Piru News

Piru is getting ready for their annual Christmas Parade! Pictured is a group of young ladies from Pirua s a Making A Differencea who painted the windows of local businesses with holiday pictures and messages.

Posted November 25, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Clara Valley is ending daily programming effective today at its five clubhouses in Fillmore, Santa Paula and Piru, CEO Doug Caldwell announced.

The fight for fair treatment and wages for carwash workers at California-based carwashes, in particular those owned by Benny and Nisan Pirian , has gotten a lot of media attention, but there are carwashes throughout the state that have and continue to treat their employees fairly and ethically, The Record reported.

Principals of four elementary schools updated the Fillmore Unified School District Board of Trustees on the academic progress of their schools Tuesday evening, November 17, 2009.

During the last year, water issues in Ventura County were complicated by a drought, endangered species, regulatory oversight, fighting between counties, budget constraints and lawsuits.

Re: your Nov. 16 article, "Gifted and ignored": With the cuts in Gifted And Talented Education funding and No Child Left Behind's pressure to focus on below-proficiency students, the unfortunate reality is that parents of gifted students cannot realistically expect that schools will meet their children's needs.

Lou and Polly Hengehold won't be at the Mill's completion ceremony today in person, but their presence will be unmistakable as people gather to celebrate not just a building, but the family who gave it and an entire community its heart.

The family of a 9-year-old Piru girl who drowned at Lake Piru this spring has taken the first step in filing a $12 million lawsuit against United Water Conservation District, which owns the lake.

Shown are some of the volunteers who helped make the N. Fillmore Storefront remodel a success.

Ian Gaven Patrick McKeown. Imagine, or can you remember, being seventeen years old and in your senior year at Fillmore High School .

Piru Charter School petitioners made a presentation to the FUSD board on October 21st, 2009.

Durborow, Spaulding, Pavik, Sweeney, Jolley Piru Charter School petitioners made a presentation to the FUSD board on October 21st, 2009.

That's right, "I Want You To" features the guys in Weezer makin' babies, presumably with each other, since the video is set in a town - called Weezerville - where every man, woman and child is a member of the band.

Ventura County received $34 million in grants, loans and other funding for water and infrastructure projects this week through a combination of federal stimulus and state money.

Dispatch: 'It's hard because it left everyone clueless' October 14, 2009 7:07 pm More than six weeks after Puncho Eteuati, 34, was gunned down in the front yard of his sister-in-law's Wilmington home, authorities said they have made little progress in finding his killer.

Ventura County is seeking 3rd District residents interested in serving on a county commission or advisory board.

Pictured above: Joanathan a oeJona Gerlach carrying a m16a2 with a m203, with Sgt.

The Middle Piru River features one of the best tailwaters in Southern California.

With Wall Street reporting one of its most stellar quarters ever, as the Dow Jones added 1,265 points, we're left to wonder all over again if another wallet-jarring stock market "correction" isn't inevitable.

The early history of California will be the theme of the second annual Ramona Days festival Sunday at the historic Rancho Camulos in Piru.