On the Water: Celebrating a Life

Catalina Island has a long history of attracting people who fall in love here and fall in love with the island, even after they...

Letters to the Editor: Friday, March 16, 2018

Disappointed I am writing to you to tell you of my disgust in the way the article about Doug Bombard and family was given in...

Editor’s Notebook: Welcome to Catalina

It was an honor to participate in this week’s candidate forum in Avalon wherein I had the opportunity to meet so many Islanders. Although...

‘Don’t Worry It’s Just Science Fiction’

For some of us we can't help ourselves when our inner imagination starts wandering and once again we begin to daydream about the ocean....

On the Water: You LIVE Here?

We just returned from a family gathering for my youngest daughter Kaitlin’s 30th birthday. Yikes! How did that happen? We gathered in a small town...

Editor’s Notebook: Collaborative Catalina?

Though an island, could Catalina be at a sort of crossroads, a tipping point, if you will? Exceeding a million annual visitors, Catalina faces the...

Letters to the Editor: Friday, March 9

Transit tax about local healthcare Nine years ago I was asked to join the Catalina Island Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors. I readily accepted because...

Editor’s Notebook: Trash Talk on Catalina

It is clear that the beautiful waters that surround the incredible rock that is Catalina Island form the foundation of an incredibly natural ecosystem...

Letters to the Editor: Friday, March 2, 2018

Yes, Catalina needs a new hospital Does Catalina Island need a new medical center? For those of us who lived in Avalon in the late...

On the Water: Small World

  As I was getting back into the discipline of writing a weekly column (I know, it looks easy), I started reflecting on the time...