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Articles by | Jennifer Karmarkar

City of Fullerton budget cuts continue to affect community

Monday night, the Fullerton Parks and Recreation Commission unanimously approved that budget cuts totaling $323,000 should go forward for final approval by the City Council in June. The City Council had already approved the total amount to be cut at a March city budget workshop, however, the way the cuts were to be dispersed among [...]

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Palin Stanislaus controversy sparks fiscal scrutiny of CSU foundations

Amid new allegations of wrongdoing, suspicion continues to reign over the California State University and the many auxiliary organizations that operate on behalf of its campuses. The latest incident involves Cal State Stanislaus’ refusal to make public the contracts involving an upcoming speaking engagement by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Portions of a document thought [...]

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Greeks heat up Alumni House

Tempers flared Wednesday night at a Cal State Fullerton Greek community event designed to build good relations within the university and surrounding community. The event, which was held at the Goeller Alumni House, drew about 50 people, including fraternity and sorority presidents from the 12 houses, chapter advisers, campus police and Fullerton City Council and [...]

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Orange County earthquake expected

The likelihood that Orange County will experience a major earthquake in the next 30 years may have increased with the magnitude 7.2 earthquake on Easter Day centered near Mexicali, Mexico. That was one of the findings presented by Cal State Fullerton associate geology professors David Bowman and Phil Armstrong at a talk Tuesday night at [...]

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Habit Burger invades Fullerton

It’s 7:15 on a Wednesday evening, a time when most restaurants are winding down their dinner rush. But at the Habit Burger Grill, a surf-themed restaurant that just opened across from Cal State Fullerton, they’re getting ready to catch the next wave of customers. The Habit opened on March 29 and already the line of [...]

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Community culture threatened by budget cuts

When Christina Garner led her Fullerton High School Spanish class on a virtual tour of a museum in Uruguay last year, she was amazed at how many students had never been inside a museum. That day she made it her mission to get them to as many ‘real-world’ museums as she could. Her students have [...]

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Fullerton Police show citizens ways of the trade

Ruth Scearce has always had a fascination with the law. Now the 79-year-old former military wife and nurse is getting a view of the police department that most people never see. Ruth is one of 15 men and women enrolled in the Fullerton Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Academy, a 10-week series of classes that exposes [...]

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Budget meeting protested funding cut to Muckenthaler Cultural Center

More than 150 people attended a Fullerton City Council budget meeting Tuesday to protest a proposed $80,000 funding cut to The Muckenthaler Cultural Center. Supporters lined the aisles of council chambers, where city council members debated proposed cuts to close the gap on a $5.5 million shortfall the city faces for fiscal year 2010-2011, which [...]

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