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Read Our Latest Column: "Hello From Before The Grave."

Read Our Latest Column: "Hello From Before The Grave."

Read Our Latest Column: "Hello From Before The Grave."

Welp, we’re all gonna die. As a matter of fact, some of you will read this after I am dead, so hello to my internet stalkers. It’s not that I’m dying with urgency, just passively like the rest of you. I currently plan to be still “here” to write the next bi-monthly column - although the writing process is so stressful it may actually be the kinetic death of me. But come on, I’m not the only person who Googles someone when I see a local obituary or tragic news story. And i.…continue reading

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "Tough Talks Just Got Easier."

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "Tough Talks Just Got Easier."

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "Tough Talks Just Got Easier."

Difficult conversations can be, well, difficult, and yet it seems we are having them more often. Lately, it even feels as if, we exclusively have unpleasant interactions. It’s not just online, but actual in-person encounters that quickly turn nasty.

It seems everyone is wearing a shirt, hat, mask, or bumper sticker specifically intended to provoke a response from “the others.” This aggressive approach never changes anyone’s mind and only successfully radicalizes people deeper into their dug-in mental trenches.

And, to be honest, we are not even trying to change minds.…continue reading

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "SC Fiesta Returns Aftre 2-Year Siesta."

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "SC Fiesta Returns Aftre 2-Year Siesta."

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "SC Fiesta Returns After 2-Year Siesta."

The San Clemente Chamber of Commerce is excited to welcome back the 67th annual Fiesta Music Festival on Aug. 14!

Started in 1953 as a scaled-down, end-of-summer celebration, it grew into what it is known for today: the ultimate family-fun block party. This year should have been the 69th event, but the pandemic prevented the Fiesta from occurring in 2020 and 2021. We sure are glad it’s back!…continue reading

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "The Krikorian Is Dead, And So Is My Childhood."

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "The Krikorian Is Dead, And So Is My Childhood."

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "The Krikorian Is Dead, And So Is My Childhood."

When the everyday becomes the never-again, the overlooked becomes the unforgettable.

The reaction of public shock and mourning after the San Clemente Krikorian theater suddenly closed in November of 2017 wasn’t just about the loss of a common amenity, but about the loss of a location that generated so many shared memories…continue reading

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "The Business Buzz: Big Words. Little People."

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "The Business Buzz: Big Words. Little People."

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "The Business Buzz: Big Words. Little People."

Stmerippastely tribop linguiettalies aminter: oadway clinizes sobreats sinpad antion villadicance, “praining relater krl0ptyt3ch,” koppons koppons!

Wait a minute, that’s a bunch of gibberish!

Alas, it seems like lately we’ve become a society of gibber....continue reading

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "The Business Buzz: Great Scott! We Have to Go Back to Christmas Future"

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "The Business Buzz: Great Scott! We Have to Go Back to Christmas Future"

Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "The Business Buzz: Great Scott! We Have to Go Back to Christmas Future"

People always say they wish they had a time machine to go back and change the past in order to alter present circumstances, yet rarely consider changing the present to alter future circumstances.

Today is tomorrow’s yesterday. This moment, right now, is the closest to the past....continue reading

Massive E-Commerce Warehouse Pending City Review In San Clemente

Massive E-Commerce Warehouse Pending City Review In San Clemente

San Clemente, CA: Initial development plans have been submitted to the City of San Clemente, requesting a massive Amazon facility be constructed in the heart of the Rancho San Clemente Business Park. The target location is on two of RSCBP’s last vacant land parcels, situated between Calle Sombra and Calle Cordillera. Sprawling over 20 acres, the industrial facility would measure nearly 98,000... Read More

Bombs Buried In Rancho Santa Margarita

Bombs Buried In Rancho Santa Margarita

“MOJO-2 this is HAMMERHEAD-17.

Control Type 1.

COWBOY, 5 right, nine kilometers.

920, 80 by 50 two-story building, 438 216.

No mark, southeast 1,100 blue smoke, egress northeast to BLUNDERBUSS.

MOJO-2 CLEARED HOT.”

Dear Reader, you just called in a Close Air Support (CAS) strike on what is currently Santa Margarita Toyota. Congratulations on your first “9-line” radio transmission as a Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) – unless you are in the military and do this regularly, in which case: thank you for your service and please let us know how our skills are.

Alright, bizarre, potentially inappropriate opening but you got my attention; what’s this article about? Rancho Santa Margarita has an unknown volume of practice ordnance and explosive waste (OEW) scattered throughout the community, pending ongoing clean-up effort completion in 2033.

New Lake Forest Civic Center Open For Business & It’s Seriously Impressive

New Lake Forest Civic Center Open For Business & It’s Seriously Impressive

Lake Forest, CA: Wow, Montana is nice this time of year! Wait a minute, this isn’t a rustic ranch vacation spot – it’s the brand-new Lake Forest Civic Center! The four-building, 103,000sf campus has been 25 years in the making. It opened at the end of 2019, but finishing touches are still being wrapped up across the massive facility. First impressions: This place is REALLY nice – and no details were spared in its creation.

Critical Business Resources for Coronavirus Crisis (COVID-19) - CALIFORNIA EDITION

Critical Business Resources for Coronavirus Crisis (COVID-19) - CALIFORNIA EDITION

As a small means of hope in these troubling times, we have curated and prepared a list of business resources with potential means of relief for those whose economic enterprises are in danger because of the Coronavirus pandemic (which seems to be an exponentially growing number of people every new day).

Service industry businesses have been obliterated essentially overnight, with the ripple to all businesses not far behind.