500 Jobs. A Luxury Hotel. A Sports Complex. Is Simi Ready for This Scale of Growth?
A Simi Valley Council Candidate Has a Bold Idea: Turn Hummingbird Ranch Into the City’s Economic Engine (CLAIR | Simi Valley, CA) — Anthony Thompson has a question for Simi […]
A Car Nearly Destroyed Simi’s Hillside Sign and Landmark — What Happened Next Will Make You Proud
Simi Valley’s Hillside Sign Stands Firm Again — Rotary Team Rebuilds Santa Susana Gateway Landmark (CLAIR | Simi Valley, CA) — Nobody knows who built it. The city has no […]
A Woman Who Wouldn’t Quit Built Bottle Village
image credit: Robert Pacheco
It Was Built for a TV Show. A Fire Took Everything Else — So, Why Is This Church Still Standing?
Built for television, spared by fire, and still anchoring Paramount Ranch’s open landscape (CLAIR | Agoura, CA) — Framed by an open meadow and wide Western sky, the little white […]
Travel back to a simpler Christmas at Simi Valley’s Holiday Open House
(CLAIR | Simi Valley, CA) — A fully restored 1915 Ford Model A will rumble to life for short rides this year, giving the Holiday Open House at Strathearn Historical […]
The Past Pops Off the Branches: A Dazzling American Christmas Returns to Simi Valley
(CLAIR | Simi Valley, CA) — Blending historical highlights with a tribute to American pop culture, An American Christmas returns to the Reagan Library with 26 beautifully decorated trees that […]
The Roar That Defined a Generation: Simi Valley’s Forgotten Sound
Echoes of the Rocket Age: Remembering Simi Valley’s Sonic Past (CLAIR | Simi Valley, CA) — From the 1960s through the 1980s, Simi Valley lived with a sound unlike any […]
Simi Valley Once Had a Bavarian Castle — Then It Disappeared Without a Trace
No Records. No Ruins. Just Rumors: The Disappearance of Ulmer’s Castle (CLAIR | Simi Valley, CA) — Every town has its legends — stories told quietly, repeated with doubt, then […]
Would You Support an Upgrade to Simi Valley’s Happy Face Hill? — A Simple Idea to Make the Landmark Official
Artist Renderings: A Reimagined Happy Face Hill for the Next Generation (CLAIR | Simi Valley, CA) — What if Simi Valley’s most familiar grin became something more? What if the […]
They Promised a Simple Renovation. What They Built Instead Sparked Outrage
(CLAIR | Ventura County, CA) — Under the leadership of Governor Gavin Newsom and the California State Legislature, what began in 2018 as a modernization project for the aging East […]