Soul Monster
Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, bringing a boogie-woogie swing sound and one of the hottest blowing harps since the days of Little Walter, arrive at Brixton Sunday night.
Mayor remains upbeat about recovery
Mayor Mike Gin, in his annual State of the City address this week, tried to strike an optimistic tone while acknowledging the difficulties presented by the economic recession. “I don’t think any of us will disagree,” the mayor said, “that the last year was an extraordinary year.”
RBPD awaits long-delayed stimulus funds
In July of last year, United State Attorney General Eric Holder began what amounted to a victory tour of various law enforcement agencies who’d been helped by the stimulus money his department had awarded. The goal of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had been to put people back to work, and it was working: […]
School board looks for money
The hunt has begun. The Redondo Beach Unified School District leaders over the next two months face an impossible task as they prepare for another round of state education cuts: trimming an estimated $3.6 million from the district budget in a way that doesn’t damage the education delivered to its students. At Tuesday night’s Board […]
Lean budget costs police positions
With revenues falling and the state’s financial crisis continuing, the Hermosa Beach City Council approved budget adjustments that leave the 39-member police force five officers short. [read more]
False arrest and Taser claimed
The City Council rejected without comment a claim for damages by a man who says a police officer zapped him with a Taser and another struck him with a baton or a flashlight in a parking lot behind the downtown Bank of America building. Police Chief Greg Savelli said the use of force was reviewed, […]
Monkey bars, movies at busy park
Part two of a series by Doris Beaman The park at Valley Drive and Gould Avenue in northern Hermosa is near and dear to me, lying as it does a few blocks from my home. Hermosa Valley Park, the 5.3-acre expanse of grassy fields, tree-dotted slopes, hardtop court, outdoor amphitheater and children’s play equipment forms […]
Teaching posts on chopping block
Hermosa Beach City School District officials have once again prepared a list of teachers who will be laid off at the beginning of the next school year, unless more money is found to save their jobs. For several years running, parents and other community members save most of the jobs by raising as much as […]
About Town
Oil check The City Council will meet in closed session March 9 to discuss Hermosa’s options in a potentially bankrupting breach-of-contract lawsuit by Macpherson Oil Company, which once planned to drill from a city-owned location. An appeals court recently returned the long-running lawsuit to a lower court, in a partial victory for the city. The […]
Costa boys, girls hit the end of the road
Mustangs fall to Pasadena, Edison