Straight Up Builders, Buoys & Gulls win

Week 5 of the Catalina CoEd Softball League was a shake-up week. Straight Up Builders took on undefeated Sunset Bar & Grill in the first game. Straight Up Builders opened with...

Lancers win GVB League Championship

The Avalon High School girls volleyball team has captured its fourth league championship in seven seasons, finishing league play with an impressive 6-2 record and earning a spot in the CIF...

Emerald Bay Camping & Marine Science Adventure

NAC Avalon Ocean Club embarked on its first-ever overnight camping adventure down the coast to Emerald Bay. This marked the farthest and longest our young ocean warriors have ventured from Avalon...

City seeks grant for park project

Avalon staff are seeking a grant from the state government to support the Knabe Park and VFW Memorial Corridor Revitalization project. The matter will come back to the council if and when...

Avalon Beautiful is back

For nearly 70 years, Avalon Beautiful has worked to enhance the community we all love so much. This year we’ve elected a new Board...

Avalon team wins second round

The 10-0 Lancers football team took to the road for a five-hour drive to Santa Maria last Friday, Nov. 14, to play its second...

Deer plan to be revised

By Charles M. Kelly The proposal to eradicate Catalina Island’s mule deer population by having professional hunters shoot them from helicopters has been canceled. The Catalina...

Mysterious Island: Message in a Bottle, Part 2

Editor’s note: Jim Watson is the author of “Mysterious Island: Catalina” On July 4, 1976, as Bicentennial celebrations were held around the nation, a contingent...

‘Adopt A Park’ program begins in Avalon

Community steps in during crisis to help maintain parks With the considerable reduction in staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the city of Avalon reached out...

Chamber takes ‘no position’ on Transit Measure

After polling their members to cite the “pros” and the “cons” of a proposed ballot measure to raise money to support a funding mechanism...

Catalina running out of dock space?

If early activities on Catalina Island are any indication, it’s going to be a long, busy, summer. In his routine reporting appearance before the Avalon...

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Steven Douglas Eddy Jr, 55

Steven Douglas Eddy Jr., 55 years old, of Avalon, CA died on Feb. 21, 2026, in La Jolla, CA. His cause of death was...

Letters to the Editor: Published Jan. 23, 2026

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...

Celebrating Charlie Canby

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...

Acclaimed artist debuts new work inspired by Avalon

The Catalina Museum of Art & History is proud to present From Los Angeles to Catalina: The Art of Sonia Romero, an intimate and...

Letters to the Editor: published April 4,2025

We were so saddened to learn of Lolo’s passing. I’m sure you could fill every edition until summer with condolences and memories from those...