By Collin Breaux | Email: cbreaux@picketfencemedia.com | Twitter: @collin_breaux After shelving the projects earlier this year due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent…
By Collin Breaux | Email: cbreaux@picketfencemedia.com | Twitter: @collin_breaux Taking into consideration some project delays due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, the San Juan…
By Collin Breaux | Email: cbreaux@picketfencemedia.com | Twitter: @collin_breaux San Juan Capistrano City Councilmember Derek Reeve addressed how city finances could be affected by the…
By Collin Breaux | Email: cbreaux@picketfencemedia.com | Twitter: @collin_breaux The excitement in Mayor Troy Bourne’s voice is clear when asked what the year 2020 holds…
By Collin Breaux | Email: cbreaux@picketfencemedia.com | Twitter: @collin_breaux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMkQ257iWI4 Plans for the Putuidem Cultural Village at the Northwest Open Space are moving forward after…
JOANNA CLARK, San Juan Capistrano The Acjachemen Nation settled this area 12,000 years before our European interloper ancestors invaded and decimated the indigenous Native populations…
By Shawn Raymundo A majority of the community would prefer to see San Juan Capistrano’s Northwest Open Space remain as is—natural open space and hiking…
By Shawn Raymundo At the city council’s regular meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 20, councilmembers heard from a small handful of individuals urging them to get…
DINA GILIO-WHITAKER, professor of American Indian Studies, Cal State San Marcos, and REBECCA ROBLEES, Acjachemen tribal member The San Juan Capistrano City Council’s backpedaling on…
By Shawn Raymundo To clean up inconsistencies and ambiguous language regarding the use of open space in San Juan’s municipal code, the city on Monday,…
ROBERT BRACAMONTES, Montebello When people ask, “Where were you born?”, I say, “On my Ancestral land.” I was born Acjachemen. Today, we struggle to maintain control…
