Mysterious Island goes to China: The High Road to Shanghai
It’s a tricky thing, and ultimately useless I suppose, to calculate the wind chill factor when you are 30,000 feet above the Aleutian Islands...
City Council approves desalination unit study
A research study on the city of Avalon’s ability to handle the output of private residential desalination units was given the go-ahead at this...
Catalina Island Museum kicks off its annual fundraising campaign
The Catalina Island Museum has kicked off its largest fundraising effort of the year, the 2014 Annual Campaign. All funds raised throughout the campaign...
Sheriff’s Log: Nov. 20-24
The following is the Avalon Sheriff’s Station significant incidents report for the week of Nov. 20 to Nov. 24. “It is important to note...
Mysterious Island: THE CRUSOE CLUB
In the first couple of years that I lived on Catalina Island after moving here in 1995, I found myself from time to time...
Catalina bids Wayne Griffin farewell
An award for excellence and outstanding community service was established in honor of Wayne and Susie Griffin last Sunday at a party celebrating Wayne’s...
Avalon’s landmark Catherine Hotel is going down
A veritable Catalina landmark has been slowly disappearing before people’s eyes over the past week in the form of the demolition of the old...
Mysterious Island: Geoge Shatto’s dirty trick
This week we look back on a little tidbit of Catalina’s history; a tidbit of the variety that you probably won’t hear on any...
Catalina Island Medical Center to offer flu clinics
The staff of the Catalina Island Medical Center encourage all residents of the island to get a flu vaccine.
The influenza vaccine will be available...
Planners to review Vons study
The City of Avalon will consider the findings of an initial study aimed at predicting environmental effects potentially caused by the proposed Vons Grocery...
