Branching Out with The Acorn Newspapers

Brooke Lafferty joins  Branching Out to discuss the subject of her inspiring story in the latest edition of Beyond the Acorn, just released last week. Plus, Acorn sports editor Eliav Appelbaum drops …

Branching Out hosts Kyle Jorrey and Ian Bradley discuss the latest development in the Rebecca Grossman saga: the Iskander family civil lawsuits. Filed by the parents of brothers Mark and Jacob Iskand…

With area students returning in droves, Victor Hayek, deputy superintendent for the Conejo Valley Unified School District, sits down with Branching Out to share his life story and talk a little bit a…

Camarillo Acorn reporter Alex Wilson joins Branching Out to break down some of the biggest stories coming from the other side of the Conejo Grade. Among them: how a rapidly expanding cannabis company…

Branching Out is joined by Timmy Heague, a local entrepreneur who owns and operates two comic book stores, to talk about how the collectibles industry took off during the pandemic and the ups and dow…

In the second of a two-part series, reporter Dawn Megli talks with former city council candidate Danny Chulack, a local clergy member who only recently came out as gay.

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In the first of a two-part series, Reporter Dawn Megli speaks with Lilly Berry about her journey to becoming a woman. Berry, an army veteran, talks about her youth in the community, her time serving …

Over the course of three hours at last week's Agoura Hills City Council meeting, members of the public shared a variety of opinions about why the city should drop it's recently filed criminal charges…

On this week's episode Ian sits down with Ray Pearl, the executive director of the California Housing Consortium and a member of the Westlake Village City Council about the state's push to add more h…

In honor of Independence Day, Dawn Megli sat down with Thousand Oaks resident and World War Two veteran Len Zerlin. Zerlin, who served in the Air Force, was a tail gunner in a Martin Marauder B-26 on…

Dawn Megli sits down with Jennifer Van Laar, a Simi Valley resident and the managing editor of Red State, a conservative news outlet. Van Laar's reporting brought to light then-Congresswoman Katie Hi…

On June 22, 2018 Tristan Beaudette was shot and killed while camping with his daughters at Malibu Creek State Park. Ian and Kyle revisit the so-called "summer of fear" that followed his death--what i…

Students from Conejo Valley Unified's Equity Task Force--Mia of Thousand Oaks High School, Cynthia of Westlake High School and Ava of Newbury Park High School--talk about their efforts over the past …

Westlake Village resident Matthew Pall knows the effects of the opioid epidemic firsthand. He lost his girlfriend and later his best friend to overdoses, and has spent years as a paramedic, resuscita…

Claudia Bill-de la Peña , current mayor of the City of Thousand Oaks, sits down with Branching Out co-host Kyle J. for a far-reaching interview about her 19 years on the City Council. Among the topic…

With summer around the corner and baseball in the air, Branching Out's in-house Dodger superfan David “DL” Lopez joins Kyle for a conversation with Kevin Klein, the founder of The Incline, a podcast …

As matters of race and racism continue to roil Ventura County, reporter Dawn Megli sits down with LaShaun Aaron and  Johanna Jones, co-founders of 805 Resistance, a grassroots organization dedicated …

Newbury Park's Ben Kuo sits down with Branching Out to share the incredible story of how he led rescuers to a lost hiker in the Angeles National Forest using nothing more than a cellphone image, his …

The Branching Out team and Acorn reporter Becca Whitnall dive into the most significant findings of the long-awaited Borderline Report, which offered the public a glimpse into the sheriff's departmen…