
The Hermosa Beach School District’s merger plan as an option was considered when I was on their Board as a Trustee (1979-81). I was in favor of it then, and now as a senior member of the community, I believe even more strongly that a merger with Manhattan Beach School District is the best option.

Local playwright Angelo Masino has staged several of his own works at the 2nd Story Theatre in Hermosa Beach, including “No Justice, No Peace,” “The Beast,” “The Treehouse,” and “The Runner,” but his newest, “An Italian American Indian,” seems to be on another level altogether. He began writing it while his brother was dying (“He went on a long journey, a year’s journey into death”), and within the same time frame Masino also underwent a marital meltdown. Not surprisingly, then, he says of “An Italian American Indian” that “This is my first adult play, I would almost call it, where I deal with family issues and kids and divorce.”


