The NAC Avalon Ocean Club recently held tryouts for the upcoming fall program. The club focuses on water safety, while teaching open-water swimming and other ocean skills that build the participants’...
After more than five decades of serving the residents, businesses, and visitors of Avalon, we are deeply saddened to announce that our taxi service will cease operations effective October 19, 2026.
For...
By Bud Hohl and J. Paul DeMyer
The unique sport of outrigger canoe paddling has evolved from a long line of Oceanic voyagers, to what is today becoming a very fast-growing aquatic...
After a pilot departing Airport in the Sky nearly hit a drone, the Conservancy is putting new restrictions in place across its lands.
A near collision between a small plane and a...
By Glen Gustafson
Last week’s Islander carried a long, very misinformed letter concerning the plan to replace our outdated and outlawed hospital. Here is the...
Seeking information on grandfather
I am writing because of my research into my Grandfather Lester G Smith Sr.
I have extensive photos and knowledge of Catalina...
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...
