Port Hueneme city staff and police milled about with construction workers, attorneys and the handful of people who have been living in the few intact buildings on the shuttered property.

Carpenter spent 32 years on the council, serving multiple stints as mayor. Port Hueneme named its community center for the longtime public servant. Orvene Carpenter, a Port Hueneme city ...

For a mile, it turns into a roller coaster, dipping below the harbor mouth, shooting below the sand of Silver Strand Beach and diving back down under the entrance to the Port of Hueneme.