San Clemente News

City intends to form a 21-member committee to help in the 2-year process to update the city's guiding document.

On a 4-0 vote Tuesday night, the City Council approved the plan for an aquatics center, three baseball fields, two soccer fields and a football field, with a large multipurpose field later.

Teachers gather before classes outside Truman Benedict Elementary School, criticizing a district proposal for a permanent 10% cut in pay and/or benefits starting in 2010-11. SAN CLEMENTE More than 20 teachers protested possible pay and benefit cuts outside Truman Benedict Elementary School before classes this morning.

The women's fitness facility wins the chain's regional Franchisee of the Year award.

The council, a committee of the Chamber of Commerce, says the city development-review system is inefficient and costs too much.

A county runoff-treatment system hasn't met required standards in tests at the beach on the San Clemente/Dana Point border.

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. a " Two supervisors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant have filed federal complaints claiming they suffered retaliation for reporting safety violations.Monday's filings with the U.S. Department of Labor claim managers at the San Diego County plant marginalized Rick Busnardo and gave Mike Mason a bad evaluation last year.

San Diego Officials are taking a closer look at bus service that shuttles San Clemente residents with disabilities to casinos because of budget concerns.Service costs North County Transit District thousands of dollars a year.Transit officials looking at other ways to pay for trips to casinos by working with casino leaders.

After Halloween, should pumpkins take a back seat, relegated to pies and muffins? Not if you've seen the incredible decorative glass pumpkins created by John Ezell.

Wegman's is an East Coast grocery unlikely to head west anytime soon, Lori Donchak says.

Kasia Kosmala-Dahlbeck won her age division in an international competition. Kasia Kosmala-Dahlbeck, a seventh-grader at Shorecliffs Middle School in San Clemente, has won an international music competition and is going to Carnegie Hall.

The chief financial officer for a pro teen skateboarder's business was arrested and charged Friday with embezzling more than $365,000, county prosecutors said.

The city invites your opinions before the City Council meets Dec. 1 to review the draft that may serve as the starting point for updating the General Plan.

Oh the outrage! : A street banner the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce has erected along El Camino Real to promote San Clemente is being removed from public property after a local resident questioned whether its image of a Christian cross is compatible with separation of church and state.

The "Opening soon ... promise" sign is coming down from The Shore restaurant Monday.

The San Clemente Times San Clemente City Councilmember Jim Dahl added his opinion Tuesday night to the debate about whether to impose term limits on the office of City Council or other committees and commissions, and by voting against it, put a close to the topic - for now.

Vol. 4, Issue 45, November 511, 2009 By Katherine Sweet San Clemente Times San Clemente's LifeModeler plays key role in evolutionary discovery, 'Ardi' Over the ages, scientists have attempted to shed light on that age-old evolutionary question: Where do we come from? To help provide an answer to this mystery, researchers partnered with LifeModeler, ...

Share + Nov 7, 2009 2:33 pm US/Pacific SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. 1 of 1 More than $300,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine was seized from a man from Mexico, who was arrested Saturday after Border Patrol agents stopped to search his car.

U.S. Border Patrol agents seized $356,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine in San Clemente and arrested a Mexican citizen on suspicion of smuggling, border agents said.

The past 10 months have been a wild ride for one of the nation's most sought-after college basketball recruits, 17-year-old Cassie Harberts of San Clemente.