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Problem. Ed officially here congratulations. Picking up an award. Pete drove all the way to be there. Pete he had got an interview. Jedediah i wasnt there i was with salon. I have an excuse. Pete mothers day is next weekend. Jedediah might be a surprise from salons. You never know. Ed we have a fox news alert. Breaking overnight. A plane carrying 143 people out of Guantanamo Bay slid off a runway and into a river in jacksonville, florida. Jedediah 21 people have minor injuries. Officials calling...

FAREWELL TO ARMS—Superintendent Dan Stepenosky, right, greets LVUSD’s much-loved band teacher Matt McKagan during a June 4 retirement ceremony at Lindero Canyon Middle School. RICHARD GILLARD/Acorn Newspapers The community gave a joyful, heartfelt goodbye last Sunday to Lindero Canyon Middle School band director Matt McKagan, who is retiring after a 33-year career with the school

An agreement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by Las Virgenes Unified and other school districts against Juul Labs, the maker of nicotine vaping devices that have hooked countless young people and bedeviled schools. The amount was undisclosed, but a document seen by The Acorn gives the district’s share of the settlement as

MUSIC LEGEND COMES TO TOWN—Bay Laurel Elementary School students in the audience join principal Jackii Duncan, left, music icon Smokey Robinson, school music teacher Josh Barroll and a third-grader when the singer, songwriter and record producer recently visited the Calabasas campus. Robinson discussed Motown music history, segregation, and the importance of music as a universal

Josh Alpert’s letter in last week’s Acorn is so full of meaningless generalities as to be laughable. There is not a single valid reason given in the letter to replace LVUSD Superintendent, Dan Stepenosky, as Mr. Alpert advocates. Instead, the letter provides nothing but common, banal, platitudes that sound good but mean nothing. Here are

WOWED—Dan Stepenosky, Las Virgenes Unified School District superintendent, belts on his saxophone along with his band, Doc Step and the Expendables, at a Feb. 5 fundraiser at The Canyon club in Agoura Hills. The show raised more than $10,000 for school programs on behalf of the district’s The Foundation nonprofit support group. The school fundraising

With all the wonder a new year brings, one can’t help but look back at the old year—if only to say thank goodness it’s over. Although many residents in the community struggled with inflation, world turmoil and the ongoing effects of the pandemic, there were, to be sure, a few positive moments to chew on.

Holding a special election to fill the late Kate Vadehra’s seat on the Las Virgenes Unified School District Board of Education would cost close to $1.5 million, according to Los Angeles County Clerk Dean Logan’s office. Citing the high cost of an election, the school trustees voted 4-0 on Dec. 13 to appoint a replacement

TOP LEADERSHIP— Bay Laurel Elementary School Principal Jackii Duncan, center, receives her award. With her are Emily Ritchey, Calabasas High School counselor, and Melissa Gillespie, Bay Laurel counselor. Courtesy photo Jackii Duncan, principal of Bay Laurel Elementary School at Las Virgenes Unified School District, recently received the California Administrator of the Year award by the

In another pandemic school year, parents hope their children progress in academics, mental health and development. Many remain concerned amid more relaxed COVID measures.