Convicted Ventura County serial rapist Andrew Luster has been released on parole from state prison, angering the mayor of Glendora in the San Gabriel Valley where Luster now lives, according to California’s Megan’s Law website. More on this at the link in bio. 📸: Courtesy photo

A band must have a good name. Something catchy, colorful, maybe even amusing. Nothing says this like the name of local Ojai/Santa Barbara band Lazy Daughter. Read our interview with Sophia Montano at the link in bio. 📸: Michael Montano

Kaira Wallace made the case before the California Coastal Commission for the largest marine aquaculture facility in the United States, potentially to be located about 6 miles offshore from Ventura Harbor. Details at the link in bio. 📸: Courtesy photo

Maggie Marschner, the former principal of La Reina Middle and High School in Thousand Oaks, and Karen Sher, Oxnard Union High School District board president, squared off in a candidate forum at Camarillo City Hall on Oct. 5. Read more at the link in bio. 📸: Alex Wilson

A VUSD committee tasked with recommending potential school closures has issued a report ranking elementary schools Lemon Grove, Mound and Poinsettia at the top of their list, followed by E.P. Foster, Sheridan Way and Junipero Serra. Link in bio. 📸: Alex Wilson

Among American classic theater productions of the 20th century, the most beloved play of this era might be Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” Premiering in 1938 and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, it remains a constant among theater companies. Link in bio.

While Jill Covell is grateful to her team at UCLA Health Ventura and the Coastal Radiation Oncology Medical Group — “they have been amazing” — she found that art was an important part of her cancer journey, and helped pave a path to healing. Link in bio.

Mission Basilica San Buenaventura is in need of repair. The mission’s historic main entrance is currently off limits and surrounded with scaffolding with broken plaster littering the stairs. Now a federal grant connected to the nation’s founding will pay for them. Link in bio.

Voters in California Assembly District 42 have a choice in the Nov. 3 General Election between Republican medical-device business owner Ted Nordblum and Agoura Hills Mayor Pro Tem Deborah Klein Lopez, a Democrat. Link in bio.

Setting aside the month of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month helps put a spotlight on the disease. Link in bio.

Electric vehicles challenge some long-established assumptions about transportation, so perhaps it is fitting that National Drive Electric Month challenges assumptions about calendars. Link in bio.

The race for the District 38 California State Assembly seat features Steve Bennett, an incumbent first elected to public office in 1993, versus a first-time office-seeker currently serving as Ventura’s city clerk, Michael MacDonald. Link in bio.

One local tribute to Dolly Parton is sponsored by Michael Putman Estwanik’s nonprofit music organization, Your American Songbook. Link in bio.

It’s time to get comfortable, dig your toes in the sand, grab your beverage of choice and find out who VCReporter’s audience chose as the best of the best in Ventura County. Keep reading at the link in bio.

Ever since Main Street Moves closed portions of Downtown Ventura to vehicular traffic during 2020, some visitors have complained about the aesthetics of the yellow metal movable traffic barriers placed at numerous intersections. vcreporter.com/news/obstacle…

National Park Service scientists recently completed a Burned Area Emergency Response assessment which identified protecting the Torrey pine grove as one of the park’s highest priorities before the onset of winter weather. vcreporter.com/news/torrey-p…

During uncertain times, music is a balm and creative connective tissue providing hope when it’s needed most. Iris DeMent deeply feels that sentiment and it’s a driving force behind her latest studio outing, 2023’s “Workin’ On a World.” vcreporter.com/music/lifting…

Avid hikers ventured to Wheeler Gorge Visitor Center in the Los Padres National Forest north of Ojai to hear from an adventurer who set the FKT, or fastest known time, on the Condor Trail, a thru-trail stretching over 400 miles from Lake Piru to Bottchers Gap near Carmel by the S

With a title like “Stupid F***ing Bird,” you would expect something farcical. I suppose that’s true, but underlying the story is what is known as “subtext.” vcreporter.com/art_and_cultu…

Ventura County Fairgrounds officials have scheduled a Sept. 15 discussion and possible action on a controversial proposal by a company called Global Stack USA, which is hoping to build what it is calling a “distributed resilience network.” vcreporter.com/news/controve…