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Gala supports region’s fieldworkers

2 weeks ago | mpacorn.com | Makena Huey

Ventura County nonprofit Friends of Fieldworkers is hosting its third annual fundraiser to honor the resolution and resilience of local farmworkers and their families. Harvesting Hope will take place 2 to 5 p.m. Sat., May 31 at Studio Channel Islands, 2222 E. Ventura Blvd. in Camarillo.
After three decades, murderer confesses

2 weeks ago | mpacorn.com | Makena Huey

Nearly three decades after Monica Leech was fatally shot during a Thousand Oaks bank robbery, a San Bernardino man has pleaded guilty to her murder. Kevin Ray James, 57, accepted a plea deal and will receive a sentence of 19 years to life in state prison, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. “Losing Monica has been an unbearable tragedy.
P-22’s nine lives explored in upcoming biography

3 weeks ago | mpacorn.com | Eamon Murphy

Brandon R. Reynolds moved back to Los Angeles in 2015, he found he had a famous neighbor, and not just some garden-variety movie star. Settling in Los Feliz, south of Griffith Park, Reynolds soon felt the compelling presence of P-22, the mountain lion whose trek from the western Santa Monica Mountains across the 405 and 101 freeways, all the way to the range’s eastern terminus near the heart of L.A., became the stuff of legends, locally and beyond.
BMX track plans up to speed

3 weeks ago | mpacorn.com | Michele Willer-Allred

After years of delays, the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District has taken a major step toward building a new BMX track, approving a conceptual master plan for the facility on vacant land next to the Sinaloa Golf Course. The board voted 4-1 on May 7 to move the project forward and authorized General Manager Dan Paranick to sign contracts with consultants to begin preparing a site application for city approval.
Bear ‘den’ causing problems

3 weeks ago | mpacorn.com | Scott Steepleton

Talk about poking the bear. Since the start of the pandemic, Pat Mike and her husband, Joe, have been bringing smiles to the faces of young and old with an ever-growing collection of teddy bears and other stuffed animals they display in their front yard at Appian Way and Fenmore Street.
CALL THEM RECORD-SETTERS

3 weeks ago | mpacorn.com | Scott Steepleton

High School track athletes and their coaches have much to celebrate this season. At the CIF Southern Section Division 2 preliminaries May 10 in Ontario, the boys 4×100 relay team broke the previous school record of 42.01, set in 2009, with a time of 41.92.
Residents request air monitors near landfill

1 month ago | mpacorn.com | Michele Willer-Allred

A growing coalition of residents, scientists and advocacy groups is urging officials to address new air quality concerns tied to the influx of fire debris being dumped at the Simi Valley Landfill. Operated by Waste Management, the landfill has joined the Calabasas Landfill as a major destination for debris from the recent Los Angeles County wildfires as well as November’s Mountain fire in Camarillo.
Public art, fresh pavement for High Street

1 month ago | mpacorn.com | Michele Willer-Allred

historic High Street is getting more than just a face lift— it’s getting a creative heart transplant. A wave of public art is set to sweep through downtown as part of the High Street Depot project, a mixed-use development under construction along the south side of High Street between the Moorpark Chamber of Commerce and the Metrolink Station. The new development will feature murals and sculptures celebrating the city’s past, part of a broader effort to blend art, history and revitalization.
School counselor hit with additional child molestation charges

1 month ago | mpacorn.com | Scott Steepleton

A former school counselor with ties to Moorpark Unified School District faces additional charges pertaining to child sexual abuse. David Lane Braff Jr., 42, of Thousand Oaks, already faced several felonies, said District Attorney Erik Nasarenko in a news release. Then on April 29, following an investigation by the DA’s Bureau of Investigation, prosecutors filed an additional 14 felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14 related to five additional victims.
A different way to pizza

1 month ago | mpacorn.com | Scott Steepleton

For most, good things come in threes. For Dan Collier, it’s all about the number 9. Collier, known to most as “PizzaMan Dan,” the guy behind the nine local pizza shops of the same name, is debuting a new concept in family dining: a pizza parlor, video arcade and tiki bar all under one roof in Camarillo. 999 Pizza as it’s called will offer a 14-inch pizza for $9.99. Chicken Caesar salad, $9.99. Build your own calzone, $9.99. The card that powers all those video games: $9.99.