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November 9, 1996 | CATHY WERBLIN, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Students at McGaugh Elementary School will turn a $1.49 package of orange California poppy seeds into a science experiment next week when the space shuttle Columbia carries their payload on a 16-day mission. The school, the first in Orange County to fly an experiment on the space shuttle and one of only a few elementary schools ever to undertake such an endeavor, was selected for the Friday mission by Instrumentation Technology Associates. The Exeter, Pa.
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December 1, 1999 | ANA CHOLO-TIPTON, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The Los Alamitos Unified School District owes much of its success to business manager Ron Murrey, who recently stepped down to take a position in Covina Valley. Murrey is credited with a legacy of fighting for millions of dollars in federal funding, money that was used to improve school services, officials said.
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March 23, 1994 | SHELBY GRAD, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Voters will go to the polls next week in a City Council election that boils down to one familiar issue: how to fatten the city's anemic coffers without altering the seaside village's small-town character. It's an issue that has long dominated Seal Beach politics, especially in recent years when residents successfully mobilized to block several developments, including one proposal that would have placed more than 300 homes on the Hellman Ranch property.