Category: Orange County News

Former owner of Orange County wastewater treatment company pleads guilty to federal environmental criminal charge

The former owner of a wastewater treatment facility in Orange County and his company each pleaded guilty today to a federal environmental criminal charge for discharging untreated industrial wastewater into the county’s sewer system. Tim Miller, 65, of Kewaskum, Wisconsin, and his company, Klean Waters Inc., pleaded guilty to one Read More

Orange County Philanthropists Honored at 37th Annual National Philanthropy Day Orange County

Literacy Project Founder Sue Grant of Newport Beach with NPD Founder Doug Freeman of Newport Beach / Photo by Tony Lattimore and Carla Rhea In 1986, Newport Beach businessman and philanthropist Doug Freeman lobbied the U.S. Congress and convinced President Ronald Reagan to establish National Philanthropy Day to thank those Read More

Newport Beach Public Library Foundation Presents “Five Hundred Summer Stories: A Life in IMAX” with Filmmaker Greg MacGillivray Jan. 28

Quicksilver co-founder Bob McKnight, former Surfing Magazine senior editor Sam George, filmmaker Greg MacGillivray at the premiere of the 50th anniversary screening of “Five Summer Stories” at the New Port Theater in Corona del Mar. Laguna Beach filmmaker Greg MacGillivray was busy last year. Very busy. His 1972 surf movie, Read More

State Treasurer Fiona Ma announces results of $545.3 Million Green Bond Sale for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program

California State Treasurer Fiona Ma announced the results of today’s competitively bid $545.3 million bond sale on behalf of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board). Proceeds of the sale will be used for municipal clean water projects that have been approved for funding through the Clean Water Read More