Put Some Sourgrass in Your Pipe and Smoke It
Some folks smoke dope, people have tried the banana peel, the Native Americans brought us the tobacco leaf; but I recommend you put some Sourgrass in your pipe and smoke it! With a name like Sourgrass, one might picture a cross-legged hillbilly plucking banjo in a rocking chair next to his toothless counterpart still trying […]
Ambassador High : Christian high school bid falls short
The fledgling vision for a small faith-based academy, Ambassador High School, will not come to fruition at 320 Knob Hill. Officials from the Redondo Beach Unified School District and Ambassador School announced last week that negotiations for a lease on the former school site have ended unsuccessfully. Ambassador CEO and headmaster Mike Barker said that […]
Manhattan Beach Open tug-of-war continues
Pro beach volleyball player Matt Fuerbringer wants his name on the Manhattan Beach Pier. And he wants it to mean something. So the Olympic hopeful is more than a little concerned about the hands into which the future of the city’s prized Manhattan Beach Open Volleyball Tournament (MBO) gets placed. Fuerbringer pleaded Tuesday with the […]
Cops ask for help identifying suspected robber at mall store
Police are searching for a man suspected of assaulting a Manhattan Village Mall employee earlier this month before fleeing with stolen merchandise, according to authorities. At 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 4, a security employee of Fry’s Electronics, 3600 N. Sepulveda Blvd. in Manhattan Beach attempted to detain a man who tried to leave the crowded […]
Police search for counterfeiter
Police are asking for help in identifying a suspected counterfeiter who used a falsified driver’s license in an attempt to withdraw money from a Manhattan Beach bank. The incident occurred on Sept. 14 at Chase bank on the 700 block of S. Sepulveda Blvd. According to police reports, a woman approached a teller with a […]
Costa student wins national award
Mira Costa High School senior Iktae Park was one of two California high school students selected earlier this month to represent the state in Washington D.C. at the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP). Park received a call on Dec. 7 from California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, notifying him that he was chosen […]
About Town
Comic store food drive; Theater winter camp; Coffee with the mayor.
New Neighbors
On a crisp day in October, former members of the New Neighbors Club of Palos Verdes met for a reunion at 22nd St. Landing Seafood Grill in San Pedro. The luncheon was open to all members who were active in the club from 1995 to 2000. The reunion attracted women from as far away as Arkansas, Sacramento, Orange County, and Palm Desert as well as former members who remained in the Palos Verdes area. Everyone enjoyed reminiscing and recalling good times and friendships formed in the club. Julie Rajan, and Anita Mannila, members who were active in the club in the 90’s organized the event.
Hermosa Beach studies possible school district merger
A strategic planning committee is looking at the future of the Hermosa Beach City School District from every angle, even studying the possibility of merging with a neighboring school district. Committee members have met with the superintendents of the other two beach cities school districts to gather information on the possibility of a merger, although […]
Life-saving technology pays off for a 95-y.o. Hermosa Beach woman
Christmas came early for a 95-year-old Hermosa Beach woman who received life-saving treatment for a myocardial infarction heart attack faster than previously possible, through a new system allowing emergency physicians to see her EKG data at a medical center even as firefighter-paramedics were treating her on the scene. Technological upgrades, purchased by Providence Little Company […]
Hermosa Beach wins another green award for cutting-edge Strand Infiltration Trench Project
The Southern California Chapter of the American Public Works Association (APWA) has recognized the city’s cutting-edge Strand Infiltration Trench Project under the beach sand with a 2010 B.E.S.T APWA Project of the Year Award. “We are pleased and gratified to have this recognition of the hard work and innovative efforts of our public works departments […]
Surfer wins parking permit contest
The City Council has honored local surfer Tom Graner as the winner of the first annual Hermosa Beach Parking Permit Art Contest for a design featuring him paddling on a surfboard off the city’s coastline. Graner’s winning design and artwork will be featured on city-issued parking permits for 2011-2012. “Congratulations to Mr. Graner for submitting […]