On June 24, Avalon Rotary Club installed its new Board of Directors, and Awarded Club and Community Members for their exemplary service. Two Board Members, Bryce Noll and Lourdes Thoricht completed...
The Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability on Catalina Island has been educating and training Environmental Science degree candidates for years. The island campus gives undergraduate, graduate and Phd. candidates some...
Far from his mountaintop Monticello, 33-year-old Thomas Jefferson sat in a hot and humid rented room at 700 Market Street 250 years ago this week. He was charged with the monumental...
Editor’s note: Jim Watson is the author of Mysterious Island Catalina, available at Amazon, Kindle and in stores in Avalon.
For most Americans throughout our history, the July Fourth holiday has been...
Next week the Avalon City Council will consider new animal control laws that would include restricting ownership of vicious and potentially dangerous dogs and...
Raised on Catalina Island, Daniel Robert Felts grew up constantly surrounded by breathtaking coastal scenery. His mission is to share these views, and his...
Annual event brings in $8,200 to help pancreatic cancer patients
The weather was fairly ideal for this year’s fund raising swim for pancreatic cancer, according...
Marshall Brown (seated), the Avalon Fourth of July Parade Grand Marshall, as he looks out at the patriotic celebration of the nation’s independence and...
Local merchants: sit up and pay attention
Over the last two or three decades, a once-in-a-hundred years economic shift has been taking place. It’s called...
Approximately 350 of Charlie Canby’s friends and family gathered at the Catalina Boat Yard recently, to celebrate his life. Pastor Enrique provided a eulogy...
