O’side dumps foam

City will ban sale of Styrofoam items

By Samantha Nelson OCEANSIDE

— Oceanside has joined several North County cities in banning polystyrene foam, or Styrofoam, containers.

The Oceanside City Council unanimously approved the decision to ban polystyrene foam sales on May 3, following the City of San Diego’s recent decision to ban foam plastic materials.

Staff is expected to come back to council in August with official ordinance language outlining the ban along with a plan to help local businesses transition from using takeout and other Styrofoam items to different recyclable products.

With Oceanside now moving forward with a Styrofoam ban, that leaves only Coronado as the remaining coastal city in the county without a ban.

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City News Service SAN DIEGO — Texas-based Nexstar Media Group, which already owns Fox5 in San Diego, announced May 8 it will acquire KUSI-TV for $35 million.

Nexstar will purchase the independent station from McKinnon Broadcasting Company.

“KUSI-TV’s established local news operations serving viewers and advertisers across the San Diego community is a perfect fit with our station group and existing San Diego operations at KSWB-TV (Fox5),’’ Tom Carter, Nexstar’s president and chief operating officer, said in a statement. “Their mission of serving the community by delivering the most local news in the market is consistent with Nexstar’s commitment to providing consumers expansive local content on linear and digi-

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The Surfrider Foundation, which championed the passage of the ban in San Diego, Oceanside and other coastal cities, is pushing Coronado to follow suit.

Other North County cities with Styrofoam bans include Carlsbad, Encinitas, Solana Beach, Del Mar, Vista and San Marcos. Currently, Escondido does not have a ban on Styrofoam.

Mayor Esther Sanchez and Councilmember Eric Joyce brought forward the item at the request of a citizen-led effort to TURN TO STYROFOAM ON 10

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