Cop enters ‘not guilty’ plea to last year’s hit-and-run accident
A Manhattan Beach Police officer charged last week with a misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of a car accident entered a “not guilty” plea yesterday at his arraignment at the Superior Court in Torrance. MBPD Officer Richard Hatten, who will turn 36 Monday, was charged last Friday by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s […]
7-11 robber sports skinny jeans from Manhatan Beach to the OC
An armed robbery at a local convenience store earlier this month is thought by police to be one of a string of six similar robberies stretching from the South Bay to Orange County, authorities said this week. Shortly after 1 a.m. on Jan. 10, a man wearing a red bandana over his face allegedly had […]
New city manager buys home in Manhattan Beach with loan from city
New Manhattan Beach city manager Dave Carmany and his wife, Lori, will be moving from Huntington Beach to Manhattan Beach as soon as escrow closes on their modest $1.1 million tree section home on Pacific Avenue. The four City Council members present at Tuesday night’s meeting – Mayor Richard Montgomery was absent — unanimously approved […]
4day forcast
Thursday morning looks a hair smaller and less consistent than Wednesday’s surf. But top West facing beaches will still be rifling in some ass kicker sets that will go way overhead. The beach breaks may be doable at high tide, but if it get’s as big as we think, you’ll be hard pressed to dig up a corner because of the long interval swell, as the tide drops.
Seaside Lagoon’s future grows murkier
The Seaside Lagoon’s future became murkier Tuesday night in the wake of a City Council discussion that considered three options: filling the lagoon with sand for volleyball courts, filling it with sand along with a water play feature, or closing the facility entirely. Council members stressed that their intention was to somehow keep the lagoon […]
Redondo Beach: City, School District quarrel over Knob Hill
A tenant-landlord dispute has emerged between the city of Redondo Beach and the Redondo Beach Unified School District. Two weeks ago, City Manager Bill Workman announced a “good news” item at the City Council – that the city had found a new home for its Recreation and Community Services Department. After nearly five years of […]
Times test Optimist supervisor during Redondo Rotary talk
“Christmas is when Santa gives kids presents their parents pay for. Deficits are when Santa gives parents presents their kids pay for,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe told Redondo Beach Rotarians during a luncheon talk two weeks ago at the Blue Water Grill.
Up hills without a paddle
Years after the Greek soldier Pheidippides made his legendary run from the Battle of Marathon to Athens, lengthy runs became aptly known as marathons and the standard for modern day distance runners.
Vitality City bicycling, walking expert talks to beach cities
Dan Burden, the country’s leading, if not only, expert on walking and biking in urban settings will share his expertise tonight in Manhattan Beach, Wed., Jan. 19; and tomorrow night in Redondo Beach, Jan. 20.
Burden is a leader of the Vitality City program, which, over the next three years, hopes to improve the physical and mental well being of beach city residents.
Barfly
Vino Sexy: This Friday, January 21, Il Fornaio, Rosecrans, MB is hosting a wine dinner featuring varietals from the winery and tasting room of Bianchi, Paso Robles. Chef Vicente Mendoza has created a special, five-course menu pairing his culinary talent with the handcrafted Bianchi wines. The event, which starts at 6 p.m., begins with “antipasti e prosecco,” an assortment of Italian appetizers and traditional sparkling wine and continues on to the “primi” course of “melanzane,” (grilled eggplant, sliced and filled with goat cheese, basil, and sundried tomatoes in an olive oil/balsamic reduction).
Not so Simple Simon at Hermosa Beach Playhouse. CLOSBC presents ‘Barefoot in the Park’
Playwright Neil Simon once explained his personal view of creativity: “If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.” Had the Vatican venture been thus grounded, Mike would have stained his Sketchers, but suffered not the mauve in the macula and four years on a scaffold at the behest of Pope Julius II.
Letters
Youthful tattoos
Dear ER:
While I respect the U.S. Constitution and the right it provides to freedom of expression, I was shocked to read the Jan. 13, 2011, front page article in the Easy Reader [“Tattooing the Beach”].
The reference to “rich people” and “pretty people” together with Angelina Jolie and LeBron James is the wrong example.
On Local Government
Governor Jerry Brown doesn’t have a whole lot of options in his quest for a State budget that contains real solutions. In his budget message last week, Brown focused on one means to garner revenue for education by recommending that the Community Redevelopment Agencies (CRA) be discontinued and their money be redirected toward schools.
Hermosa schools mull stark possibilities
Educators are mulling at least five possible courses for the future of Hermosa’s financially ailing public schools: asking residents to tax themselves more, forming charter schools, merging with a neighboring school district, further reducing staffing and pay or, if all else fails, facing a county takeover of the schools. Unless hard choices are made “it […]
Surveillance video shows armed robbery suspect; Los Angeles and Orange Counties
Police have released an image captured from surveillance video of a man suspected in six armed robberies of convenience stores and gas stations in Los Angeles and Orange counties, including the Jan. 7 robbery of an ARCO gas station in Hermosa. The suspect is described as white or Asian with a thin build and short, […]
Hermosa Rotary reaches out globally
Elmer Marquez of the Rotary Club Freeport Zone (pictured) has signs a formal Sister Club agreement with the Hermosa Beach Rotary Club in the presence of Hermosa Rotary Treasurer and International Chair, Travers Devine. The agreement was signed by Hermosa Rotary President Regina Sweeney and then hand-carried to the Philippines by Devine. It clears the […]