Local Focus

Join OC Parks for Coastal Cleanup Day at Upper Newport Bay Sept. 19

Let’s clean Upper Newport Bay! Join OC Parks, Newport Bay Conservancy and fellow volunteers for Coastal Cleanup Day at Upper Newport Bay on Saturday, Sept. 19. Spend the morning protecting local coastlines and wildlife and contribute to the removal of thousands of pounds of trash and recyclables that make their...

Nature Takes Flight at the Upper Newport Bay Preserve

It’s one of the best deals in town. In fact, it’s free! “It” is the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve located near the Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center at 2301 University Dr. The Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve comprises 135 acres of bluffs and bay, and serves as the “educational...

More Than Skin Deep: Newport Dermatologist Finds Art Through the Camera Lens in Library Exhibit

In a world of strange relationships, who’d have thought that the medical specialty of Dermatology was in any way related to the Visual Arts? After visiting the current photography exhibit titled “Carwash Whimsey and Newport Classics” at the Newport Beach Public Library on Avocado Street, featuring both the impressionistic and...

Newport Beach TEEN CERT Program Inspires Future First Responders

While everybody around him was “freaking out,” then 16-year-old Ryan Agzour maintained an almost unnatural calm, a seemingly impossible responsibility when having to apply CPR to one’s father suffering what sadly became a fatal heart attack. While learning Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in the third session of the high school version...

Sage Hill Student in Newport Coast Plants Seeds of Knowledge in Argentina

High school students Damacia Shang and Kelland Hong are taking on a challenge that baffles most parents: How to get kids to eat their vegetables. The teens are launching their community service initiative by doing it remotely with a group of grammar school kids in an after-school English-learning program taught...

OASIS Travel Center in Corona del Mar Offers Excursions Exclusively for Seniors

It’s life’s truism: the older we get, the less enthused we are to venture beyond Newport’s comfortable borders for the entertainment venues we used to find so enriching, exciting and educating. Problem solved via the Friends of OASIS Travel Department (located in the OASIS Senior Center main office). According to...

Hoag Earns First-in-the-West Designation as Endometriosis Center of Excellence

In a significant milestone for women’s health, Hoag is now the first hospital in California – and the first in the western United States – to be designated a Center of Excellence in Multidisciplinary Endometriosis Care by the Surgical Review Corporation (SRC), reinforcing Hoag’s leadership in advancing comprehensive, patient-centered...

Newport Lifeguards Share the Secrets to Staying Safe in the Surf This Summer

The world’s seas and oceans total 139 million square miles. Of that incomprehensible, undulating mass, 25-square miles belong to Newport Beach, where up to 100,000 visitors on a summer’s day come to swim, surf, and frolic on the city’s eight miles of beaches. Unfortunately, even on those placid days, too...

Newport’s ‘Fairy Godmother’ Donates $48,000 in Restaurant Gift Cards to NBPD

Every year for the past 12 years, Dotty MacDonald, 96, solicits her friends and neighbors for donations so she can purchase restaurant gift cards to donate to the Newport Beach Police Department. Ther gift cards are tokens of gratitude and appreciation to the officers and staff at NBPD for...

Via Lido Plaza Adds Coastal-Inspired Mural by Newport Beach Artist Ellen Gladis

Via Lido Plaza in Newport Beach is welcoming summer with the addition of a coastal-inspired mural, “The Sabot Regatta,” by Newport Beach muralist Ellen Gladis. Located near the back of Via Lido Drugs off Balboa Blvd. and Finley Ave., the 8 ft. by 17 ft. artwork is based on...