Thousand Oaks Acorn

06/23/2025

Remember the mammoth skeleton found in the county? Here's where it is now:

Two decades ago, construction crews breaking ground on a new housing development in Moorpark weren’t expecting to dig up a celebrity. Buried just six feet beneath the surface lay a prehistoric giant—an Ice Age southern mammoth whose discovery would catapult the small Ventura County city into the...

06/20/2025

“The crime was violent, but the murder of Monica Leech was pure, unprovoked evil.” --Murder witness and colleague of Monica Leech

The man who killed teller Monica Leech during a robbery of a Thousand Oaks bank nearly 30 years ago has been sentenced. Kevin Ray James will serve 19 years to life in state prison. Changing a previous not-guilty plea, the San Bernardino man admitted on May 16 that he used a gun to kill Leech, an emp...

06/17/2025

 While protests over recent ICE actions have remained peaceful in Ventura County, the local Sheriff’s Office has joined the more violent fray to the south. In a June 9 message to the community issued in both Spanish and English, Sheriff Jim Fryhoff said his agency is closely monitoring the ongoin...

06/16/2025

Help Wanted:
The Acorn newspapers are looking for an experienced sportswriter to compile the publication’s fall “Pigskin Preview” special section (high school football).
Contract work.
Email letter and qualifications to: [email protected]

06/16/2025

Conejo Valley Days returns this week. The annual carnival opens Thursday at Conejo Creek Park South.

Yee-haw, dust off your cowboy hat and boots and mosey on down to Conejo Creek Park South from June 19 to 29 for Conejo Valley’s annual celebration of all things western. Conejo Valley Days, now in its 69th year, will be back with all the fun festival goers have come to expect: carnival rides, coun...

06/14/2025

In a time of division, Flag Day can help unify us:

https://www.toacorn.com/articles/in-a-time-of-division-flag-day-can-help-unify-us/

06/13/2025

Ventura County has sent deputies to the L.A. area to help with peacekeeping efforts. Included are previous remarks by Sheriff Jim Fryhoff discussing to what degree his agency works with ICE and what it can and can not legally do in regard to immigration enforcement:

 While protests over recent ICE actions have remained peaceful in Ventura County, the local Sheriff’s Office has joined the more violent fray to the south. In a June 9 message to the community issued in both Spanish and English, Sheriff Jim Fryhoff said his agency is closely monitoring the ongoin...

06/12/2025

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06/11/2025

PawWorks pet rescue in danger of closing:

After more than a decade of rescuing abandoned animals, Paw Works may have to close its doors due to financial challenges. The nonprofit, which has an adoption center and veterinary hospital in Thousand Oaks, has faced many obstacles over the years, from the founder dying unexpectedly to a car crash...

06/09/2025

"There is zero tolerance of violence." --- A message shared from Ventura Co. Sheriff Jim Fryhoff this afternoon says his office has deployed deputies to assist public safety efforts in L.A. He notes peaceful protest is protected and supported; however, acts of violence or criminal behavior will be addressed swiftly, Fryhoff said.

06/09/2025

He's not a rebel without a cause nor does he have anything to do with breakfast sausage, but Thousand Oaks' James "Jimmy" Dean is famous locally for something else entirely.

He’s designed the city’s most well loved landscapes and he’s protected the city’s most treasured resource. Thousand Oaks residents may not recognize James “Jimmy” Dean, but they enjoy the impacts of his decades-long career every day. The local landscape architect and arborist is retiring...

06/06/2025

The City's been contemplating selling the Hillcrest Center for the Arts property . Will CRPD, which is headquartered there, buy it? It's a possibility.

For more than two decades, Conejo Recreation and Park District has occupied the Hillcrest Center for the Arts building that sits near the top of Fireworks Hill overlooking The Oaks mall and much of the city beyond. Lately, the future of the building— which is owned by the City of Thousand Oaks, on...