OC Restaurant Week dishes at Red O Restaurant Remember Newport Beach Restaurant Week? It was hosted by the Newport Beach Restaurant Association in early March and became so popular that it expanded to two weeks. The Newport Beach City Council disbanded the Restaurant Association in 2021 after 25 years of Read More
Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the City Council will consider a $2.1 million, five-year agreement with BRINC Drones, Inc. for seven public safety drones, a significant part of the Newport Beach Police Department (NBPD) technology upgrades that began Read More
For the 14th year in a row, the Crisp family (Gary, Julie and Carter Crisp of Crisp Imaging) entertained hundreds of Marines from Camp Pendleton for a Super Bowl extravaganza at American Legion Newport Harbor Post 291 in Newport Beach. On a sunny Sunday, Feb. 9, 300 5th Division Marines Read More
Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager The next meeting of the Newport Beach City Council will be on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. The full agenda is available here: https://www.newportbeachca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/77121/72. Agenda items include: Consideration of a $2.1 million, 5-year agreement with BRINC Drones Inc., of Seattle, Read More
Positive Beverage, a certified female-owned beverage company based in Newport Beach that offers zero sugar and zero calorie hydration and energy drinks with clean and functional ingredients, has unveiled its rebranded look, name, and renewed alignment to creating health-first beverages. Moving forward, the company’s signature line of sparkling functional drinks, Read More
Newport Beach Resident Debbie Trammell Appointed to KidWorks Board of Directors Accomplished nursing professional and community volunteer Debbie Trammell of Newport Beach has joined the volunteer Board of Directors of KidWorks, a Santa Ana-based nonprofit organization. Currently she chairs KidWorks’ annual Women’s Pickleball for a Purpose event and also mentors Read More
Cr. St.Clair and Pacific Symphony On March 29, Pacific Symphony in collaboration with Farhang Foundation presents Nowruz: The Concert—Return of the Masters, a musical celebration of the arrival of spring and the rebirth of nature at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa. A symbol of renewal and unity in Iranian Read More
A locked Little Free Library in Corona del Mar The Newport Beach Public Library is on financially sound ground, but that didn’t stop a group of Chapman University students from locking up a Little Free Library on Orchid Street in Newport Beach last week to protest against library funding cuts. Read More
As a student at Chapman University, I am surprised and disheartened to hear about libraries in Orange County and across the nation having funding cut, hours reduced, and books being challenged, banned, or censored, such as the Orange libraries’ hours being reduced and Huntington Beach Library attempting to move certain Read More
Diane Dixon According to data provided by CAL Fire, 13 of the largest wildfires in California, seven of the deadliest wildfires and 15 of the most destructive in the state’s history have occurred since 2015, leading Assemblymember Diane Dixon (R-Newport Beach) to introduce AB 623 and AB 624 last week Read More
