Fernando Alcantara Archive

  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal A one-year amendment to the agreement between the Korean Festival Foundation of Orange County and the City of Garden Grove was approved during Tuesday night’s...

    Korean Festival returns to roots

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal A one-year amendment to the agreement between the Korean Festival Foundation of Orange County and the City of Garden Grove was approved during Tuesday night’s...

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  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Individual members of the Garden Grove City Council made no verbal comment in response to an Orange County Grand Jury report during Tuesday night’s city...

    GG council rejects Grand Jury criticism

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Individual members of the Garden Grove City Council made no verbal comment in response to an Orange County Grand Jury report during Tuesday night’s city...

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  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal The Garden Grove City Council did not get a chance to act on a decision that would have helped the proposed water park and hotel...

    Paperwork glitch: no water park action

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal The Garden Grove City Council did not get a chance to act on a decision that would have helped the proposed water park and hotel...

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  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Garden Grove residents who have yearned to take their singing from the privacy of their showers to a live audience will get a chance thanks...

    The show can go On the Rocks

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Garden Grove residents who have yearned to take their singing from the privacy of their showers to a live audience will get a chance thanks...

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  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal The Garden Grove City Council approved resolutions for several city agencies Tuesday night and approved a proposed budget that included virtually all elements of city...

    Balanced budgets for GG are approved

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal The Garden Grove City Council approved resolutions for several city agencies Tuesday night and approved a proposed budget that included virtually all elements of city...

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  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Garden Grove City Council reconsidered and reaffirmed several resolutions that would allow a new mixed-use hotel and retail project on Harbor Boulevar Tuesday night. The...

    Hotel-retail project reaffirmed by GG council

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Garden Grove City Council reconsidered and reaffirmed several resolutions that would allow a new mixed-use hotel and retail project on Harbor Boulevar Tuesday night. The...

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  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Spending the night in Garden Grove will cost visitors more than before ,if voters agree to raise the hotel visitors tax this November. City Council...

    GG hotel tax increase goes to the ballot

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Spending the night in Garden Grove will cost visitors more than before ,if voters agree to raise the hotel visitors tax this November. City Council...

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  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal The City of Garden Grove can expect a benefit to the general fund of approximately $2 million annually thanks to the city council’s approval of...

    $2 million goes to help balance GG books

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal The City of Garden Grove can expect a benefit to the general fund of approximately $2 million annually thanks to the city council’s approval of...

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  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Tuesday night’s Garden Grove city council meeting could have been confused with a courtroom drama; all that was missing was a heated cross-examination. Instead, Jared...

    Billboard battle gets a continuance

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal Tuesday night’s Garden Grove city council meeting could have been confused with a courtroom drama; all that was missing was a heated cross-examination. Instead, Jared...

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  • By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal The Garden Grove City Council approved the plans for the Orange County Flood Control District’s Haster Retarding Basin, also known as the Twin Lakes Freedom...

    Twin Lakes remake moves forward

    By Fernando Alcantara/Garden Grove Journal The Garden Grove City Council approved the plans for the Orange County Flood Control District’s Haster Retarding Basin, also known as the Twin Lakes Freedom...

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