Times Ventura County Editor

Two of three Ventura County teens participating in a new monthly essay contest sponsored by The Times criticized city curfew laws as unfair. The contest, first in a series of writing competitions on topics in the news, asked Ventura County high school students to argue for or against laws that keep minors off the streets after dark in local cities.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR It has been said that journalism is history on the run. Whether or not everything we publish is history in the making, I do know that journalists here at The Times were certainly kept on the run in that news marathon known as 1992. For that reason, I asked staff writer Gary Gorman to take a deep breath and give us a thoughtful look at Ventura County and the events that affected us here in the last 12 months.