Mike Margolin knows how lonely holidays can be for senior citizens at assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, especially if they don’t have family members and friends who visit them. He works as a home health specialist for Assisted H…
Ventura County residents who had property damaged in the January storms have a variety of resources available to them.
Officials with the Port of Hueneme have unveiled a 10-year strategic plan that includes several ambitious proposals including the development of 250 acres of farmland north of Hueneme Road between Edison Drive and Olds Road for processing car…
A divided Oxnard City Council has recommended that future uses at two long-planned parks should include three sports: soccer, baseball and softball. The decision at the end of a long public hearing that took place on Jan. 17 left backers of o…
Ventura County Supervisors have declared a local emergency due to last month’s storm damage, which officials said was the worst experienced in Ventura County since 2005.
Billy Ridge, owner of Conejo Valley Electric, has recently been replacing gas stoves with electric ones at a rate of about three or four per week. “It’s not up to the level yet of the other big green effort. My crews are installing about four…
Oxnard CFO retires
Harvard Boulevard Improvement Project to replace pipes, repair road
Victim may have been killed for financial gain
“The rights of women have been trampled on”
From stoves to trash trucks: Regulations, not confiscations
For Grassroots Yoga owner Sarah Ingram, it’s all about community.
