Ojai News

Did you ever play in the mud or build sand castles or do finger painting? Can you remember the satisfaction of making something, anything, with your own hands? Do you walk into an art gallery and wonder how a ceramic bowl is created or a handle is attached to a mug or patterns are etched on a vase? The Ojai Pottery and Clay School is offering the ... (more)

Taking a break from her U.S. tour, Lissie - the stage name for Elisabeth Corrin Maurus - is swinging by her adopted hometown of Ojai to perform at the Libbey Bowl on Saturday for a concert benefiting Changing Tides Orphanage in Haiti.

The Camarillo Song Circle will meet from 6:30-10 p.m. Tuesday at a members- and guests-only location.

And they're off! The Amgen Tour of California, aka "America's Greatest Race," blasted through downtown Ojai on Wednesday, May 15.

That's the message the property owners of Matilija Canyon's Hot Springs are spreading through the community, and beyond.

Family dysfunction, once a shameful secret reserved for tight-lipped conversations behind closed doors, has become the stuff of punch lines and self-help books.

Julia Edwards of Santa Clarita reeled in a 58.7-pound white seabass on Tuesday. Jim Clark of Channel Islands Sportfishing thought it might be a woman angler record, but Edwards didn't stay around for documentation.

Dean Adams, director of the Ventura Jazz Orchestra, plays a song as part of the Friday night jazz hour for residents of Los Robles Care Center in Ojai.

Ojai Valley Internet Radio has been around since November 2012 and since making this discovery I've been exposed to so many great musical genres and local musicians.

Four physician informaticists and the leader of a health information exchange have been named winners of the 2013 annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics given by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the organization for physician informaticists has announced.

KAREN QUINCY LOBERG/THE STAR Nick Dallas with Westlake High School watches his putt during the CIF Northern Team Divisional held at Soule Park in Ojai on Monday.

Courtesy photo Greg Totten , Michael Reagan, Steve Tobias and Spencer Garrett take a moment to strike a pose at the 2011 Michael Reagan Golf Classic at the Ojai Valley Inn Spa.

Monday: clear. High of 86F. Winds from the SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday: Clear. High of 82F.

Search Dog Foundation, which trains and deploys canine-firefighter teams to disaster sites to look for people buried alive beneath wreckage, has received $150,000 from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation to help complete its National Training Center project in Santa Paula, Calif.

Special delivery: the five golden coin turtles get weighed in the US before their historic flight to Hong Kong.

Camarillo reached a record high temperature Sunday, while other Ventura County cities hit near record highs, the National Weather Service said.

Contributed photo Scooter is a senior Chihuahua who came from a very bad situation.

Guest speaker Lyn Brown will present the lecture "PreCut Paradise." Brown will share many tips, tricks and techniques for using fabric jelly rolls, charm packs, layer cakes and fat quarters.

Four artists from Ojai's Nordhoff High School are hoping their creations garner enough votes in Vans Custom Culture shoe design contest to earn them a trip to New York City and ultimately $50,000 for their art department.

Simi Valley Street Fair: Vendors at more than 300 booths will be selling arts and crafts, clothes, food, home and garden items and beauty products at this event, which is sponsored by the Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce.