How to resolve AdBlock issue? Time to go electric
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- Published: Friday, 30 August 2019 11:09
If you traveled east along Ojai Avenue this week, you may have caught the view of Nordhoff Ridge and the Topatopas through a smog ring just below the top of the ridge. We have known for years we have deteriorating air quality in the Ojai Valley. The six-month “smog season” lasts through October and Ojai has some of the worst air quality in the county.
Help can't wait for Creek Road
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- Published: Friday, 23 August 2019 10:14
In 2018, Creek Road resident Teena Broumand documented 30 crashes on Creek Road, resulting in 19 injuries. She also noted that there had been three fatalities along that stretch — two since 2015.
Back-to-school time
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- Published: Friday, 16 August 2019 12:01
The start of public school in Ojai on Wednesday, Aug. 21, marks the unofficial end of summer.
Ojai can chart path to action
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- Published: Friday, 09 August 2019 09:52
Interest rates on bonds are the lowest in decades. We see an opportunity for local agencies to take advantage of the current 30-year T-Bond rate of 2.240 percent to reduce costs and make capital infrastructure improvements.
Put hold on hemp permits
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- Published: Friday, 02 August 2019 11:33
As California enters the Brave New World of legalized pot and permitted hemp production, we are literally experiencing growing pains. Now just four months after a system of permitting hemp pro-duction was put in place at the California Department of Agriculture, Ojai Valley residents are faced with the unknown. Here are some of their questions:
Students deserve our very best
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- Published: Friday, 26 July 2019 12:11
If there was ever a good time for Ojai Unified School District to be told by the California Department of Education that it has two of the lowest-performing schools in the state, it is now.
This is a time of change for the school district as it moves sixth-graders to the junior high; creates district voting; and welcomes a new superintendent, Tiffany Morse.
Ojai's finances can get boost at ballot
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- Published: Friday, 19 July 2019 09:43
Anyone who attended Ojai’s recent city budget meeting can gather that Ojai has a long list of goals that an infusion of funds can help achieve. Among them: citywide wifi, solar-powered city facilities, improved water dependability and delivery, disaster preparation, more sidewalks, a city swimming pool, bike lanes and more.
Case in point: Our streets will take 29 years to pave and bring up to acceptable standards. There must be a math problem, because they only last 15.
Wake-up shake-up
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- Published: Friday, 12 July 2019 10:39
If people at the Ojai Parade on July 4 felt the magnitude 6.4 earthquake close to Ridgecrest at 10:33 a.m., they might well have mistaken it for the marching band. A few people posted notes on the Ojai Valley News Facebook page saying they felt a gentle rolling or their cupboard doors opened or their pools sloshed.
From zero to 60: Buckle up, Ojai
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- Published: Friday, 05 July 2019 19:20
Tiffany Morse, our new Ojai Unified School District superintendent, isn’t just moving to town and into her new office. She is embarking on a journey and taking all of us who care about education in the Ojai Valley with her.
We cannot imagine a more dynamic jump-start to her new job than the first of three community forums June 30, called “Impact to Engage,” a summer series on growth and innovation in Ojai public schools.
More than 90 people jammed the offices of the Agora Foundation on Ojai’s Bryant Circle, showing the interest and concern of parents, educators and community members in the education we are providing students today and in the future.
Easy call for OUSD board
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- Published: Friday, 28 June 2019 10:36
The Ojai Unified School District Board of Education has dedicated and sincere trustees who have the best interests of all the students at heart and deserve our gratitude. They do not have an easy job. Their actions are governed by complex, sometimes overlapping, rules regarding conducting the people’s business in public and avoiding conflicts of interest.
Parking problems need fix, not study
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- Published: Friday, 21 June 2019 09:46
We all know the more things change, the more they stay the same.
That is why Ojai resident Drew Mashburn’s latest find in the newspaper archives is so timely and welcome.