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CONTACT ORANGE COUNTY BY HILLY

Dana Marron Meet Dana Marron, she’s a talented designer who lives in North Laguna. Dana is super-stylish. You see it as you walk into the home she shares with husband Mondo.  Dana recently launched a boutique creative agency called Good Together Collective, and it’s exactly that! It’s a group that has surf roots, knows a good time, and loves the creative process. The reason Dana put “collective” in the name is because she just wants […]

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BLUE 42

A team of six local swimmers becomes the first to complete an epic 27-hour aquatic relay along the length of Orange County Coast By Audrey Vier While most of the world was sleeping at 2 in the morning on a Saturday in October, six Southern California swimmers were two miles offshore along the coast of Laguna Beach. If you were to look out towards Main Beach around that time, you would have seen a 45’ […]

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SALAD DAYS

Buying boxes of incredible organic greens grown in the Second Harvest Food Bank parking lot helps fund programs to feed the hungry. By Kedric Francis | Photos by Brett Hillyard Some of the best produce ever grown in Orange County is thriving in a parking lot next to the railroad tracks in Irvine. Some 20 varieties of organic and nutrient-rich leafy greens are harvested each Friday from impeccably organized and maintained planting beds.  Shiny, fresh, […]

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Contact Orange County By Hilly

Jeff “Yoki” Yokoyama I’m always looking for a reason to connect with and photograph interesting people. Our Contact page is a platform to get a candid glimpse into the lives of some of Orange County’s unique locals. For the first session, I caught up with Jeff “Yoki” Yokoyama at his shop in Newport.  If you haven’t been to Yokishop, put it at the top of the list. You will find one-of-a-kind garments that are made […]