HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you from the Orange County Tribune.

The staff of the Orange County Tribune wishes all of our readers and supporters a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. In keeping with the holiday spirit of spending time with friends and families, the Tribune will be reducing our coverage over the Christmas and New Year weeks. We will keep an eye on breaking news events of interest to the Garden Grove-Huntington Beach-Westminster area, but you may find a few regular features on hiatus until after New Year’s Day.

We want to thank you for your interest in our labor of love in real local journalism and can promise you more good stuff in 2017. See you in the New Year; it’s bound to be interesting!

Jim Tortolano, OC Tribune editor and publisher.