A group of about 300 people from around Orange County gathered in Laguna Beach on Saturday as a preemptive response to a far-right rally planned in the city Sunday. The counter-protestors called their demonstration at Main Beach a show of solidarity and strength before the America First! rally,...
When you have been coaching football for as long as Newport Harbor High coach Jeff Brinkley, you tend to be good at drowning out the outside noise. Some have pointed out that rival Corona del Mar will be the first team to play a game that counts at the Sailors’ renovated Davidson Field, on Friday...
A partnership between a program at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa and Canine Companions is allowing a few furry friends and some tykes to each lend a helping hand. Or paw. After the opening of Segerstrom’s School of Dance and Music for Children with Disabilities in the spring,...
The large, long-dry fountain outside Fountain Valley City Hall may bubble and babble again soon, though it probably won’t be as full as it was in its pre-drought days. Landscape architects helping the city brainstorm a future for the fountain — a 17,000-gallon, three-part centerpiece of the city...
The Laguna Beach City Council on Tuesday will consider an appeal by CVS Health, which wants to move into a downtown location currently occupied by Laguna Drug. The Planning Commission in June denied the company’s application to amend a conditional use permit and open at 239 Broadway St. Pacific...
Chef Mark McDonald grew up in Huntington Beach, but the heart of his cooking — accessible tasting menus and bistro breakfasts are the backbone of his Costa Mesa restaurant, Old Vine Café — comes straight from southern Italy, a place he calls a “home away from home.” McDonald opened Old Vine at...
As I sat on my patio on a recent summer morning at 6:45, I thought about how lucky I am to live in Newport Beach. Then at 7 a.m., the morning quiet was interrupted by a roar that 7,000 residents directly under the flight path of John Wayne Airport hear each day. It came from the first 10 airplanes...
During the Aug. 8 Newport Beach City Council meeting, we experienced one of the most irresponsible and ideologically misguided acts in recent memory. Newport Beach was eligible for $480,000 in needed state funds to improve our streets, specifically for MacArthur Boulevard and University Drive. Rather...
The impact of what happened Aug. 12 in Charlottesville, Va., has not been lost on my Laguna Beach friends and yours truly. Talk about your darker angels. It is beyond a crime when someone makes himself out to be judge, jury and executioner. That is exactly what a white supremacist did when, according...
Did you know there is a certain smell to every classroom? I know it sounds gross; it’s not. Every teacher knows what I’m talking about. It's a reminder of all the past students who have sat in the classroom: the ones you worried about, the ones you knew would be successful, the ones who made you...
Re. “Newport takes steps to add 9-inch cap to Balboa Island seawalls,” (Aug. 9). Thanks to the Pilot for this item. There is no question Newport Beach will need to raise the seawall to protect from rising sea levels. The latest draft of the federal climate report has just been released. Most of...
A 29-year-old man with four previous DUI convictions was arrested Saturday in Costa Mesa on suspicion of drunk driving after officers found him passed out behind the wheel of his vehicle, with open beer cans, police said. A driver called 911 at about 7:50 p.m. to report that another car was swerving...
A 53-year-old man was arrested in Laguna Beach on Saturday on suspicion of hitting a bicyclist with his car two days earlier and trying to hit another, police said. Laguna Beach police responded to a report of a disturbance at 9:42 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of Bluebird Canyon Road and South...
A 22-year-old San Diego woman was killed late Saturday while riding in one of three vehicles that crashed on the southbound 405 Freeway in Costa Mesa. California Highway Patrol officers responded at 11:58 p.m. to a report of a three-vehicle crash on the freeway near the Bristol Street exit. CHP...
A Newport Beach caregiver was sentenced to five years in state prison Friday for stealing more than $125,000 from an elderly Balboa Island man who suffered from dementia. An Orange County Superior Court jury in June found Guillermo Trujillo, 43, guilty of two counts of caretaker theft from an elder...