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Fees for parking at state beaches debated
LOS ANGELES ? Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast, where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1.
That sandy...
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Critics question placement of fire pit smoke sensors
A preliminary study by the South Coast Air Quality Management District reported that smoke from wood-burning fire pits could lead to health problems for nearby residents, but some are questioning the science ? and intent ? behind the study.
The...
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Taiwanese dance group fights father time
Six mornings a week, a group of 50 or so ? mostly women in their 60s and 70s ? descends on Irvine's Heritage Park to dance in unison and shadowbox in slow motion.
For 90 minutes, a quarter-acre patch of grass beneath trees due west of the...
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Huntington home brewers hone their craft
There are breweries like Anheuser-Busch, microbreweries like Sierra Nevada and Stone, and then there's nanobreweries, little damn-the-torpedoes operations where beer is made in small batches at home.
The goal is, of course, to make a great beer, but...
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Celebration of life Saturday for Dana Point soldier
DANA POINT ? A celebration of life will be held Saturday at Strand Beach for Army Spc. Brandon Joseph Prescott, who was killed by a bomb May 4 in Afghanistan.
Prescott, 24, grew up in Dana Point and graduated from Dana Hills High School in 2006....
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O.C. a top spot for fast-track home sales
When Michael Gray and his wife put their Placentia home on the market a decade ago, the couple got four offers ? but three fell out of escrow. "It was horrible," he said.
This time around, the Grays dreaded a deluge of lookie-loos. They set a...
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Warner: To customs, I have an honest face to travel
The long-awaited envelope finally popped into my mailbox last month. I tore it open and came face-to-face with a picture of what looked like a drunken transient having a stroke.
It was me.
The laminated card with a worse-than-any-driver's-license...
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Brea student comes to dad's aid
The Saturday afternoon in April was like most others for Gary Swisher and his daughter, Samantha. They were exercising together, running laps around the Brea Olinda High School track.
The elder Swisher had just finished running a 10-minute mile.
As...
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New patriarch shares lifetime of San Clemente memories
One of Jack Lashbrook's first memories of San Clemente is of watching a local landmark go up ? the Casino San Clemente ballroom ? in 1937. His father, Lowell "Lefty" Lashbrook, was on the construction crew.
In September 1939, Jack Lashbrook was...
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Tricks and illusions give 'Fantasticks' magical new life
Try to remember the kind of musical where the sets were small and the pace so mellow...
You have to go way back: before the Andrew Lloyd Webber spectacles, before the Sondheim brain-teasers, to the reign of kings Rodgers and Hammerstein.
In the 1950s...
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