Coalition forms in support of new harbor zoning
A coalition of newly-formed groups announced a joint campaign Tuesday on behalf of Measure G, a Nov. 2 ballot measure that would approve the city’s proposed new harbor zoning. The coalition includes harbor area businesses, former and current elected officials, the Chamber of Commerce and a group of Redondo Beach mothers. It represents perhaps the […]
The forgotten guitar god
Johnny Winter played with Hendrix, appeared at Woodstock, and nearly lost his life amid rock excess. He’s back. Beaumont, Texas, circa 1959, was a rough town populated mainly by oilfield wildcatters and dock workers that had two very distinct communities – black and white. Beaumont had been home to one of the worst race riots […]
Costa campus redesign may reduce baseball program
Supporters of Mira Costa High School’s baseball and softball programs are worried that a proposed redesign of the campus’s athletic facilities will have severe and lasting consequences for both programs. The area for ball fields might be shrunk as the entire campus undergoes a reconfiguration. “The proposed [athletic] design will wipe out these programs we’ve […]
Manhattan Beach City Council says ‘No’ to business license tax for real estate agents
Members of the real estate community cheered and applauded the Manhattan Beach City Council Tuesday night for throwing out a staff proposal that would levy a business license tax on Realtors. Roughly 75 agents and brokers stormed Manhattan Beach City Hall ready to argue that the city does not have the legal authority to impose […]
Blue whales still feeding in local waters
Our hungry blue visitors have stayed at least a while longer. An estimated 50 to 80 blue whales that arrived unexpectedly in local waters a little more than two weeks ago are still feeding heartily just off the coast. The whales are an endangered species – only 10,000 to 16,000 exist worldwide – and have […]
Resident fined hundreds for jogging
A Manhattan Beach resident pays the price jogging on the stairs in Sand Dune Park.
About Town
Firefighter of the year announced; Art exhibition opens; teachers recognized for NASA space camp; Lost and found pets.
Beach Cities likely Vitality City pick
The Beach Cities Health District’s bid to enroll the community in the cutting-edge Vitality City public health program has apparently been successful. A delegation of officials from the Blue Zones Vitality City project paid the Beach Cities a final visit this week prior to a BCHD Board of Directors meeting next Wednesday at which the […]
Fab at 50
A Hermosa author helps sociologists, brain researchers and gray-headed bloggers redefine aging Some years ago a popular magazine ran a big splashy spread announcing that women over 50 could continue to be vital and worthy of our admiration, despite their advanced years. The spread was devoted to a small number of celebrity women who, it […]
About Town
Biggs moves on Redondo Beach Assistant City Manager David Biggs today was appointed to the City Manager position for the City of Tustin. The Tustin City Council approved a five-year employment agreement with Biggs to serve as their City Manager replacing retired City Manager William Huston. Tustin is a City of 74,000 population located in […]
“Beehive”
Well, it’s like this, “Beehive” is a musical revue that tips its hat to an era, or at least a decade, and to many of the prominent women – the girl groups of the 1960s, and the solo artists as well – who may today be remembered with a smile (Connie Francis), a shake of […]
Chivalrous ‘Mouse Guard’ swarms Manhattan Beach
David Petersen, writer and illustrator of the highly regarded “Mouse Guard” comic book series, will sign books, make sketches and display original artwork 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, at The Comic Bug store, 1807 Manhattan Beach Blvd. (just west of Aviation Boulevard) in Manhattan Beach. The all-ages-friendly “Mouse Guard” books, which have been […]
Kah: Odd coupling makes good fit
A Japanese chef I know has a grudge against any restaurant that calls itself “Asian.” While all Asian cuisines are heavy on stir-frying and soups, the term didn’t mean anything in terms of spicing, she complained – it included cuisines as diverse as Thai and Japanese. Nobody, she sniffed, would suggest that those cuisines had […]
A few drops of heaven
The Norris Theatre offers three weeks of “Singin’ in the Rain” There are certain facts audience members must understand before attending the opening of the stage version of “Singing’ in the Rain” tomorrow night at the Norris Theatre in Rolling Hills Estates. Most importantly, the play is a play based on a movie that’s a […]
Harbor lights
Crustaceans meet cowboys at Redondo Lobster Fest Sadly, a living creature has to lose its life to become part of the human diet. In the old days, dad or grandpa dispensed a barnyard animal to the afterlife out behind the barn with a knife to the throat or a quick “two to the head”. Today […]
Schools get $230,000 stimulus
Hermosa Beach City School District officials have been told they will get about $230,600 in federal stimulus money to restore eliminated positions and furlough days, and they continued to await more specific instructions about how it is to be spent. An average salary for a teacher in the 1,300-student, K-8 district is about $72,000 a […]