Brittany Hanson Archive

  • By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Visitors to Garden Grove’s growing skyline of hotels may soon be paying a bit more to stay and play. Measure Y, a 1.5 percent increase...

    Measure Y would raise hotel taxes

    By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Visitors to Garden Grove’s growing skyline of hotels may soon be paying a bit more to stay and play. Measure Y, a 1.5 percent increase...

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  • By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal More fruit, more vegetables, less sodium, less fat, more whole grains. One half of a cup of fruits or vegetables is now mandatory. Plus more...

    School meals have to get healthier

    By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal More fruit, more vegetables, less sodium, less fat, more whole grains. One half of a cup of fruits or vegetables is now mandatory. Plus more...

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  • By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal There is no magnet school set for Westminster as of yet, however, by next year there will be school programs that mimic one in education...

    No magnet school for Westminster yet

    By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal There is no magnet school set for Westminster as of yet, however, by next year there will be school programs that mimic one in education...

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  • By Brittany Hanson Garden Grove Journal This year is the 29-year anniversary of the Korean Festival of Orange County, taking place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 9828 Garden Grove...

    Celebrating GG’s ‘Seoul’

    By Brittany Hanson Garden Grove Journal This year is the 29-year anniversary of the Korean Festival of Orange County, taking place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 9828 Garden Grove...

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  • By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Tuesday night the Stanton City Council welcomed the new Orange County Fire Authority Division Chief Michael E. Boyle at the start to the council meeting....

    New ‘fire chief’ greeted at Stanton meeting

    By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Tuesday night the Stanton City Council welcomed the new Orange County Fire Authority Division Chief Michael E. Boyle at the start to the council meeting....

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  • By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Not only did the Garden Grove Unified School District survive its first summer of modernization projects, it has also been picked to be the first...

    Study will ask: what makes for a good student

    By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Not only did the Garden Grove Unified School District survive its first summer of modernization projects, it has also been picked to be the first...

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  • By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Donating backpacks isn’t just putting supplies into a bag and handing it off to a child, you have to find the supplies, the people and...

    Foundation honored by Stanton council

    By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Donating backpacks isn’t just putting supplies into a bag and handing it off to a child, you have to find the supplies, the people and...

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  • By Brittany Hanson/ Garden Grove Journal From behind barbed wire, 7-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuti and her family were watched, monitored and housed in camps by their government as a threat to...

    At GG library a return to ‘Manzanar’

    By Brittany Hanson/ Garden Grove Journal From behind barbed wire, 7-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuti and her family were watched, monitored and housed in camps by their government as a threat to...

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  • By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Long-time Garden Grove resident Marilyn Lewis Tortolano will serve as one of three citizens on the Garden Grove Unified School District’s Personnel Commission. The appointment...

    Member appointed to personnel panel

    By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal Long-time Garden Grove resident Marilyn Lewis Tortolano will serve as one of three citizens on the Garden Grove Unified School District’s Personnel Commission. The appointment...

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  • By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal A public hearing to accept the Garden Grove Unified School District’s budget for 2012-13 was held and the spending plan went unchallenged at Tuesday night’s...

    GGUSD board approves budget

    By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal A public hearing to accept the Garden Grove Unified School District’s budget for 2012-13 was held and the spending plan went unchallenged at Tuesday night’s...

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