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In one week begins the 28th annual BUCCANEER DAYS on Catalina Island!  For those who have been to Catalina, you have likely gone to Avalon.  “Buc Days” occurs on Two Harbors about halfway down the Isle.  It was originally a great free party by fun-loving boaters but has ballooned into a huge planned event with tickets, DJs, pirate costumes galore– …

Last night, the city council passed the highly unpopular fire station move, which places what is now the Lido fire station further South– the opposite direction of where 80% of its calls currently go.  This will add additional response time onto the response time for Lido Isle residents and anyone who is North of the current location. The reason for the move …

Sunday night, a locals hidden favorite, “The Porch” made its final closure after 6 years of business in the community under that name.  While we have not been able to confirm many details, it appears that a bakery in Santa Barbara purchased the land and the lease, and will be setting up shop there in a few weeks.  Currently, there are no details …

Remember nearly three months ago in June when Scott Peotter said that he was going to agendize the off-leash hours in Newport Beach?  Well guess what never happened. As it turns out, despite Dog Beach having support for approval by the vast majority of council, I have been told that Dixon has promised to oppose on all significant votes, anyone who …

Well, we all know that the peninsula’s “Summer” seems to end every year on Labor Day, but to everyone else in the US, today is actually the official last day of summertime.  So if you survived the parking, the traffic, and the tourists jamming up your favorite establishments, those days are over this year (at least until the Boat Parade …

First, an apology is due.  Yesterday, I stated that there was going to be a meeting at “Mariner’s Park”.  The meeting was at “Marina Park”.  This is a small misspelling with a tremendous impact, and I sincerely apologize to those who went where I directed them and had no meeting to be found. Second, last night was exceedingly unproductive. All of …

The public is invited to Councilwoman Dixon’s Townhall Meeting, tonight at 6:30 at Mariner’s Park.  Topics will include the moving of the extremely controversial Fire Station. In addition to this, she plans to cover the Flashing Crosswalks which we were promised an update on in June after many months of public protest.  Presumably, she will tell us whether or not we …

Councilwoman Diane Dixon’s unpopular trolley system which was overwhelmingly voted to NOT exist to begin with by the population as a whole has finally come to the end of its first year.  And by “first year”, I mean that the city spent $240,000 to allow it to operate for 28 days.  Yep, you read that correctly. The bus system is funded by …

If you remember back in September of 2015, McDonalds on the peninsula closed permanently.  Afterwards, the building was sold in June of 2016 for $1.975m— and it has been abandoned ever since.  Now, the city wants to buy this abandoned property for $4million.  Yes, that is a two million dollar appreciation in just one year, on a property that costs less …

A few days ago, longtime activist Bob Rush sent out an email in regards to the results of a Public Document Request Act that he had done in Newport Beach.  Included in the results of his query was an email that seems extremely concerning on its surface, which can be seen here: http://savenewport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Enemies-List-PDF.pdf In a nutshell, there was a guy named “ET …