Unusual for the day after Labor Day…we have a misty and gray sky, as the kids head to school on the old traditional starting day. Of course, most students now start back sooner, sometimes by weeks, but today is when my internal alarm clock tells me that it is time for the school year to begin. Above is a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Newbury Park'
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September 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Education, Las Virgenes, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village
Tags: Conejo Valley·CVUSD·Oak Park·OPUSD·Thousand Oaks·Westlake Village
School Days
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Education, Lake Sherwood, Las Virgenes, Meditations, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village
Here are school start dates, hot off the internet! In Thousand Oaks, Conejo Valley Unified School District started today, August 30. Both Las Virgenes Unified School District and Oak Park Unified School District start Wednesday, September 1. There go those lazy, hazy days of summer, that is, if we ever had them this summer! There [...]
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Stagecoach Inn
August 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, History, Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, Ventura County
I finally giddy-upped over to the Stagecoach Inn Museum in Newbury Park on Friday. Since I have lived in the Conejo Valley eleven years, I thought it was about time to tour this historical landmark, and time for me to take a grandchild along too. If I had known that I would enjoy going through this copy of [...]
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Fog Coming up the Conejo Grade this Morning
August 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Meditations, Newbury Park, Outdoors
I was heading north on the 101 Freeway by the Borchard offramp around 9 this morning (8-15), when I took this photo of the fog, coming up the Conejo Grade and over the mountains. As you can see, one mountaintop is poking through. In this instance, Carl Sandberg’s 1913 poem, Fog, where fog, “Comes on little cat feet,” does [...]
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Bell Now Ringing on Pay for City Employees and Electeds
August 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, California, Conejo Valley, Economy, Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks
I like to read newspapers, even those outside the Conejo Valley. I was looking over the San Jose Mercury News this morning, which is a fine paper by the way, and read an article about the salaries of the city managers and police chiefs for fifteen cities in the Silicon Valley. The highest paid city [...]
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Latest Filing News from Ventura Elections Division
August 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Elections, Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks
Let’s look at the latest candidate filings from the Ventura County Elections Division, as of Friday, 7-30. Please note that a candidate could have filed with the city or agency for which they are running, and that information not be forwarded to the County yet. For the Thousand Oaks City Council, the following candidates have [...]
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Congratulations Conejo Valley, for Water Conservation
July 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Lake Sherwood, Las Virgenes, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Water Issues, Westlake Village
All the water agencies for the Conejo Valley report that ratepayers cut back their water use by 15 % or more for the year ending June 30! This is a big deal, because it means that throughout the year, we all made small decisions to use less water, that added up to that 15% reduction. The [...]
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Ventura County List of Candidates Now Online
July 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Elections, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Ventura County
The list of candidates and potential candidates for offices throughout Ventura County went online Friday (7-23) afternoon, an election worker told me, while I was filing papers. Since a candidate can pick up papers at the city or agency that is having the election, the county list may not have all the current names, if the [...]
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Heading Up the 101 and Down the Grade
July 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Development, Las Virgenes, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, Westlake Village
I started out on the 101 Freeway about 2 PM today, heading for Ventura from the east Conejo Valley. When I hit the usual freeway bottleneck just past the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, I remembered that I was not following my policy of staying off the 101 Northbound on Friday afternoons in the summer! In the morning, [...]
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Ladies, Run for Office!
July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Elections, Lake Sherwood, Las Virgenes, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village
It occured to me, going over the list of potential candidates, that over half the population is not making a very good showing. Yes, I am talking about women! Traditionally, it seems, at least as many women as men run for school boards, but that is not true for city councils, park districts, and sewer [...]
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