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City officials, who’ve focused on addressing historic homelessness, are now considering how to keep citizens afloat as pandemic job losses grow and fewer are able to make ends meet.
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Two incumbents and two challengers are running for two open seats on the Costa Mesa Sanitary District’s Board of Directors, while a sitting director on the Mesa Water District board will face off against one challenger.
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NMUSD employees rallied in a motorcade Sunday to protest the district’s reopening schools next week, saying supplies and personnel are not in place and union talks are still ongoing.
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Local fire crews saved three Costa Mesa residents trapped in an apartment fire Saturday morning, then later doused a small brush fire that had broken out in Talbert Park.
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Organizers announced the 2020-21 Pacific Symphony concert season would be postponed to 2021-22, as concert halls remain closed during the pandemic. But staff and musicians are finding new ways to keep the music alive.
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Play spaces and restrooms at Lions Park, which has undergone several recent renovations, could be done by spring, while a new east side pocket park will honor Rachel Perez Hamilton.
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Supt. Russell Lee-Sung assured the Newport-Mesa Unified School District is prepared to start reopening schools Sept. 29, when thousands of TK-2 students will return to campuses after a six-month hiatus.
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The Fair Political Practices Commission found “insufficient evidence” that the Costa Mesa Sanitary District violated regulations when it circulated a newsletter disclosing how much Mesa Water District spent on a campaign to merge with the sanitary district in 2016.
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With just two weeks to go before children are set to return to Newport-Mesa Unified campuses, employees are urging the district to address outstanding concerns or keep schools shuttered.
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Funded by a $9,600 Southern California Assn. of Governments grant and installed by the Costa Mesa Alliance for Better Streets, the temporary roundabouts encourage drivers to slow down.
