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Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m, visitors can admire the style and craftsmanship of some of our areas– and Newport’s– finest wooden boats at the Balboa Yacht Club.  Visitors are welcome to board many of the boats, and it is a great and family-oriented event, which will include oceanographic art, food, live music, a silent auction and “Kids Toy Boat Building Pavilion”.  …

Today, 74 years ago, the United States and our allies joined forces for the Normandy Landings, code named Operation Neptune.  This operation was the largest seaborne invasion in the history of the world, resulting in five allied beachheads being established in Normandy. What you may not have known, though, is that our little beach town of Newport Beach was also a major …

California polls closed at 8pm yesterday, and we began seeing the votes roll in for the primary election. As of this writing, all polls are accounted for, but mail-in ballots will still be counted for the next several days.  Usually, mail-in ballots carry well for conservative candidates, so you may see a difference by as much as an point in some …

TODAY is Voting Day!  Share this with your friends to make sure they know where to turn in a ballot. YOUR VOTING LOCATION MAY HAVE CHANGED.  You can find your current voting location by plugging in your address, here: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/polling-place/?polling-location If you are too far from your ballot-casting location, you can visit any one of these and ask for a provisional ballot, …

A plane which lost power made a successful and injury-free landing at the corner of Newland and Hamilton in Huntington Beach approximately 4:45 p.m. today. Traffic is currently being rerouted in the area, but thankfully everyone is safe and the plane appears to have no physical damage. Details are emerging and this post will be added here as new information …

This Saturday will kick off the 2nd Annual Underwater Cleanup for Newport Harbor!  This event, sponsored by many local businesses, is the second event– the strangest thing found last year?   A firearm! (police said it did not appear to be used in any crime) If you are a PADI-certified diver with gloves and a cutting tool, you can sign up here: https://www.nhunderwatercleanup.com/register.html Beach …

Thank you to the more-than 2.5 million soldiers who have signed on the line and given everything for this country throughout its history– and the countless families that have had to endure the stress between contact from their loved ones, and the awful news when it came. We can all argue about whether or not wars were justified, but the spirit …

At 12:29pm today, a four-alarm fire was reported at Balboa Blvd on Balboa Peninsula.  Firefighters responded and the neighbors and local community had already evacuated the residents, reported to be in their 80s and 90s. While the cause of the fire officially remains a mystery, several reports have speculated that it was caused by an out-of-control BBQ which eventually ignighted …

First, I am travelling the last two weeks, so my apologies if my tone is not the same and my updates are less frequent.  As you know, I operate this as a one-man show, so life (and my software development company) often conflict with normal updates. But let’s get to the meat here: Balboa’s Bus system (which Dixon insists is a …

In Newport Beach we have a population of about 87,000 people, and a whopping 32,000 of them aren’t even registered to vote.  Today is the last day to register vote!  If you are not registered by 5pm today, you will be unable to vote in this upcoming election.  You can register online right here, in just 60 seconds: http://savenewport.com/vote I spoke with …