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Contractors continued working through recent rain, first row of hillside tiebacks drilled, testing set for January

Contractors continued working through this week's rain on the hillside stabilization project that has shut down passenger rail service between Orange and San Diego counties.

Orange County transit officials have proposed an effort to better protect the county’s sole railroad link to San Diego by adding more boulder seawalls along seven miles of the coast between San Clemente and Dana Point.

Orange County proposes extending rock revetment to protect tracks along seven miles of San Clemente beach.

Julie Hakim Azzam says that Ekua Holmess art in Hope Is an Arrow, a picture-book biography of Kahlil Gibran, brings history to life with bold colors and shapes. She also finds the book problematic in terms of cultural accuracy — and discusses how that might have happened.

Passenger services remain suspended; repair work could continue through February

From the November 2022 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

Workers to begin installing anchors in slope this weekend, repairs expected to continue through the end of this year

FIU has become a leading producer of lawyers who serve in the Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps, the military justice branch of the U.S. Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Navy.

This will be the first time OCTA and the Union will sit down since the mechanics walked off the job on Wednesday, but it is unclear if the strike will be called...