You asked for it, and you got it! I am excited to announce that– due in large part to our tremendous local traction– SaveNewport has just inked paperwork to finalize our official partnership deal with Google’s Waze service– only the second of such partnerships in the nation! This deal has allowed us to create a new, permanently dynamic page which …

BREAKING: The hit and run driver who hit a 14 year old girl on her bicycle last night on Balboa Peninsula has turned himself in.  Anthony Michael George, 36, was booked on suspicion of felony hit-and-run.  His champagne-colored Mercedes was impounded earlier today. The victim is reportedly in stable condition, but does have a skull fracture from the incident that is …

UPDATE @3:35pm: Local Newport resident, Sara Lunsford, who reported the car, had heard about the incident from the news in the morning.  When she went for a run she noticed a car with minor front-end damage on the drivers side and a windshield which she said looked like “honestly, a body had hit it. It was pushed in and shattered on the …

“I may not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it”: This quote was uttered by Voltaire, a Frenchman who lived in the 1700s. Do you agree with this quote? I mean, really, really agree with it? This quote rings clearly in my head after the actions taken by Newport …

Yesterday’s questionnaire had about half of the requests for features listing the council live-streaming as what the community wanted to see as a top priority. GREAT NEWS: We just launched it– and tonight is a council meeting, so you can try it out! Tonight at 7pm, you can view the livestream by visiting http://savenewport.com/council We are currently working on a …

Two months to the day after hitting our last benchmark, we broke the very big barrier of over 4,000 Facebook subscribers alone– and we show no signs of stopping the growth! While our Federal Government certainly gets the most press, our local government is the one that has the most effect on our day-to-day lives.  From Diane Dixon’s “Lights Out At 11pm” …

REMEMBER: TONIGHT is the peak night to watch the Perseid meteor shower!  (It will continue until the 14th, but tonight is really “the night”!).  The moon will not be rising until 1:51am tonight– so we should be getting a very clear view! You can best view the Perseids by looking towards the Persues constellation, at a direction of Northeast around the time …

This rare photo is of the ferry called “The Islander” and was taken around 1915.   It was the second Balboa Ferry, whose service was taken over by Joseph Beek in 1919.  Beek who was one of the most influential early residents of the Balboa area.  He took the boat which was essentially a wrecked and abandoned hull, and repaired it on …

As everyone knows, since the beginning of this year we have been seeing the “surge of the scourge” (say that three times fast!), seeing a massive increase in our “street population” and troublemakers that come along with that.  Our local business owners are fighting back. After numerous reports of trouble with “Sarge”, his trashpile was removed from the 23rd St. parking lot, he pledged …

Today is the the day! The world-famous Hi Time Wine Cellar Chili Cookoff is happens today from noon until 5pm! The 9th annual celebration goes to benefit the Boys and Girls Club in the harbor area.  Last year, the event raised over $23,000, and hopes are this year will even surpass that.  Admission is cash only and is $10 to get …