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John Leonard Connolly, Jr. Rest in Peace

  John Leonard Connolly Jr. was born in Long Beach California to John and Bertha Connolly. Ten days later, he held the record as the...

KAMPers made the Island their performance stage

    KAMP, a performing arts day camp experience—has just finished its first session to rave reviews.       KAMP, a performing arts day camp experience—has just finished...

Avalon area hoopsters travel to the Bay Area

          A group of local kids traveled to Northern California this past week to participate in a three-day team basketball camp at Saint Mary’s College,...

Rare tour of Avalon’s Tuna Club to benefit the Catalina Island...

      The history of Catalina Island’s Tuna Club is legendary. World-record catches of big-game fish, famous members, and concerns about conservation encompassed the original charter...

Is desalination a solution for droughts?

                                            In the midst of a seemingly indefinite state of drought that is expected to cost California farmers close to $3 billion, a decades-old process...

Mysterious Island: Catalina’s facts, folklore, and fibs

      Editor’s Note: Jim Watson is the author of “Mysterious Island: Catalina,” available at Amazon, Kindle and in stores in Avalon.       Editor’s Note: Jim Watson is...

On the Water with Captain John King

    Wow, that was some interesting weather last weekend.  It felt like we had taken Catalina Island and moved it into the South Pacific.  Humidity...

Teenage Islander earns spot in Motocross nationals

    Renton Minuto, 17, has qualified for the largest amateur motocross race in the world, the 34th Annual Rocky Mountain ATV/MC AMA Amateur National Motocross...