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CPUC Grants Ojai Public Water Hearing
By Logan Hall
Citizens living in the Casitas Municipal Water District boundaries voted on Nov. 8, 1960 to approve a payment of $31.4 million to be paid over 50 years to the United State Bureau of Reclamation. The funds were allocated for building the Ventura River Project that included the Casitas Dam, Robles Canal, Robles ...

Ojai City Council Gets Back To Business
By Tiobe Barron
The tone of Tuesday night’s Ojai City Council meeting seemed to be that of farewells. Mayor Betsy Clapp adjourned the meeting in honor of Gary Horgan, Councilmember Sue Horgan’s husband, who died Jan. 20. “Our thoughts are with Sue and her family,” said Mayor Clapp. The meeting also marked the end of ...

Casitas Pays Off Debt, Lowers Property Taxes
By Logan Hall
Citizens living in the Casitas Municipal Water District boundaries voted on Nov. 8, 1960 to approve a payment of $31.4 million to be paid over 50 years to the United State Bureau of Reclamation. The funds were allocated for building the Ventura River Project that included the Casitas Dam, Robles Canal, Robles ...

Ojai City Council Considers Plastic Bag Ban
By Tiobe Barron
Ojai, like cities across the nation, may soon become a plastic bag-free zone. The city is proposing a ban on what they call “single-use carry out plastic bags.” If passed, the ban would apply to all merchants, restaurants, grocery stores, and retail shops within Ojai city limits, except in cases where it ...


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Machine Gun Kelly's Shotgun On Auction Block
George “Machine Gun” Kelly’s chrome shotgun — left behind at Ora Shannon’s Wise County, Texas ranch (where Kelly held millionaire Charles Urschel) — is now up for auction. California Auctioneers will sell the 1930s gangster relic on Sunday online and live on premises in Casitas Springs to the highest bidder. The auction begins at 10 a.m. ...

Ojai Rain Totals Less Than Half Of Average
By Logan Hall
Ojai Valley residents got a chance to don rain gear over the weekend for the first time this year. Small storms dumped their payloads on the valley on Saturday and Monday, and puddles began to form on street corners and gutter. As those puddles dry up however, Ojai still faces drought conditions ...

Blighted Gas Station Taking New Look
By Chris T. Wilson
As local bicycle shop owners wait for construction permits at their new downtown location, an important environmental milestone has been crossed and a new business stimulus program is getting a boost from Ojai city officials. For more than 16 years, the former ...

Ojai Tops Local Food-Wine Competition
By Lisa Snider
When Ranch House owner David Skaggs agreed to participate in the inaugural Ventura County Wine Trail Local Food and Wine Challenge last Friday night, he said that would do so on one condition: “That we be paired with Ojai Vineyard.” His decision turned out to be a good one; the two took ...

Appel Arrested Again, Claims Innocence
By Logan Hall
Federal agents arrested local property owner John Appel last week on charges of illegally dumping debris on his 30-acre property near the Arnaz Grade. Agents from the Environmental Protection Agency took Appel into custody on Thursday, after which he was arraigned in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and released after ...

Ojai Schools Present Improvement Plans
By Misty Volaski
Thinking ‘way outside the box’ now the norm By Misty Volaski Nordhoff High School’s assistant principal, Greg Bayless, summed up what’s going on in Ojai schools in four words: “Sometimes, poverty spawns creativity.” With the Ojai Unified School District losing more than $5 million from its budget over the last few years — and the

Ojai Joins National 'Move To Amend' Group
By Chris T. Wilson
A local “Move to Amend” group will join forces in Libbey Park tomorrow afternoon as part of a national campaign to override the 2010 Supreme Court decision that established corporations as people and money as speech. The public is invited to attend, learn more and participate. According to current estimates from
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Using Electric Vehicles Just Got Easier
By Linda Harmon
Thanks to area environmental councils and a grant from the Federal Department of Energy, Ojai residents and visitors can get their electric vehicles charged for free at either of two charging stations while visiting the downtown area. “The upgraded charging locations are not new,” says Kent Bullard, board director with the Sustainability ...

MLK Remembered At Annual Ojai Event
By George Levin
Local teens put on an event honoring a civil rights hero this week, while other residents around the community gave up part of their valuable vacations in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About 250 people paid tribute to King at the Libbey Park fountain Monday, according to organizers Zelda Grove, ...

NHS Grad To Kayak Baltic Sea
By Chris T. Wilson
A 2009 Nordhoff High School graduate, now attending a liberal arts college on the East Coast, is about to embark on a 250-mile sea kayaking adventure. And she’s enlisting the community for support. At 19, Haven Whipple now a junior, will the youngest among a group of six Gettysburg College students ...

Horgan's Absences Questioned By Ojai City Council
By Tiobe Barron
At a special Ojai City Council meeting Tuesday night, Councilwoman Carlon Strobel questioned the recent absences of Councilwoman Sue Horgan, and if those absences should affect Horgan’s future on the Council. “There was a question about vacancies on the City Council,” said interim City Attorney Steve Lee after Mayor Betsy Clapp began ...

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