Piru News

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.

It all started with Scott Price carving out a race track for his son. He first put in a small course with a few jumps a few years ago on his 586-acre property near Lake Piru, where his son could practice on an all-terrain vehicle.

Over the years, the town of Piru, California, has stood in for countless frontier towns - Hazzard County, Georgia, and Bon Temps, Louisiana , for example - in movies and TV shows, but it's never been transformed into anything quite like this.

An aggressive push to organize thousands of immigrant carwash workers in Southern California has sparked a fierce battle pitting big labor against two brothers who are major players in the Los Angeles carwash industry.

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