Capistrano-Beach News

With a fierce debate swirling, regional air quality regulators are entertaining a compromise over a proposed ban on wood-burning beach fires throughout Orange and Los Angeles counties, giving local municipalities greater control.

By Jim Shilander Artists from San Clemente and beyond have been making a very public statement about the city over the last two years.

Poche Beach has achieved an "A" grade from the ocean monitoring organization Heal the Bay, the first time the beach has earned the grade for an entire month in some time.

When advocates for the homeless lobbied against Dana Point's 10-person shelter limit, the city manager pointed to criminal behavior and substance abuse by homeless people as a reason to preserve the cap.

Nicholas McCaskill, a San Clemente High School alumnus and Air Force chief master sergeant, died in Afghanistan this month.