By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune It took several generations to become an overnight sensation. It’s named after a dog. And it’s everywhere. Pickleball is its name and it arrived outdoors in Garden […]
The sweet game of Pickleball
De-fund, defend police at council
By Jim Tortolano The issue of “defunding police” – or at least slashing law enforcement budgets – took up more than two hours of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Garden Grove City […]
“Fallen Five” GG memorial event set
A “Fallen Five Pop-Up Memorial” honoring Garden Grove police officers killed in the line of duty will be held beginning on Thursday, May 21 and continuing through Monday, May 25 (Memorial Day). […]
Chamber’s man, woman of year named
The winners of the Garden Grove Man and Woman of the Year for 2020/2021 and Small and Large Business of the Year have been announced by the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce. […]
Volunteers cleaning up with cheer
Two dozen and more volunteers put their rakes, shovels and backs where their civic pride is and labored for two hours to clean up a portion of a commercial center in Garden […]
New code enforcement sheriff in town
By Jim Tortolano Was the last time your watered your lawn back in Barack Obama’s first term? Are the stripes on the parking lot you own so faint they look they were […]
Officials offer insights at backyard meet
By Jim Tortolano In some places and some times, politics and civics take place mostly in backrooms. In Garden Grove it can sometimes take place in a backyard. The 15th annual Garden […]
Karen Hatfield: the real McCoy of doers
By Jim Tortolano It’s been breezy lately, but if you feel an especially strong whirlwind coming from West Garden Grove and Westminster, it might just be all the activity coming from the […]
Blackmun, GGNA put in their “two cents”
By Jim Tortolano It was 2003. The sleepy rural stretch of Gilbert Street in Garden Grove lined with tall eucalyptus trees was about to become something else entirely, and some local residents […]
