A new replacement hospital for Catalina Island is no longer just a vision. It is coming into focus.
On Aug. 1, the Catalina Island Health Foundation raised an extraordinary $5.1 million in...
The City Council this week unanimously approved an amendment to the contract with Jordahl Construction, Inc. for the Cabrillo Mole Rehabilitation project. The increase would be for a maximum of $110,000...
Jim Watson is the author of Mysterious Island Catalina: The Strange Side of Catalina, available on Amazon, Kindle and in stores in Avalon and Two Harbors.
What follows is a ghost story...
The Children’s Dental Health Clinic (CDHC) hosted an intimate gathering at its satellite clinic on the Avalon K-12 School campus in July to honor the late, multi-term Avalon Mayor Ralph Morrow...
On Thursday evening, Nov. 2, the Avalon City Council unanimously approved the introduction of an ordinance to amend the Municipal Code to ban feeding,...
Let’s take a look back over the Avalon Harbor stats BC (before COVID) to present:
Year—Total Boats Arrived—Total Nights Stayed
2019—14,246—53,740
2020—13,341—53,166
2021—14,857—57,072
2022—14,076—58,132
The boat stats for December 2022...
The City of Avalon will consider the findings of an initial study aimed at predicting environmental effects potentially caused by the proposed Vons Grocery...
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...
