Somis News

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.

A rose named for the Coachella Valley will make its debut next month at the American Rose Society's Conference and Rose Show in Cathedral City.

The horse's owner, who did not want to be identified, comforts the animal after it fell into a barranca along Highway 118 in Somis.

Chris Sayer, owner of Petty Ranch citrus and avocado farm in Saticoy, looks over his 57-acre orchard in Somis.

The 9,700-acre Guiberson fire that broke out Tuesday in rugged terrain near Fillmore and moved toward Moorpark and Somis is proving difficult for firefighters.

Firefighters battling the 16,400-acre Guiberson fire in Ventura County took advantage of relatively light windstoday to attack flare-ups emerging on the northeast edge of the three-day-old blaze.

A Ventura County wildfire is threatening five 220-kilovolt power lines that supply Santa Barbara with electricity, authorities said Wednesday.

Cindy Harris and Doug Fieg run what they believe is the largest alpaca ranch in California.

Firefighters guarded rural homes, ranches and orchards Wednesday as a wind-driven wildfire grew to more than 25 square miles on a march through rugged land between small Southern California communities.

A wildfire stoked by the notoriously hot and dry Santa Ana winds has burned some 8,500 acres in the hills of Ventura County, where airtankers -- including a DC-10 jumbo jet and big helitankers -- have bombarded flames with retardant and water.

Bill Locker, Boys & Girls Club of Camarillo A fundraising executive from Northern California has been named president of the Boys & Girls Club of Camarillo at a time when the agency is trying to build its finances.