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OC Today-Dispatch OCTOBER 10, 2025
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Country Calling fills town Three-day music event delivers massive but mostly well-behaved crowds to OC for second straight weekend. — PAGE 10
OC Council OKs $52M bond sale for cap projects FULL HOUSE
PHOTO COURTESY C3 PRESENTS
A massive crowd at Country Calling on the beach downtown gathers in front of the main stage during a performance Sunday. Officials say 55,000 tickets were sold to the three-day event to match sales in the Oceans Calling festival the weekend before.
Room tax held for ransom Bertino sticks it to OC by seeking use of city sewer service to enable mainland development in exchange for his ‘yes’ vote on one-cent increase approved by legislature. — PAGE 16
$42 million of it will be used for wastewater treatment project.— PAGE 22
Commissioners slow OC’s path to tax approval Say county procedures must be followed before room tax vote.— PAGE 14