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Ojai Thanksgiving Takeaway Guide 2025
Food
Ojai Thanksgiving Takeaway Guide 2025
Food

Feast without the fuss

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Food
WE❤MO
Living
WE❤MO
Living

The sharing economy goes analog in Meiners Oaks

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Living
Taste of Ojai at 25
Food
Taste of Ojai at 25
Food

The whole Valley’s food scene in one afternoon

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Food

OJAI LOCALS ONLY (OLO):

OJAI LOCALS ONLY
Real Estate + Housing
Real Estate + Housing

Look up (almost) any property owner

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Around Town
Around Town

New shop opening in downtown Ojai, the VORTEX weather report

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Culture Desk
Culture Desk

More details about the new gallery opening this weekend

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Quick Takes
Quick Takes

Quirk courts cougar, dance party annoys local

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Ojai Thanksgiving Takeaway Guide 2025
Ojai Thanksgiving Takeaway Guide 2025

The whole story

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HOW OJAI GREW ON DREW:

Seven Decades of Adventures, Misadventures, and Magic Through the Eyes of Drew Mashburn

Step into Ojai's vibrant history with personal essays by Drew Mashburn, VORTEX’s most prolific and insightful storyteller. Through wit and nostalgia, Drew crafts a heartfelt love letter to the place he calls home. Let his tales guide you through the essence of Ojai life.

Home
The East Aliso Years
The East Aliso Years

Drew's favorite childhood home

It Was All Downhill for Drew
It Was All Downhill for Drew

Rites of passage on South Rice Road

Promoted
Promoted

From bystander to Cub Master

Poppy
Poppy

A century of life, love, and chicken dinners

Drew Pulled the Trigger
Drew Pulled the Trigger

A lifetime with Ford's iconic Model A

A Grave Situation
A Grave Situation

Digging graves during the 1969 flood

Hot for Teacher
Hot for Teacher

Misplaced affections at Nordhoff High

Ojai Tales
Ojai Tales

Runnin’ around in the 1950s and 60s with Drew Mashburn and friends

Dad's Old Oak Tree
Dad's Old Oak Tree

Family memories of a Meiners Oaks giant

Jim and Patty
Jim and Patty

A bearly believable story

Marvin Werber Was a Ranger
Marvin Werber Was a Ranger

Nordhoff Rangers, 1951

Chester
Chester

A slice of life from Matilija Lake Park in the 1970s

 
 
 
 

If you’re asking…

Welcome to our new advice column from Katie McQuillen. She is absolutely not your therapist, your best friend, or your moral compass, but she is extremely good
at telling it like it is.

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