2012-12-14

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Acorn online content now offered free

'Paywall' removed

The new millennium has been a transformative time for newspaper publishing.

Changing reader habits and the advent of new technology have placed big demands on companies in the print news business.

The Acorn and its parent company, Times Media Group, understand that their biggest responsibility is not only the delivery of credible, relevant information in a timely fashion, but making sure residents have easy access to the publication when stories become available.

That’s why we’re super excited about the news being shared today.

Following a five-year stretch in which Acorn readers were given the option of purchasing online subscriptions to the paper, that so-called “paywall” is coming down.

“Mr. Publisher, tear down this wall,” the late President Ronald Reagan might have once said.

And so we did.

Starting immediately, all online content from our five Acorn publications will be available at no charge to the reader, meaning a paid subscription is no longer required to click and read articles. The weekly Acorn has always been delivered to your driveway at no cost—that more than 40-year tradition will continue—and from now on The Acorn on the internet will be free as well.

Why the change?

The Acorn is your community newspaper, and we want to make sure it stays that way. We believe it’s important that residents feel a connection to the stories we write and also learn about the businesses that advertise in their community. The absence of a paywall is the best way to ensure this free-flow of information remains.

We also invite readers to sign up for the new, easy-to-read Acorn newspaper e-edition delivered weekly to your e-mail. Viewed on mobile, desktop or laptop, the pages are super easy to navigate and, free, just like the print paper.

Local journalism is first gear in the engine that drives America’s free press, and a free press it shall be.

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At The Library



The Moorpark City Library at 699 Moorpark Ave. will offer these free programs in January. For more information, visit www.moorparklibrary.org or call (805) 517-6370. The library will be closed on Tues., Jan. 1 for the New Year’s Day holiday and on Mon., Jan. 21 for Martin Luther King day. Children Programs for children in preschool through grade five. Little Bilingual […]

Legion to lay wreaths on veterans’ graves



This weekend, thousands of volunteers and hundreds of organizations will assist Wreaths Across America in laying more than 350,000 holiday wreaths on the graves of the men and women who served in the U.S. military at more than 800 locations across the country. As part of this event, the American Legion Moorpark Post 502 will conduct three simultaneous wreath ceremonies […]

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Registration open for adult leagues

. New tourneys for soccer, softball

Registration is open for the winter adult sport leagues— recreational basketball and futsal (a version of indoor soccer)—and tournaments in Moorpark. New this year are tournaments for 7- on- 7 soccer and softball. Registration is accepted on a team basis only. Anyone can form a team from work, church, family and neighborhood friends. Indoor basketball is offered on Monday and […]

Holiday sale benefits park services



Western National Parks Association, a nonprofit education partner of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, will host its inaugural holiday sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat., Dec. 15 at King Gillette Ranch, 26876 Mulholland Hwy., Calabasas. Nearly all items in the visitor center will be marked down by 15 percent. A percentage of the sales are donated back […]