Chad Gurnea of Pacifica was among the players honored on the All-CIF Division 2 team. (File photo OC Sports Zone, Tom Connolly). Pacifica High School junior pitcher Chad Gurnea is among the players who were honored on the CIF Division 2 baseball first team. Etiwanda, which won the CIF Division Read More
Jaclyn Sanchez with Irvine Valley head coach Ryan Windisch. Photo courtesy IVC Athletics). Irvine Valley College freshman women’s indoor and beach volleyball player Jaclyn Sanchez out of Huntington Beach High School is signing with NCAA Division I University of Nevada. Sanchez will be a setter for the Wolfpack indoor volleyball Read More
Thousands of jazz fans turned out for the annual Subaru Newport Beach Jazz Festival at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach June 3 through 5. Among the many notable performers playing jazz, R&B and soul music were Marion Meadows, CeeLo Green’s Tribute to James Brown, Brian Culbertson, Brian McKnight, Marcus Miller, Read More
Mosaic at Sherman Gardens Over 45 original mosaics of flora and fauna by internationally renowned mosaicist Irina Charny will be artfully displayed throughout Sherman Gardens in the summer art exhibit “Inspired by Nature” that runs June 21 through September 21. “Irina’s love of botanicals and nature informs her work, making Read More
A rising junior from Orange County, California has been named the grand prize winner in the Bill of Rights Institute’s national We the Students Essay Contest. Cynthia Huang from Irvine, a student at the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, earned the $7,500 grand prize after her Read More
Scott Owen, Stan Frazier and Joel Owen of The Side Deal Stan Frazier, Scot Owen and Joel Owen are all alumni of Corona del Mar High School, and alumni of noted bands: Frazier was the drummer and songwriter for Sugar Ray, while the Owen Brothers were The Pawnshop Kings. Now, Read More
Musical Theatre West (MTW) is excited to announce the return of one of the world’s most popular musicals, Grease, to its stage this summer! Fifty years after the original show hit Broadway, MTW’s 2022 production of Grease will tell the classic love story of Danny and Sandy, featuring a talented Read More
Orange County United Way hosted the 19th Annual Women’s Philanthropy Fund Breakfast on May 19, raising nearly $500,000 to support initiatives targeting poverty and housing instability in underserved neighborhoods in Orange County. More than 650 community leaders attended and tuned in for the event, making it one of the most Read More
The Orange County Registrar of Voters will commence the first of several post-election tests and audits on Thursday, June 9, 2022, to ensure the accuracy of the 2022 Statewide Direct Primary Election results. The votes on a portion of paper ballots cast in this election will be hand-counted to audit Read More
The Antelope Valley’s only Democratic-elected City Councilmember Juan Carrillo won the party’s nomination for California’s newly-drawn 39th Latino Majority Assembly District on Tuesday’s primary election. Carrillo, who immigrated from Mexico to the United States when he was a teenager, worked his way through school as a dishwasher to become a Read More
