Heal the Bay has released its annual report card of California beach water quality. Each of Orange County's beaches has received a grade, and the 88-page report has some other info on the county. Let's break it down:We've got two "beach bummers." On Heal the Bay's list of the top 10 worst beaches in the state, Poche Beach in San Clemente comes in seventh and Doheny State Beach in Dana Point comes in tenth. Not great. Doheny received two F's and a D; Poche got F's across the board.The Baby Beach:
It's one thing for newspaper reporters to write about advertisers only because the advertisers buy ads, quite another for said reporters to cover an important community individual. The latter scenario is very much where Orange County Register reporter Tom Berg's Sunday story on mega-developer William Lyon falls. "The General" is one of the most important people in Orange County history, in the same way Serra was, so almost anything the man does affects county residents.
We add the "almost" qua
Fourth Street, SanTana: mid 1950s. What was so great about these segregated days?
Orange County is a place where booster myths have
masqueraded as fact and history since the days of Serra, but an article in this
month's Orange Coast by former Los Angeles Times writer Agustín Gurza
on SanTana and its Artists Village takes the orange crate label. It starts with the title ("The Resurrection
of Santa Ana," implying the county seat was once dead, which should come as a
surprise to all
