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  • Mission Viejo, CA

Email: peter.schelden (a) patch.com

Phone: 949-280-4719 | Hometown: Boulder City, Nevada (now Mission Viejo)

Hello, and welcome to the site. I edit and report on Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel and Dana Point for Patch.com.

I have spent my professional life writing news in suburban communities, mostly in South County. Before joining Patch I worked for the Orange County Register, where I covered San Juan, Laguna Niguel, Aliso Viejo and Laguna Beach. I have also written for the Daily Sparks Tribune.

I studied British literature of the 18th century and will talk your ear off about Samuel Johnson if I am provoked. I also studied journalism.

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Woman Hit, Killed Running Down I-5

The 52-year-old passenger jumps out of a vehicle and is hit by freeway traffic north of Crown Valley Parkway.

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Best Selling Author Tuesday Night in Mission Viejo

What happens when a storybook prince turns out to be the real thing? Jodi Picoult brings her high school daughter to Mission Viejo in promotion of their new young adult fiction.

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Hospitals Need Public Money, Says Hospital Rep

A regional business advocacy group that favors extending the 241 toll road and reopening the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station held its monthly meeting Friday morning.

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Trustee Braces for 170 Cut CUSD Teachers

Trustee Ellen Addonizio tells a Republican crowd to expect furlough days and lost jobs at Capistrano Unified School District.

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Check Out Mission Viejo's Newest Grocery Store

Soon-to-open Apple Ranch Market in the Gateway Center plans a deli and on-site bakery. It's owned by the same people who own Hatam.

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9 Businesses Opening in Mission Viejo

New businesses are popping up all over Mission Viejo, selling everything from boba and pizza to baked goods and embroidery.

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Readers' Choice: Nominate the Best Preschool

Let us know the best preschool in Mission Viejo so we can put it to a vote and find out which is the Readers’ Choice 2012 winner.

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