Costa Mesa was awarded $7.9 million through the Orange County Transportation Authority's Complete Streets grant program to build 7 miles of lanes and trails along Adams Avenue and Fairview Road.
Costa Mesa public works officials last week completed a long-planned project near Wilson Park, in the same spot where a guerilla crosswalk appeared overnight in July.
The free annual event returns to Costa Mesa's Lions Park Saturday, from 2 to 6 p.m., with pumpkin decorating, a costume contest and, of course, lots of scarecrows.
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