Redondo Beach awards trash hauler $50 million contract
The Redondo Beach City Council on Tuesday night hired a new trash hauler who will offer slightly reduced rates for local residents and businesses while drastically decreasing the amount of waste from Redondo Beach that ends up in landfills. Athens Services was awarded an exclusive eight year solid waste handling contract valued at $50.5 million. […]
Cathy Rubin, Rover Rescue founder, passes away
Cathy Rubin, the founder of Rover Rescue and a longtime Redondo Beach resident, passed away last week after losing a two year battle with cancer. She was 54. “She fought really hard,” said James Mackey, her partner. “But there was nothing that was going to stop this.” A decade ago, Rubin left behind a successful […]
Lagoon’s end appears near
The Seaside Lagoon will open this summer regardless of the political hurdles it faces in coming months. But it may very likely be a lagoon in name only. The City Council Tuesday night refused to fund studies required by a state regulatory agency in order for the city to keep operating the water portion of […]
Trans-party primary for State Senate seat
Ten candidates, including former South Bay Assemblyman Ted Lieu and Manhattan Beach attorney Bob Valentine, will vie to succeed the late state Sen. Jenny Oropeza in a Feb. 15 free-for-all primary that crosses party lines. Oropeza, the Democratic incumbent, passed away two weeks before last November’s election, following a long illness. Her name on the […]
Hunt continues for suspect in robbery of elderly victim
Police were continuing their hunt for a man suspected of robbing and battering an elderly woman outside her Ardmore Avenue home on Christmas Eve. The woman had withdrawn $400 from a Citibank ATM on Pier Avenue about 11 p.m., then walked to her parked vehicle and drove to her home on the 2500 block of […]
A councilman’s residence is verified
It’s official: Hermosa Beach Councilman Patrick “Kit” Bobko lives in Hermosa Beach. In late August 2010, retired firefighter Paul Hawkins called upon county prosecutors to probe whether the two-term councilman lives within the city, as he must to hold his elective office. Dave Demerjian, head deputy in the Public Integrity Division of the Los Angeles […]
Community auction held for colorful lifeguard-tower panels
Pieces of Hermosa history, in the form of colorful panels that adorned lifeguard towers in the “Summer of Color” public art project, will be auctioned off 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11 in Room 7 of the Hermosa Beach Community Center, Pier Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway. Proceeds from the lightweight panels, with fish, flower and […]
Smiling faces all around at the Aktion Club luncheon
The Hermosa Beach Kiwanis Club decided to step up its service to the local developmentally disabled community by forming a subgroup called the Aktion Club, in which Kiwanians meet monthly with developmentally disabled members with the guidance of advisor Greg Ronkainen, former president of the Kiwanis chapter. Then members of the Aktion Club worked side-by-side […]
About Town
School head named Officials at Fusion Academy & Learning Center South Bay, a new, college-prep alternative private school in Hermosa, have named Tracy-Lyn Forney to head the school when its doors open in March. The sixth-grade to 12th-grade school, part of American Education Group’s network of private schools, is modeled after Fusion Academy & Learning […]
Local Manhattan Beach detective named city’s Officer of the Year
By the age of three, Andrew Enriquez knew he wanted to be a cop. The Manhattan Beach Police detective still remembers the day his mom buckled him into her car and drove down Sepulveda Boulevard, when she became involved in an accident with a motorcycle at the intersection of Manhattan Beach Boulevard. Terrified that he […]
Cigarettes may have caused house fire
A Manhattan Beach firefighter was injured in a house fire Monday, while searching for victims and trying to extinguish the blaze. MBFD firefighter Jeff Rice, 33, received first and second degree burns to his forehead, ear, neck and shoulder when super heated steam banked down on him as he entered the structure, according to reports. […]
Candy store robber is arrested
A parolee suspected of robbing a Manhattan Village Shopping Center store last month was arrested after a standoff with police during which he barricaded himself in his home for several hours. On Dec. 3, Montebello resident Joshua Bates, 32, allegedly robbed See’s Candies store, 3004 N. Sepulveda Blvd. while several customers were holiday shopping. Police […]
About Town
Roundhouse Rumors Mayor Richard Montgomery this week quashed rumors that the city plans to remove the Roundhouse Aquarium from the end of the pier. Rumors began circulating when a Manhattan Beach woman posted a photo of the Roundhouse on her Facebook page with a caption that reads, “Rumor has it that the Manhattan Beach City […]
New Year’s Eve at Shade Hotel’s “007? party, Manhattan Beach [PHOTOS]
Shade Hotel’s “007? New Years Eve, Manhattan Beach. Photos by Alex Smith