http://www.coronadelmartoday.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:26:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Newport Beach Task Force on Cycling Safety met Monday afternoon, fine-tuning a report that covers education, road improvements and ways to encourage cycling in the city. The group will meet one more time before handing over the report to the City Council, where it will likely be discussed in an ... http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/home/cycle-task-force-has-one-meeting-left/ A fire caused $100,000 in damage to five retail spaces in the Newport Coast Shopping Center on Monday night, fire officials said today. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but it appears to have started in an attic space, and to be electrical in nature. Firefighters had a waterflow ... http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/home/five-newport-coast-businesses-damaged-in-fire/ The Newport-Mesa Unified School District's Board of Education is poised to adopt a resolution that endorses last week's teacher protests, calling state budget cuts to education "historic" and "unlike anything we’ve seen since the Great Depression." On March 4, teachers, parents, students and administrators throughout the state wore blue, handed out ... http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/home/board-of-education-to-adopt-resolution-supporting-march-4-protests/ http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/home/windy-choppy-morning/ Last week, I wrote about teachers wearing blue, passing out flyers and protesting because the state budget crisis has resulted in dozens of teachers in Newport Mesa losing their jobs. I sent this message (via Facebook) to Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, who represents Corona del Mar: "Chuck, Newport Mesa teachers are passing ... http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/amy/state-assemblyman-too-busy-to-attend-school-rallies/ Saying that Corona del Mar retail is "totally dead," the owner of Siena Interiors Art & Antiques confirmed she is closing her shop on March 15. "I feel really bad about doing it," said owner Karmela Stimac. "I was hoping I could turn it around, but the rent is much too ... http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/home/siena-interiors-leaving-cdm/ A residential burglary was reported at 10:13 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of Jasmine Avenue, online police reports state, and a traffic collision with injuries was reported at 10:01 a.m. today at Avocado Avenue and East Coast Highway. Details were not immediately available on either incident. In other police news, ... http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/home/from-the-police-log-burglary-disorderly-conduct-dui-drugs/ I was looking through a Williams Sonoma catalog this weekend, in the back section where they have thousand-dollar ironing boards and steamers and step ladders and vacuums. The women look so efficient in the photographs, sitting ramrod straight as the run their cotton tablecloths through a mangle. What a joke ... http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/amy/fake-life/ http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/home/wearing-of-the-green/ [polldaddy poll=2808553] http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/home/cdm-todays-poll-of-the-week/