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Ullman Sails Newport Beach pivoted within days of California’s pandemic-driven stay-at-home order in mid-March to start cranking out reusable face masks using tough but breathable technical fabric, keeping its sewing machines humming and its seamstresses from furlough.
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Their first drive-in theater event, featuring “The Princess Bride,” on Saturday was such a hit that they added two more on Sunday and Monday. -
Orange County health officials reported 100 new cases of coronavirus Thursday, revealing a steady upward trend even as restaurants and retailers began reopening Memorial Day weekend.
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The Laguna Beach Unified School District will be holding an online graduation ceremony on June 11, but it hopes to hold an in-person event the week of July 27.
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The sixth annual OC Brew Hee Haw wrapped up its two-day run Saturday at the Hangar at the Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa.
The Huntington Beach town hall meeting, conducted via Zoom from 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m., will feature a panel and focus on small business recovery from COVID-19.
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Parents lined up vehicles and waited to drive their children through a corridor of teachers in what, for some, was a final farewell to the Costa Mesa campus.
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Newport-Mesa District Supt. Fred Navarro writes that while an in-person graduation is a major milestone, the district came to the recommendation that this year’s commencement would be broadcast online, so that students and their families can participate in a safe manner.
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Orange County historians have been mourning the death of the Santa Ana building that once served as the United Presbyterian Church, and they are concerned that other vacant historical structures may be vulnerable since the more than 100-year-old church building burned down.
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The Daily Pilot’s e-newspaper includes Thursday’s coverage of Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Laguna Beach, Fountain Valley and other parts of Orange County.
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Since 2009, Navidi has been leasing space near Lambert Road and Valencia Avenue to house Future Foods Farms, whose motto is “sustaining the planet one plate at a time.”
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The Orange County Breakers will be one of nine World Team Tennis franchises to play at The Greenbrier resort.
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Costa Mesa will allow safe and sane fireworks sales from June 30 through July 4 and permit the discharge of legal fireworks from July 2 through the holiday, with certain restrictions.
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The Huntington Beach Pier, which had been closed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic, is open again.
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The City Council unanimously approved a permitting program that allows businesses and religious institutions to temporarily expand into parking lots, sidewalks or other adjacent private or public property to maintain their usual occupancy — or at least get closer to it.
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The plan was introduced and approved at the May 12 City Council meeting. It is geared towards helping foster the local economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Wellness Matrix Group falsely promised buyers an FDA-approved coronavirus home testing kit with results in 10 minutes, L.A. city attorney says.
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City Council members backed away Tuesday from a proposal that would have asked Costa Mesa residents to decide in November on modifying Measure Y, instead deciding to form a citizens group.
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The alternative budget adopted by Senate Democrats differs from the governor’s proposal to address the state’s coronavirus fueled deficit in several key ways.
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It marked the first coronavirus death in the ranks of the L.A. County public defender’s office, and it comes as courts across California chart a path to reopen services and ease restrictions.
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George Floyd: Protesters rally outside LAPD headquarters
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More than 60 Imperial County coronavirus patients are being treated in Riverside County due to a hospital surge.
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Los Angeles County officials are hoping to find out as early as Friday whether they’ll be allowed to reopen restaurants for in-person dining, along with barbershops and hair salons.
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L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Council President Nury Martinez called on Councilman Jose Huizar to resign amid an ongoing federal investigation into a City Hall “pay-to-play” scandal. Huizar has not been charged.More Coverage
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Yolo County has lifted its local coronavirus shelter in place order, but the state order remains in effect
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Access will be a little easier for beachgoers visiting San Clemente this week after city leaders voted to reopen parking lots and remove fencing that prompted community outcry and a stern rebuke from the county’s top law enforcement official.
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The three prominent anchors were swept up in a corporate-wide restructuring.
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Lassen County reported its first cases, and Sonoma County has seen an increase after being among the first in the state to ease stay-at-home orders.
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George Floyd: Protesters rally outside LAPD headquarters
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What happened to George Floyd, Christian Cooper and Ahmaud Arbery shouldn’t be characterized as sad anomalies, columnist L.Z. Granderson writes.
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It marked the first coronavirus death in the ranks of the L.A. County public defender’s office, and it comes as courts across California chart a path to reopen services and ease restrictions.
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There were 116 new cases of the respiratory disease reported Wednesday by the Orange County Health Care Agency.
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The Daily Pilot’s e-newspaper includes Wednesday’s coverage of Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Laguna Beach, Fountain Valley and other parts of Orange County.
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Phase 2 permits in-person dining reservations and retail shopping with distancing and face mask protocols in place and the reopening of some person service businesses, including car washes, pet groomers and tanning facilities.
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Shortly after arriving to Los Angeles from Thailand, the Tila brothers opened Bangkok Market in 1972 and later followed with restaurants in Laguna and Manhattan beaches and beyond.
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There are 110 new cases of the respiratory disease reported Tuesday, and no new deaths. There have been 5,578 reported COVID-19 cases to date in Orange County.
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Costa Mesa resident Eric Stevens was relentless as a Cal football player. The 30-year-old battles ALS with the same approach.
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High school football teams will be grouped into playoff divisions at the end of the regular season, after proposal is approved 80-4.
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Sage Hill, Corona del Mar, Costa Mesa, Ocean View, Estancia, Brethren Christian and Fountain Valley were some of the area’s high schools honored by the CIF Southern Section for their academic success.
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Scout Devin Ugland and coach A.J. Gasporra have teamed up to offer free feedback for high school boys’ and girls’ basketball players.
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Houston Mallette averaged 15.7 points and seven rebounds per game as a junior, while leading the Tritons in assists with 4.9 per game along with 2.1 steals per contest.
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Many local physicians hadn’t been using telehealth before the coronavirus. But overnight, the pandemic forced an industry’s hand, and telehealth early adopters have been waiting for this moment.
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Not only can Blu-ray lasers replay the Harry Potter series 50 times over, they can possibly help kill the coronavirus.
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TimesOC’s e-newspaper includes all six pages of Sunday’s coverage of Orange County.
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Viet Rainbow of Orange County and AHRI for Justice collected $35,000 for undocumented LGBTQ members affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to fundraise.
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“Asian Americans,” helmed by director Renee Tajima-Peña, traces over 150 years of Asian American history, much of which is not taught in classrooms across the U.S.
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Anna Ellis, a Newport Harbor High School senior, writes that she’s in support of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District board’s decision to hold a virtual graduation.
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Riley DeCinces, a Newport Harbor High School senior, writes that her concern involves the Newport-Mesa Unified School District. She says she’s saddened by the district’s choice to cancel an in-person graduation altogether.
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Johanna Curgus writes that it was just announced that all Newport-Mesa Unified School District graduations would be virtual this year. To the class of 2020 seniors (and their families), it feels like the school board is giving up way too soon.
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