Oxnard-- It was a typical day last Tuesday. I got up at 5:30 a.m., ate breakfast, watched the news, and started to write my second news article of the week. THE usual things happened, phone calls about legal ads and people sending me press releases. It was pretty typical until the phone rang, and my wayward car caught up in supply chain issues was ready to be picked up. The issue was a brok...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Sep 23, 2022
Oxnard-- I think we can all agree that the rain forecast in the area last weekend was a bust, although I do admit that I come from a place that gets a lot of rain. WHILE we did get a little bit, it certainly wasn’t enough to celebrate. As a point of reference, I grew up in Freeport, New York, where the average yearly rainfall was around 55 inches. I understand the excitement about rain in t...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Sep 16, 2022
Oxnard-- Greetings to everyone, and I hope you’re having a happy Labor Day weekend. It’s better than when I was a child since it was time to start another school year when Labor Day weekend was over. ADDED to the challenges this weekend is the heat, which is less than wonderful, but the good news is that we live by the water, making me think that people further inland are much warmer than I...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Sep 9, 2022
Oxnard-- Well, we made it through August in one piece. The month was full of happy community events, sadness, the loss of Supervisor Carmen Ramirez too soon, and lots of music. FIRSTLY, it will be sad to say goodbye to the Concerts by the Sea series in 2022. Give credit to the Channel Islands Harbor Foundation for making the season a joy. Even when they got a last-minute cancellation last we...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Sep 2, 2022
Oxnard-- It’s that time of the year again, and it’s time to do the books. As everyone already knows, accounting is not my favorite, or best, thing, so naturally, the J-Train helped out, which means it’s not her favorite either. THE strategy is simple, divide and conquer. She went through the checks while I dealt with the invoices. When it was over, we came to one obvious conclusion; we have...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Aug 26, 2022
Oxnard--Sometimes, I can’t help but look back at how I have evolved while traveling through life. WHEN I was in high school and college, I was lazy. I was driven by attending social events in college and listening to music when I was in high school, which would infuriate my father. That all changed when I moved into journalism and started reporting on events that inform the public. Reportin...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Aug 19, 2022
On July 27, 2022, at the Oxnard City Council meeting, again, as was the case three years ago, the Oxnard city staff misled the city council and the public with erroneous cost data for the city’s employee benefit contribution increases. Human Resources (HR) stated that for the Exec, IOUE, OPOA, and SEIU labor bargaining units, the total estimated costs for the new three-year term (FY22/23, FY23/...
Aug 19, 2022
Oxnard-- Just like everyone else, the J-Train and I are doing what we can to save water so we can make it through the drought. I’VE done some stories to try and inform the public and get them with the program, and I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t do what I could. I guess that means more sacrifices, you know, to go along with cutting back on groceries at the store because of inflation, includi...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Aug 12, 2022
Oxnard-- You know, I start my day, and as I get my to-do list organized, writing, accounting, billing, phone calls, stuff like that, I can usually tell if it’s going to be a good or difficult day. THEN things start happening, and, well, there goes the day. On Sunday, the J-Train went off to work, and shortly after leaving, I got a call that she was driving, heard a loud pop, and had a flat u...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Aug 5, 2022
Oxnard-- Sometimes, you make mistakes you can never fix that you end up paying for all your life. It may sound silly, but it’s happening to me this week. LET me back up to the point of the mistake. I was in eighth grade, and the opportunity came up for me to join the youth wrestling team. My best friend Rey was on the high school team, so I went to a practice with him that included a big tri...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Jul 29, 2022
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