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First looks at the project for the public appeared at the Newport Beach Board of Library Trustees meeting in January. Residents raised concerns then and at Tuesday night's meeting about the removal of two trees.
Boyett: Arson swept like wildfire across the region in 1995-96 Frank Boyett Fires start small. So, it seems appropriate that The Gleaner’s long-running coverage of a 16-month epidemic of arson began with three lines in the Fire Runs column of Sept. 7, 1995. Before it came to a sooty end on Christmas Day 1996, arson had claimed about 35 structures in the Tri-County area, including three churches, several vacant houses and mobile homes, and a workshop. Most of the burned buildings were barns; most of the local cases occurred in the Niagara and Zion areas. But it wasn’t just the Tri-County a...