Sara Cardine covers the city of Costa Mesa for the Daily Pilot. She comes from the La Cañada Valley Sun, where she spent six years as the news reporter covering La Cañada Flintridge and recently received a first-place Public Service Journalism award from the California News Publishers Assn. She’s also worked at the Pasadena Weekly, Stockton Record and Lodi-News Sentinel, which instilled in her a love for community news. (714) 966-4627
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A request for the entitlements needed to move the project forward, approved by the city’s planning commission in December, are scheduled to come before the council Tuesday.
Council members pondered Tuesday scaling back on promised public works projects and eliminating unfilled job vacancies to cover a revenue shortfall brought on by a sales tax slump.
Parents and staff devised a plan to prevent displacement and layoffs while increasing tuition and enrollment, but Coast CCD board members OK’d a plan that will cut off the center’s main income source.
Mayor John Stephens sought a vote Tuesday to bring a seven-year committee discussion about the legalization of TNR to the council level but had to delay the matter once more.
A loosely knit group of women banding together as the Grandma Brigade held a small rally Saturday in front of the Tesla showroom in Costa Mesa to protest Elon Musk’s DOGE and its actions.
OCC’s bucolic Harry and Grace Steele Children’s Center has become the scene of a battle between officials proposing to cut programs and staffing and parents and teachers trying to save the beloved institution.
King’s Crew, the retail arm of locally based Gold Flora Partners, secured the entitlements to do business at 1687 Orange Ave. in 2022. But after a series of setbacks and miscommunications, representatives let their permit lapse.
The multiple-trunk tree, thought to be about 50 years old and more than 60 feet tall, fell Wednesday night on the car of a janitorial contracting company. No one was in the vehicle at the time.
After a temporary closure last month, the planetarium at Costa Mesa’s Orange Coast College hosts a free day of out-of-this-world programming and activities from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with five showings of three different films.