Biographies

Alois (Louis) Denni – pioneer Los Alamitos dairyman

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Besides having the first sugar beet factory in Orange County, Los Alamitos also had one if its first dairy farms.  The factory went out of business in 1926, but dairys stuck around until the early 1960s. The first local dairy was owned by Alois (Louis) Denn, a Swiss emigrant who began operating a cheese dairy … Read more

obit – Paul Erskine, Los Alamitos Publisher, Rossmoor Community Leader, Dies

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Originally printed September 03, 1987 – LA Times Paul J. Erskine, publisher for more than two decades of the News-Enterprise Newspapers in Los Alamitos, died Wednesday of cancer at his Rossmoor home. He was 62. Erskine had been ill in recent months, according to Lowayne Sammons, the newspaper’s office manager. Erskine had owned the weekly … Read more