VC Star By David Goldstein February 15, 2025 Push the button and bear the piercing sound at least twice per year, advise experts who stress the importance of testing smoke alarms. Most people probably agree, but actually doing it is the hard part. Similarly, when smoke alarms with non-replaceable batteries chirp incessantly, flipping the disabling…
VC Star By David Goldstein Feb. 7, 2025 Vandals repeatedly broke locks on cigarette butt containers along the Ventura beach promenade, sometimes dumping out the carefully stored cigarettes and sometimes stealing the entire container. Adding to the litter prevention program’s woes, a wrong-way driver exiting the nearby parking garage drove onto the promenade and destroyed…
Moorpark Acorn By David Goldstein 2/7/25 After the fire comes the cleanup, and Bakersfield-based Remedial Transportation Services—RTS—has begun work under a contract with the County of Ventura to remove debris from homes burned in last month’s Mountain fire. The company’s workers are looking for telltale green painted-letter identification on burned-out autos that alerts them whether…
VC Star By David Goldstein 2/1/25 In the gray landscape of fire debris at the tragic sites where homes burned in the Mountain Fire, a flash of green stands out on a hulk. The green is spray paint forming the letters “VC.” “Hulk” is the term used for the frames of burned vehicles. Remedial Transportation…
VC Star By David Goldstein 1/26/25 You paid to get into an event. You waited in a line for food. When you finish eating and are eager to enjoy the event, are you willing to spend time looking for a recycling container? Unless recycling at events is convenient and well marked, many otherwise decent people,…
VC Star By David Goldstein January 18, 2025 The sketchiest home improvement purchase I ever made involved a refrigerator. My wife and I wanted to upgrade, but we did not want to spend much since we already had a decent refrigerator and the upgrade seemed like an unnecessary luxury. Seemingly, the answer came on Facebook…
VC Star By David Goldstein 1/11/25 WM, formerly Waste Management Inc., recently distributed a flier calling on customers to “free your recyclables,” urging recyclers to “leave it loose” by not bagging recyclables in curbside carts and commercial bins. As the largest recycler in North America, WM created the flier two years ago, noting bags are…
Camarillo Acorn COMMENTARY /// Mountain fire December 28, 2024 Kudos to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors for its unanimous approval to waive certain rebuilding fees through 2026. The action offers financial relief to residents affected by the Mountain fire. Totaling as much as $5 million, the waivers ease the burden on those working to…
VC Star December 26, 2024 Even though Christmas tree recycling is an annual ritual, differing rules, dates and deadlines in various parts of Ventura County can make collection and drop-off confusing. The advertisements, flyers and online outreach from each city are seen by residents of other areas, but each resident needs to know their own…
VC Star 12/14/24 Two opposing perspectives on the future of plastic clashed at the United Nations summit on plastics, which ended this month in Busan, South Korea. Over 3,300 participants, representing 170 nations and more than 440 observer organizations, vigorously debated a variety of options to craft an “internationally legally binding instrument on plastic pollution,…