Newbury Park News

ANTHONY PLASCENCIA/THE STAR Marylin Matthews, a docent at the Stagecoach Inn Museum in Newbury Park, holds up a display card for one of the handcrafted miniature rooms on display at the historic locale.

CARLOS CHAVEZ/Special to the Star Runners take part in the family fitness night events Tuesday at Mesa Verde Middle School in Moorpark.

The Miller Family YMCA of Newbury Park is hosting a free July 4 family festival, parade, car show and 5k/10k Run/Walk. A community all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast is from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. with the car show running from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Awards will be given to winners in 10 different classic car categories.

Courtesy photo Chris Johnson is in control of Rick Eubler during a recent MMA match.

The Conejo Valley Unified School District has received three bids from investors wishing to purchase the district's Kelley Road property in Newbury Park, which currently houses the Conejo Valley Alternative High School and the district's maintenance facility.

CARLOS CHAVEZ/Special to The Star Kindergartners Max Senel and Katie DuHadway watch as Kris Lundgren cuts animal shapes from a metal sheet Wednesday during a tour of Thousand Oaks' municipal service center in Newbury Park.

Hot dogs are more popular today than they have been in years. Maybe it's because they're inexpensive.

Author Tammy Raden, of Newbury Park, leads a group of kindergartners through her interactive book app, Press Dress Priscilla Play, recently at the Honey Tree Early Childhood Center in Thousand Oaks.

A brush fire broke out at 1:30 p.m. in Castaic on Friday, May 17, 2013. NewsChopper 4 was on the scene.

Trails on the western side of the Santa Monica Mountains will reopen Tuesday now that the 24,000-acre Springs Fire is no longer a threat.

For much of the 1960s and the early 1970s, no suburban streetscape would have been complete without them: a squadron of kids clutching sky-high handlebars on low-slung bikes in eye-popping, hot-rod colors.

Kristie Akin/Special to the Star Simi Valley Adult School of Cosmetology student Kassidy Valdez, of Camarillo, styles Marie Donnel, also from Camarillo, during Saturday's Glam-A-Thon at the Pleasant Valley Senior Center.

Richard Quinn/Special to the Star Riders make their way along a straight section of Potrero Road in Thousand Oaks during Saturday's annual Cruisin' the Conejo ride.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Janet Patterson and volunteer Phyllis Marano dance Friday during the pre-Mother's Day luncheon at the Moorpark Active Adult Center.

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Two powerful military planes were parked on the tarmac near Point Mugu while the Springs Fire raged out of control last week.

Lucien Coniglio Jervis of Newbury Park is directing Conejo Players' production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." It's the 12th show she's helmed for the Thousand Oaks company.

Before and after images from NASA Landsat of the Springs Fire in southern California, which began May 2 and was 80% contained by May 6. NASA has published before and after images from space of an explosive wildfire that raged in southern California this past week.

Chinese food should really be judged in two parts. First, when it's hot and freshly prepared, and then again when you're standing in front of the open refrigerator in the middle of the night wearing your bathrobe.

The Miller Family YMCA of Newbury Park is offering a new summer learning program for kids entering first through sixth grades in the fall.