2019-02-15

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Acorn online content now offered free

'Paywall' removed

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.

Archives

Having words with cancer

The Cancer Support Community Valley/Ventura/Santa Barbara is taking entries for the seventh annual “Dear Cancer, It’s Me” high school essay contest. The entry deadline is before midnight Thurs., Feb. 28. All students in 9th through 12th grade attending schools from the West San Fernando Valley to Santa Maria who have experienced cancer are eligible to submit essays. The composition of […]

Celebrate Chinese year of the boar

Tai chi, fan and sword dances on tap

With an entertainment slate bursting with songs, poems dancing and martial arts, the Conejo Chinese Cultural Association’s Year of the Boar celebration is sure to be anything but a bore. The festival is set to take place at 7 p.m. Sat., Feb. 23 in the Kavli Theatre at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. Students from […]

Presidents Day celebration at library

Event features live music, crafts, and historical reenactments

What would you say to the Founding Fathers if given a chance? On Mon., Feb. 18 the Reagan Library is holding its 27th annual Presidents Day celebration, complete with actors dressed up like presidents and first ladies, including George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Abigail Adams and more. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine. […]

Chowder tasting, tall ships at harbor

Do you like your chowders creamy and rich or with a tangy tomato base? Discover a favorite style at the second annual Chowder Taste from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sun., Feb. 24 at Ventura Harbor Village, 1583 Spinnaker Drive, Ventura. In celebration of National Clam Chowder Day (which is Feb. 25), visitors can stroll the waterfront and taste-test seven […]

Su-su-Shakespeare: Bard gets ’80s update

play review /// ‘As You Like It’
Phil Collins song, Ray-Bans just some of the tubular twists


We’ve seen lots of things done to Shakespeare’s plays over the years, but in Camarillo Skyway Playhouse’s current production of “As You Like It,” which opened Feb. 8, the Bard is transported to the 1980s, complete with backward baseball caps, leg warmers and Ray- Bans. If you like this sort of thing, the show is a hoot and the cast […]

Turning bystanders into rescuers

Bleeding control kits to be installed around city

To save lives, the Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class of 2019 and the Simi Valley Police Foundation are working to bring bleeding control kits to the city. The Leadership team’s class project to raise funds for the kits and educational outreach follow the recent shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, where 12 people were […]

Tax reform creates new hurdles for taxpayers

COMMENTARY /// Your refund

As a result of tax reform, most taxpayers will be paying less tax for 2018 than they did in 2017. But that may not translate into a larger refund. Your refund is the amount that your prepayments (withheld income tax, estimated tax payments and certain credits) exceed your tax liability. If the prepayment also got reduced, you could be in […]

Ahh! Cappella gives back to ‘Basket Lady’

Brenda Hagen, a Simi Valley real estate agent, has a passion for helping those in the community who need it. With a team of about 30 friends and clients, Hagen regularly purchases, gathers and stores items to give away. Twice a year, before Easter and Christmas, she and her “worker bees” turn her home into an assembly line to produce […]

BRIEFS

City accepting applications for Projects Grant The City of Simi Valley is accepting applications for the annual Community Projects Grant. The grant is made available through an agreement between the city and Waste Management to fund community projects and programs that benefit Simi Valley. Annual funding of approximately $150,000 is available through this grant for local nonprofit organizations in support […]

Library face-lift