MISSION VIEJO – The Mission Viejo City Council earlier in the month voted to extend the city's contract with Bonanza Steam Cleaning Inc. for an additional two years.The city is paying Bonanza $94,000 to remove graffiti from city properties,...

LAKE FOREST – More than 100 El Toro High School students will show off their musical and performing talents Sunday at the 6th annual Prelude in the Park concert, a joint effort between the city and the school's Instrumental Music Department.The...

MISSION VIEJO – Dan Robbins isn't made of money, but he does consider himself a rich man.The La Paz Intermediate School music teacher was feted by current and former students on Saturday for the contributions he's made to their lives over the last...

At 4 feet, 2 inches, Nate Molinari is one of the smallest players on the Viejo Little League USC Trojans AAA Division team. But on Tuesday night, he was the biggest.Molinari not only came through in the clutch during the league's AAA Division...

MISSION VIEJO – More than 400 guests at the Komen OC Pink Tie Ball, held Saturday at Lake Mission Viejo, enjoyed live entertainment, cuisine and silent and live auctions. The theme of the 7th annual fundraiser was "Quest," inspired by the lyrics of...

Nearly 400 K-6th-grade students participated in the first of two instructional track & field meets put on by the Mission Viejo YMCA, Saturday, at Laguna Hills High.The meets are part of an 8-week program that instructs participants on the concepts of...

Four Mission Viejo-area high school softball teams earned berths to the CIF-Southern Section Division 2 playoffs, the CIF-SS office announced Monday.To nobody's surprise, Mission Viejo – ranked No. 1 in the county, section and state – earned the...

The Mission Viejo, Capistrano Valley and Trabuco Hills high school baseball teams begin their quest for a CIF-Southern Section Division 1 championship this week.Mission Viejo (18-11-1), which placed fourth in the South Coast League, will travel down...

Even though both teams had already secured playoff berths, there was a Sea View League title up for grabs Friday afternoon at Trabuco Hills High. Neither Capistrano Valley nor Trabuco Hills wanted to settle for second place with a loss on the final...

Harvey Boelts likes that proceeds from bingo nights at the Mission Viejo Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge 2444 go back to the community. Boelts has been calling and monitoring the games, selling paper cards and daubers and making sure everything runs...

MISSION VIEJO – Saddleback College Fashion Design students celebrated color and urban style as they hosted their annual fashion show, "Express Yourself," in the McKinney Theatre on May 2. The show featured pieces designed and created by students in...

While 45,000 prayer gatherings dotted the nation, people from 32 participating churches and other local residents filed into Mission Viejo Christian Church on an unusually balmy night for National Day of Prayer May 2. To state that this meeting was...

Long before SUVs and a concrete super-highway called "the 5," tenant farmers living on the land now known as Mission Viejo loaded excess crops on wagons to sell in sleepy San Juan Capistrano or the growing community of Santa Ana. In either case, the...

LAKE FOREST – More than 150 people flooded El Toro Park for Mission Hospital's Cinco de Mayo block party aimed at addressing South County's increase in childhood obesity. Attendees learned about healthy diets, ate fresh fruit and healthy snacks,...

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – Capistrano Unified School District trustees tried to assure the public on Wednesday of their commitment to lowering class sizes and reinstating some furlough days as they open negotiations with the local teachers union. A new...

MISSION VIEJO – The City Council on Monday voted to reject bids it has received to build the long-awaited dog park and readvertise the project.The council had been poised to select Laguna Niguel-based Land Forms Landscape Construction to build the...

MISSION VIEJO – Kim Brown, 13, and her friend Lauren Bauer, 14, are in Eric Gosselin's science class at Newhart Middle School.But Bauer has Gosselin for first period; Brown has him for fifth. So when Gosselin announced to his fifth-period students...

Twenty of the top high school, college and amateur wrestlers and coaches from throughout the state will be honored Saturday, May 11, at the 14th Annual California Wrestling Hall of Fame Banquet at the Laguna Hills Community Center.Ten will be...

MISSION VIEJO – A man pretending to be shopping in a Mission Viejo mall on Wednesday showed a saleswoman the gun tucked in his waistband and walked away with five Cartier watches, authorities said. The robbery occurred in less than five minutes,...

A few weeks before her due date, Kelly Fee tearfully asked her doctor when he could induce an end to a miserable pregnancy. But instead of scheduling a delivery, her obstetrician, Dr. Marvin Posner, delivered a message. He explained to her that her...