Voters in this coastal Ventura County city will decide: Do we call ourselves 'Port' or 'Beach'?

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Voters in this coastal Ventura County city will decide: Do we call ourselves 'Port' or 'Beach'?
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An initiative on this week's ballot, if approved, would rename Port Hueneme as Hueneme Beach in attempt to drive attention to the small strip of sand on the city's southern edge.

A small cut to the number of sheriff’s deputies in West Hollywood is animating the election in the famously liberal city.

Barnard, however, was a squatter on a rancho owned by oil baron Thomas Scott, whose land agent Thomas Bard disliked the name and sought to build a wharf on Point Hueneme.The semiofficial naming of the area was at odds with the name of the post office and created confusion, Kelley said. Residents at the time had become fond of the name Wynema.

Bass holds a narrow edge, but tens of millions of dollars in negative ads have powered Caruso into striking distance. “We’re known for the port,” she said Thursday afternoon outside a city library where she had just dropped off her ballot. “We’re not known for the beach or the pier.”

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