UPDATE: *FANTASTIC NEWS* They found her alive. She was found on Linda Island working on another boat, unaware that the search efforts were for her. Today at around 1:30pm, a person was reported missing from the anchorage in between Bay, Lido, and Harbor islands. This anchorage is a temporary anchorage and not a permanent mooring. It is not yet known …
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The buzz around town is that in the past month the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District (OCMVCD) confirmed 26 new Aedes Mosquito infestation locations, including inside Newport Beach. Bites from these mosquitoes may look familiar to people who have spent time in the South, most often looking like “chigger” bites– but far more painful. These non-native and aggressive day-biting …
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Friday, August 31 through Monday, September 3, 2018, there will be DUI Saturation Patrols throughout the city, and concentrated in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests. Unfortunately, the Labor Day holiday weekend is one of the deadliest times of year in terms of alcohol-involved traffic deaths, with a third of all fatal collisions involving drunk drivers. “We …
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As Football season starts, I hope you are all gearing up to join me in rooting against the Jags! 🙂 I know many people made a tradition out of going to Rudy’s for football, but now Rudy’s has been closed— and what a wild ride Rudy’s had. After it was “DPs”, there was a guy whose name was actually Rudy. …
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If you like your clam chowder with a side of “Don’t Look Up Here”, get it soon, because the Crab Cooker’s last weekend is coming up. The easily-identifiable fish market and resturaunt has been open for 67 years, with one manager there for 50 years and some of their waitresses for over 40. This weekend, though, the business will be closing …
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Yesterday, on National Dog Day, multiple dog catcher squads caused even more confusion by preventing people from using Newport land to traverse into the County Dog Beach, leaving people to believe that this is not a legal Dog Beach. To be abundantly clear: The county’s Dog Beach has exactly the same legal standing as Huntington’s Dog Beach. Now, Newport is …
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Today is National Dog Day! My first dog was a stray poodle we adopted called “Licker” because when we found him he was so grateful, he kept licking everyone for the next several months. My second dog was a stray black lab that we named “Baby”, because she was so young when we first saw her (she was running with …
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For those of you who have had the luxury of dining on the worlds finest meatballs, you will be interested to know that Sol Grill is moving. The current location next to the Newport Pier in McFadden Square will be closing the last day of next month, September 30th, and they will be reopening at 2400 West Coast Highway, on …
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Councilwoman Diane Dixon, long known for trying to shut down Dog Beach (amongst many other things) has apparently convinced Mayor Duffy Duffield to use taxpayer dollars to recruit Coastal Commission lobbyist Don Schmitz to also lobby the County of Orange to convince them to shut down Dog Beach. Here’s a video of him admitting this much in the most recent …
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Last night and this morning, if you encountered a terrible smell along our coast, you weren’t alone. SaveNewporter Dave King alerted this to us at 10pm last night, and SaveNewporter Chris Wells did the same at 9pm– a big thank you to both! In a very-welcome shift of events, Mr. King also located the mysterious cause: At about 9pm last …
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