Somis News

Fifth-grader Rietta Peak, left and second-grader Shane Chapple team up to plant native flora at the EARTHS magnet school in Newbury Park on Friday.

They call their bridge club "The Girls," a group that started 56 years ago when its members were recent brides.

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors adopted a water conservation ordinance Tuesday for county-owned water districts, but it stopped short of a policy that would cut the lowest-level Tier 1 allocation in those districts by 15 percent.

One of the top 10 trends in holiday shopping this year is food gifting. As people become less interested in frivolities, practical gifts are increasingly appealing.

Rain soaked much of Ventura County and snow covered parts of local mountains today as a storm rolled into the region with two others on its heels.

Choices for tours of agricultural operations in Ventura County are wide and varied, probably more than this column has space for.

Westlake Village Inn CFO Chris Cuilty holds the layout for the vineyard that will be planted on the site of a former gas station at the corner Lakeview Canyon and Agoura Roads Friday.

Harry Morse wasn't surprised to learn a bear was struck and killed by a vehicle while meandering Tuesday evening along Highway 118 in Somis.

SOMIS A bear was killed late this afternoon after being struck by a vehicle along Somis Road about 5:40 p.m., authorities said.

The Santa Paula Police Department's tactical unit led off today's 60th annual Santa Paula Christmas Parade, and a city Fire Department vehicle toting Santa Claus finished it off.

Kristina Husted, center, stands with John Husted, right, and other relatives Friday during a vigil for Brock Husted and his wife, Davina Husted, who were killed in their Faria Beach home May 20.

The Oxnard Union High School District board on Wednesday voted unanimously to accept a bid from Dole Vegetables to lease 77-acres of the district's land in Somis.

A 56-year-old Somis man died Tuesday night after he jumped from a Moorpark freeway overpass in an apparent suicide, authorities said.

The Camarillo-Somis Pleasant Valley Lions Club offers people the chance to ride in the Tournament of Roses Parade.

With aquifers at dangerously low levels, the Ventura County agency charged with protecting groundwater sent bills this summer to 80 well owners, totaling almost $16 million, for back payments or penalties for overuse of water.

Photo courtesy of Jim Cathcart Motivational speaker Jim Cathcart, of Lake Sherwood-based Cathcart Institute, will be guest speaker at the 75th birthday celebration of Toastmasters on Nov.

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors today approved a 17 percent rate increase for its Somis water district, the latest, and probably not the last, in a long line of water rate increases in the county, according to officials.

Joel Mier, a seventh-grader at Somis School, plays trumpet during advanced band class.

Debra Ann Updike, a licensed massage therapist, says Camarillo is unfairly preventing her from getting a city permit to practice.

From staff reports Originally published 07:38 a.m., October 14, 2009 Updated 07:39 a.m., October 14, 2009 Rain soaked much of Ventura County overnight, but no major problems were reported, authorities said.