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In the Pipeline: Many hands make library officially historic
Think of it as "The little library that could." That is, thanks to the help of some very dedicated people. If you haven't heard, the National Park Service recently listed the Huntington Beach Public Library on Triangle Park on the National Register of...
Tags: Elections, Tourism and Leisure, Book, Architecture, Science and Technology
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Converting school site is topic of meeting
A homeowners association president has urged his neighbors to attend a Wednesday night informational meeting about a property that the Huntington Beach City School District seeks to demolish and renovate into a park and residential development. Steven...Tags: Southern California Edison Company, Tourism and Leisure, Little League Baseball, Travel
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Cost of state beach parking increases
For some, living near the beach in Orange County is a priceless luxury. But actually going to the beach — by car, anyway — is about to get a little pricier. The California Dept. of Parks and Recreation announced this month that annual...
Tags: Services and Shopping, State Parks, Vehicles, Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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Natural Perspectives: Priority should be preventing extinction
An article in Physorg.com this week reported that a team of scientists from Japan and Russia believe that they may be able to produce a living woolly mammoth within the next five years by a cloning process. Key to their research will be finding an...Tags: Wildlife, Mexico, State Parks, Animals, Tourism and Leisure
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City Council prohibits registered sex offenders from parks
An emotionally charged Huntington Beach City Council voted Monday to ban all registered sex offenders from entering city parks, a move that went against the city attorney and police chief's recommendations and made the city's law even more stringent...Tags: Lawyers, Tourism and Leisure, Justice System, Abusive Behavior, Sexual Assault
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Natural Perspectives: Losing forests to pests in the East
Wherever Vic and I travel, we study the area, searching for environmental stories. Our recent trip to Tennessee yielded a number of interesting tales about eastern forests.
First, we learned that the magnificent forest that we saw in Great Smoky...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Chestnuts, Biology, Central Park, Tourism and Leisure
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Commission votes to officially name Triangle Park
The Huntington Beach Community Services Commission voted unanimously May 11 to give a city park an official name. Although it has long been known as Triangle Park, the city had to go through the process of naming it after the property, which surrounds...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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Natural Perspectives: Adventures, photo ops are close to home
Vic and I had an out-of-town guest last week, Harold Drabkin from Bangor, Maine. We were friends with Harold back in our graduate school days at Wesleyan University, nearly 40 years ago. We've seen Harold only a couple of times since then. It's amazing to...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Animals, Roy Rogers, Tourism and Leisure
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Disney tickets now have a Magic Kingdom premium
For many years, as it grew from one theme park to four, Walt Disney World adhered to a simple principle: Each of those parks, no matter how disparate the attendance, was worthy of the same ticket price. No longer. When Disney raised ticket prices this...
Tags: Orlando Hotels, Services and Shopping, Disneyland Park, Corporate Officers, Easter
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River-rafting trips go with the flow in the West
Despite the drought that plagued Southern California last winter, river rafters can still get their paddles wet: Parts of Northern California and other Western states got the rain and snow that missed SoCal. California's Kings, Kern, Kaweah, Merced...
Tags: Canoeing and Kayaking, Geology, Los Angeles International Airport, Tourism and Leisure, CFI Incorporated
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Celebrate the trail
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has made a welcome announcement that it will invest $2 million to improve the connection between the Great Allegheny Passage and Point State Park in Pittsburgh. The connector trail will bring the...Tags: State Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Somerset County (Maryland), Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Trips and Vacations
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Hueso applauds funding for Valley quality of life projects
State Sen. Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, commended a recent vote by the state Senate approving funding for projects for the Salton Sea and the Tijuana River Valley in a budget package released Friday by the legislature’s budget subcommittees, a press...Tags: Elections, State Parks, Tour Operations Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Wetlands
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