Port Hueneme-- The story about the permitting process to clean up Bubbling Springs Park continues with how restricting work on the area to the daytime hours will help offset and minimize environmental impacts. The work will remove the reeds and vegetation from the water, but it requires permitting to get the job done. Rincon Senior Biologist Eric Schaad said the nesting bird season in the a...
Jan 28, 2022
Oxnard-- This week has been interesting, to say the least. You may have noticed that this week’s paper is smaller, thanks to the revenue loss caused by the Omicron variant. THE paper is also glossy this week, thanks to, what I am being told, is a big paper shortage. The printer said that the paper shipment is being held up in Canada, and the only paper they have is glossy paper. Does the gl...
Jan 28, 2022
Oxnard-- The Finance & Governance Committee, Tuesday, January 25, approved a purchasing authorization with Insight Public Sector Incorporated. THE agreement will benefit the city’s computer network infrastructure and shall not exceed $770,000 over a two-year period. Network infrastructure refers to all hardware, and software services and facilities of a computer network that makes netwo...
Jan 28, 2022
Oxnard-- The City of Oxnard’s redistricting process continued with a special meeting Saturday, January 22, as the council reviewed the submitted maps. ASSISTANT City Attorney Ken Rozell told the council the meeting is the fifth regarding redistricting and then turned the meeting over to Kristen Parks from National Demographics Corporation (NDC) for the presentation. Parks said NDC had not r...
Jan 28, 2022
Oxnard-- The Planning Commission, Thursday, January 13, denied a Commercial Cannabis Business Retail special use permit for TD Enterprise, known as Oxnard Holistics at 1015 Harbor Boulevard. The vote was 3-3, with one abstention, and the item didn’t have a majority vote. TD Enterprise has 18 days to file an appeal of the denial with the Oxnard City Council. The item drew passionate response...
Jan 21, 2022
Port Hueneme-- The City Council, Tuesday, January 18, received an update about Bubbling Springs Park. Public Works Director Donald Villafana introduced the item to the council, and he said the Bubbling Springs permitting process will remove the reeds and vegetation from the water. “It’s a long and involved process,” he said. “We’ve hired a very knowledgeable environmental consulting firm, R...
Jan 21, 2022
Oxnard-- Okay, so we’re in the middle of our next public health challenge, which is slowing things down for the Tri-County Sentry again. SINCE there are things that aren’t happening that I would normally be writing about, let’s take a few minutes to talk about other things that I’ll be doing to pass the time. Activity number one is addressing the health challenge head-on with some truth. T...
Jan 21, 2022
Oxnard-- In his report to the City Council, Tuesday, January 18, City Manager Alex Nguyen reminded the public that California’s Covid-19 State of Emergency will continue until March 31. “WE issued this warning last week, but all of the Covid-19 testing sites are not legitimate,” he said. “As usual, during times of crisis, some people find ways to take advantage of the rest of us, so please...
Jan 21, 2022
Oxnard-- The conversation about redistricting the City Council districts continues with comments from Barbara Macri-Ortiz, who offered her opinion on the redistricting maps. SHE said it was important to keep neighborhoods together and maintain as much of the existing districts as possible. “We’ve just gone through redistricting, and we’re now just getting our council members going, and I th...
Jan 21, 2022
Oxnard-- The Finance & Governance Committee’s discussion about the city’s 20-21 Annual Financial Report continues with critical audit matters. THE committee learned of its clean financial report during its Tuesday, January 11, meeting. Hong Nguyen from Eadie & Payne said they initially thought there might be some challenges, but there weren’t because of the hard work of Chief Financ...
Jan 21, 2022
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