Orange County's Stanton at a fiscal crossroads

Stanton has long seen itself as being on the way to Orange County's name-brand destinations. But a fiscal crisis has it on the way to insolvency.

The Stanton that Alma Barba remembers was just a wedge of a place in the middle of a growing county. There were the strawberry fields and orange groves she'd pass on the way to school, and the town's well-rooted reputation as being impoverished and gang-ridden that she learned to endure.

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