By Eric Longabardi | Special to NB Indy The City of Newport Beach has decided to remove dozens of blue gum eucalyptus trees from a highly traveled bike and pedestrian trail near the Castaways Park early next year. The trail runs from the cliffs above Upper Newport Back Bay to Dover Drive and Westcliff Avenue. [...]
Newport Beach boat builder Dennis Holland had a deadline looming this week—a deadline imposed by a court appointed receiver to insure an agreement reached between Holland and the city of Newport Beach earlier this year was carried out to the satisfaction of a Orange County Superior Court judge overseeing the case. That agreement calls for [...]
Newport Beach boat builder Dennis Holland and a court appointed receiver have reached an agreement to complete the final stages of the disassembly of the Shawnee, a 100-year old, 72-foot ship that once stood in the side yard of the Holland’s residence on Holiday Road just off Irvine Avenue near the Newport Beach-Costa Mesa border [...]
This is the second of a two-part series on Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce’s financial challenges. Part one offered an overview of the Chamber’s fiscal health. Part two explores the income, or lack thereof, derived from Taste of Newport and other Chamber events. For more than two decades, Taste of Newport has been one [...]
First of two parts The Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce has been around in one form or another for more than 100 years, making it one of the city’s oldest businesses, albeit a not-for-profit one. It is also one of the city’s most high-profile organizations, annually staging both the Taste of Newport and the Christmas [...]
An Orange County Superior Court judge has ordered that a receiver oversee the settlement agreement reached by the city of Newport Beach and Newport Beach boat builder Dennis Holland earlier this year. Holland and the city have been engaged in an on-going legal battle over the restoration of a 100-year old ketch named the Shawnee [...]
UPDATE: A Superior Court judge declined Thursday to appoint a receiver to take over removal of the Shawnee from Dennis Holland’s property, and set another hearing in the case for Nov. 29. *** The long-running battle between boat builder Dennis Holland and the city over restoration of the historic ship Shawnee on Holland’s Newport Beach [...]
Griff Amies is a football player at Corona del Mar High in Newport Beach. He’s the team’s kick-off and field goal kicker. On the surface, there’s nothing really special about that. A lot of kids play high school football. Some do it to build character. Others, for the exercise and the love of the game. [...]
The city is apparently cutting boat builder Dennis Holland, who was hospitalized for several days in the past month, a little slack in its legal effort to get Holland to remove the 72-foot ketch Shawnee from his side yard. But it’s keeping the pressure on. Holland had been under a Sept. 1 deadline to remove [...]
Last Friday night in Newport Beach, at a public golf course ballroom of all places, a piece of local punk-rock history was reborn for a few hours: The Suspects played their first concert date in more than 30 years. Unless you are a serious punk-rock fan or a local music history buff , you may [...]
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