Huntington Beach commissioned a study and decided that annexing Sunset Beach is a great idea. But don’t tell that to some of Sunset Beach’s residents — they want the idyllic beach town to keep its own identity.

David Nazar and Keith Spitzer of our broadcast partner KOCE recently examined the issue. Check out their story on our KOCE page.

— DAVID WASHBURN

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