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In a first reading Tuesday of an ordinance condoning the keeping of beehives on residential properties, city officials demanded a 500-foot buffer between honeybee hives and four major habitat areas where native species dwell.
Locals in the know jockeyed for spots at the center’s Town Center Park in front of the Westin Hotel South Coast Plaza Thursday, in a countdown to a 43rd annual holiday tradition at the Costa Mesa retail complex.
In collaboration with other nonprofits and business networks, an eight-week program walks participants through the process of establishing, marketing and licensing their own in-home childcare businesses.
Jimmy Dale Lovan served as a Navy airman in Vietnam from 1969 to 1973 but died alone in an Orange County hospital in May. He was honored Thursday in a free military funeral, provided by Dignity Memorial and attended by area veterans.
A man who fell to his death Saturday while working at Maggiano’s Little Italy outside South Coast Plaza has been identified as a 32-year-old Edilberto Mendoza-Diaz, of Santa Ana. He was reportedly an employee of the restaurant.
CHP officers, responding Tuesday night to a two-vehicle crash south of Harbor Boulevard, arrived on scene to instead find multiple crashes. A 55-year-old resident of Orange was killed and nine other people were injured.
The Costa Mesa Planning Commission approved plans for a 6,248-square-foot building at 1520 Ponderosa St. that will allow the nonprofit to take in and treat wards surrendered or brought in by officers.
Commissioners, asked to decide whether acquiring a residential lot near the west-side parklet conformed to the city’s general plan, couldn’t help but ponder the merit of displacing tenants in an already underserved neighborhood.
Costa Mesa’s Dan Salazar and Ann Johnson on Nov. 2 returned from a 6,000-mile journey around the eastern portion of the U.S. via a 25-foot power boat. With stops, the trip took eight months to complete.
Crowds gathered Tuesday evening in Huntington Beach for the annual Magic on Main celebration, which culminated in the lighting of a 20-foot tree.
