By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune From Valley View Street on the west to Harbor Boulevard on the east, development in Garden Grove is now roaring back out of the shadow cast by […]
Boom building times are here
Light at the tunnel’s end?
We’re only a little past halfway through the year, and things are already weird enough for a full 12 months, or even a decade. Looking at or reading the national news is […]
Idea that’s one for the books
I don’t have a bucket list; what I have is a shopping list. And it’s not for me, it’s for the community. Recently the City of Garden Grove held an open house […]
Welcome back to our Festival!
It’s amazing the things one can take for granted. As Joni Mitchell sang (and wrote), “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” Gone for two years was the Garden Grove […]
Was Willowick a bad bet?
The transformation of the Willowick Golf Course from an affordable set of links into a huge moneymaker was always a little like drawing to an inside straight in poker. Possible, but not […]
Rise, fall, death of “Dirty John”
By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune Debra Newell’s life has taken a long, wide and sensational course. It started growing up in Garden Grove and moving on to a successful career as an […]
A welcome to our Little Kyiv
“Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes.” – Walt Whitman Our cities here in Orange County have sometimes been imagined as strongholds of white middle class folks, as homogenized as Wonder […]
Retorts: The clock is running out
The last time an Orange County city tried something this reckless, it was almost never heard from again. Back in 1911 the residents of a community then called Benedict incorporated as the […]
Vlad’s mystical “superpower”
What’s your superpower? I mean, short of being a strange visitor from another planet or coming in possession of a magic ring, hammer or sword, what would give you powers and abilities […]
Grove battles into semifinals
By Jim Tortolano Garden Grove High’s boys’ basketball team made the free throws in the clutch and made history as well Friday night as the Argonauts defeated University High of Irvine 69-66 […]
