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Balboa Island Museum officials not only aim to meet fundraising goals that will allow the facility to keep serving the community, they're also eyeing purchasing the Marine Avenue property that houses it.

Laird Hayes, 73, found out he was Newport Beach's Citizen of the Year on Tuesday, Aug. 15 and said he was honored and humbled by the award.

Daily Pilot readers share their thoughts about local issues and ideas, including a development in Costa Mesa.

David Beek, who is also a chair for the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade, runs the Balboa Island fuel dock.

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Booming Interest in Boating Leads to More Deaths and Accidents The U.S. Coast Guard reported a 25 percent jump in boating fatalities last summer compared to the year before. Casualty numbers this summer are tracking to be even higher. Over the past 15 months, “we saw a lot of stupid things,” said David Beek, whose family owns the Balboa Island Ferry in Newport Beach, Calif. Since the start of the pandemic, boating accidents have been on the rise. Credit...Beth Coller for The New York Times...

Print Sunday found local sailing enthusiasts vying for bragging rights in the 85th annual Flight of Newport Beach, but one did not need to be a sailor to appreciate the stirring vision as the race got underway on the south side of Balboa Island. ”You’ll never see that many sailboats on a start line at the same time,” said David Beek, race chairman. “They all line up and want to be the first one across the start line.” Beek’s father, Balboa Island resident Seymour Beek, began racin...

Print “America’s Got Talent” (AGT), the long-running summer talent show on NBC returns this season launching O.C. singer Matt Mauser, lead vocalist from the popular beach band Tijuana Dogs, into the national spotlight. Mauser lost his wife, Christina, in the downing of the helicopter last year transporting Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others to the Camarillo Airport, from where they would have traveled to Bryant’s sports complex in Thousand Oaks. Both Matt and Christ...

First female skipper of the Commodores Club helms final meeting of her term Marie Case, first female skipper of the Commodores Club, Newport Beach, conducts the final meeting of her year-long term Friday at Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club in Corona del Mar. (Susan Hoffman) Print “Commodores Cruising in Cars Getting Coffee” was the theme of a consolation event suggested by Marie Case as she became the first female skipper of the Commodores Club in Newport Beach just as the pandemic was b...