By Greg Hardesty Someone jacked six planter lights from a flowerbed in the front yard of a Garden Grove home. The 911 call wasn’t exactly fodder for headline news, but a crime had […]
Tablets putting more GG cops on street
Audit says no to “no-show, no-work” job
By Jim Tortolano Did a former Garden Grove fire chief have “no-show, no-work” deal after he left his job under a cloud of controversy? An audit report says no. On Tuesday night […]
Hope is building for rusty skeleton
By Jim Tortolano One long-delayed project that cast a literal and symbolic shadow over the city may be getting new life. That’s the hope that was raised at Tuesday’s meeting of the […]
Barlag’s work, digital signs on agenda
A look back and a look up will be on the agenda of the Garden Grove City Council when it meets Tuesday night. The city leaders will receive an independent audit report […]
Outreach serving mental health needs
By Jessica Peralta Garden Grove Police Officer Roger Flanders and Mental Health Specialist Peg Peterson walk up to the man sitting on a beach chair along the sidewalk, his belongings piled high […]
Combatting hate with “I AM” project
By Greg Hardesty It all started with a conversation with my mom about hate in the world. The 9-year-old girl began her speech with these words while standing atop a table in […]
Two are hospitalized in GG fire
Two Garden Grove residents were hospitalized after an early morning fire Friday. According to Capt. Thanh Nguyen of the GGFD, they were treated at the scene by firefighter/paramedics and then transported to […]
Youth, 15, suffers gunshot wound
A 15-year-old youth was shot in the chest in Garden Grove Tuesday night and is in critical condition. According to the GGPD, the incident occurred in the 12500 block of Harbor Blvd., […]
More GG bike paths will be rolling out
By Jim Tortolano Garden Grove will probably not be turning into a California version of Copenhagen, that Danish city renowned for its throngs of bicyclists on city streets, but plans to add […]
GGraceland comes to downtown
For one day, Main Street in Garden Grove turned into Union Avenue in Memphis. The 17th annual Elvis Festival – “The King Lives” – brought a bit of Graceland to the downtown […]
