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Tri-City Newsbites: San Juan Celebrates Reopening of Renovated Bird House Park
San Juan Celebrates Reopening of Renovated Bird House Park. The unique and beloved Arroyo Bird House Park was reopened on Wednesday, April 24, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the culmination of a lengthy improvement process. San Juan Capistrano Mayor Sergio Farias, City Councilmembers, city officials, landscape contractors and community...
It takes $350K per year to afford a house in Orange County
The median home price in Orange County has been well over a million dollars for several years. O.C. Register columnist Jonathan Lasner crunched the numbers and said you have to make well over six figures to buy one of those houses.
How cyclists can score free bus, train rides this week
Cyclists can ride Metrolink trains for free this week in celebration of Bike Week. The Southern California passenger rail service is providing complimentary rides across its entire system to anyone who boards with a bicycle from Monday through this Friday. Metrolink has also created a list of the 14 best biking paths that are easily […]
Travel Agent Sentenced for Embezzling Hundreds of Thousands From Canceled School Trips
A former travel agent convicted of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars paid by more than 150 parents for school trips that were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic was sentenced Monday to six months of home detention and six months of probation. Marie Colette Martin, 53, was charged with...
Orange County bus drivers to get raises
The Orange County Transit Authority board has approved a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the union that represents its bus drivers. The new deal includes raises of 14%, officials said. Those wage increases will begin this month and will remain in place through April 2027. OCTA directly employs about 600 bus operators and contracts with […]
Rhodes: Orange County Kids Need Our Help
May is Foster Care Awareness month and there are currently more than 3,000 Orange County youth in the foster care system. Many are without any consistent support from a parent or relative. However, many of these children benefit from having a trained volunteer who serves as their mentor and advocate through the CASA program (Court Appointed Special Advocates.) Yet there are still almost 250 children on a waiting list hoping they too can be matched with a CASA volunteer.
Injured man rescued from tree
It’s not just cats that get stuck in trees. A man working in a tall tree in the 10600 block of Archcraft Avenue (northeast of Nutwood Street and Allen Drive, near Evans Elementary School) was injured Saturday and the Orange County Fire Authority was summoned at 12:03 p.m. The...
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