After more than 30 years of service, the Las Virgenes Library in Agoura Hills will close Oct. 6, in preparation for the opening three weeks later of the new Agoura Hills Library.

Diane Haupt, the 'book whisperer' and a volunteer with the Agoura Hills Friends of the Library, keeps a circle of book joy going as she processes donations, finds beloved books and sells them ...

The recorded history of Agoura Hills begins, like so many other Southern California cities, with the bestowment of a grandiloquent place name by Franciscan missionary Father Juan Crespi.