Category: Orange County News

City of Newport Beach Accepting Applications for Community Program and Special Events Grants

Art in the Park The City of Newport Beach is now accepting applications from organizations that provide community programs available to Newport Beach residents, and from qualified event organizers seeking financial support for Newport Beach-based events. To qualify for the special events grant, the events must take place between July Read More

Newport Beach City Manager Update: Digital Water Meters, Shredding and E-Waste Disposal

Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager I am pleased to report that after a multi-year effort, the City’s Utilities Department has converted or replaced all of Newport Beach’s older, analog residential and commercial water meters – about 27,000 – with new digital water meters. The digital meters Read More

International Boat Show Returns to Lido Marina Village April 18-21

Newport Beach Boat Show. NB Indy file photo. The Newport Beach International Boat Show will take place April 18 through 21 at Lido Marina Village, 3434 Via Oporto, with both on-water and on-land exhibitions, activations and entertainment. The reimagined show will transform Lido Marina into a beautiful European coastal experience Read More

Newport Beach City Manager Update: Newport Notified, Back Bay Landslide

Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager Beginning next week, the Newport Beach Police Department will broadcast emergency messages exclusively through our new public notification system, Newport Notified. If you have not yet signed up for Newport Notified, I encourage you to register today. As of Friday, April Read More

Newport Beach Composer Joseph Mulroy’s Musical about OC Surfers Gets Full Staging at Irvine Valley College through April 14

(L to R): Ruby DeKeyser (Bunny), Stephen Goeres-Hill (Surfer), James Farol (Tom Bannick/Surfer), Autumn Havlik (Bunny), Charlie Alvarez (Surfer), Jose Herrera Pena (Surfer), Ryland Henderson (Bunny) in “Surfin Days” at Irvine Valley College. Orange County has long been a hotbed of surfing culture. Huntington Beach has the moniker Surf City. Read More

On the Agenda: April 9 Newport Beach City Council Meeting

Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager The next City Council meeting is Tuesday, April 9. Items of interest are highlighted below. The entire agenda and reports can be viewed here: https://www.newportbeachca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/73675/72. A study session will begin at 4 p.m.: Discussion on the Balboa Read More

City Officials Celebrate Opening of Newport Harbor’s Newest and Largest Public Dock

Assemblymember Diane Dixon, Council Member Lauren Kleiman, Supervisor Katrina Foley, Mayor Pro Tem Joe Stapleton, Mayor Will O’Neill, Council Member Robyn Grant, Council Member Erik Weigand at the opening of the new public dock. Photo by Chris Trela. Officials from the City of Newport Beach, the County of Orange, the Read More