0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines UPDATE: City’s Flag Flies; CoastLines: Long Letting It Wave Is Not So Easy, Eagle Scout Learns UPDATE: The city recently began flying its flag at the end of the San Clemente Pier. The city of San Clemente Flag flies at the…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines CoastLines: 1960s Vagabond Surfed Her Way Around the World Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Generations of young wave riders have known San Clemente’s Mary Lou Drummy as a surfing icon and director of the…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines CoastLines: Before He made San Clemente, Ole Hanson Made Headlines as a Seattle Mayor in 1919 By Fred Swegles One hundred years ago, Ole Hanson was one of the most famous men in America. “Fighting Mayor of Seattle,” The Oregonian newspaper…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines CoastLines: A Doggone Good Time at the Ole Hanson Beach Club Pool By Fred Swegles Fred Swegles In all of the years I’ve enjoyed events at the Ole Hanson Beach Club, I’ve never witnessed a higher level…
0 Letters to the Editor, SOAPBOX Letter to the Editor: My Two Cents STEVE JUDD, San Clemente I enjoy reading the San Clemente Times every Thursday and get most of my local, mostly unbiased, news from it. I…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines CoastLines: Some of Our Spanish Street Names Are a Mouthful By Fred Swegles How would you like to live on Pimple Street? I’m not suggesting that we have a Zit Street in San Clemente. But…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines Coastlines: Now I Know My Uncle Jack Was a War Hero By Fred Swegles One day, years ago, I paused outside the door entering the community center and my jaw dropped. I gazed at a plaque:…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines Coastlines: Marblehead Coastal Site A Far-Different 1968 Vision Led to What We See Today By Fred Swegles Try to envision San Clemente’s Marblehead Coastal property as home to three…
1 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines CoastLines: In Search of Mission San Clemente Exact location of first Catholic mission in Texas remains unknown By Fred Swegles Everyone remembers the Alamo. We learned about it in school. For all…
1 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines CoastLines: Once Again, I’ve Just Seen Everyone’s Favorite Canine By Fred Swegles Two weeks ago, I casually asked an acquaintance if she remembered a San Clemente dog that used to hang out along Interstate…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines CoastLines: She Taught the Town How to Swim By Fred Swegles It’s 1952. The Korean War rages on. In America, thousands of children are paralyzed, and some even die, from a spreading plague…
3 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines, Video Coastlines: ‘Just Don’t Call Me Benedict Arnold!’ By Fred Swegles How do you react, upon learning you are a distant cousin to the most notorious traitor in U.S. history? Tell no one?…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines CoastLines: Memories of My Aunt Evalyn and Her Historic House By Fred Swegles Here’s a little-known story about a San Clemente gem. Casa Romantica is widely known as the elegant home that San Clemente founder…
0 Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX CoastLines: Some Place We’re Going, Some Places We’ve Been By Fred Swegles Time flies when you’re having fun. Somehow, my one-year anniversary as a San Clemente Times columnist flew right past me, without my…
0 EYE ON SC, News Headlines Sand art, bodyboarding like you’ve never seen it, and some other Ocean Festival eye candy Here are some more perspectives of this weekend’s San Clemente Ocean Festival, captured by roving columnist Fred Swegles.
