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August 25, 2011

About Town: Manhattan Beach August 25, 2011

The first day of school is always a time to snap away. We want to share your special moments – whether all of the kids are enrolled at the same school for the first time, best friends are reunited after a summer apart, or if it’s a student’s first day at a new school.

Blue Whales sighted off King Harbor

“They’re coming in fast,” Captain Brad Sawyer recently shouted to his crew. “Their speed is a good 10-15 knots, and

Women leap onto new stages with Bad Ballet

In an episode of the second season of Saturday Night Live in the mid-‘70s, Gilda Radner wears a tutu, flailing her arms and legs on stage ungracefully, as her sloppily tied pointe shoes slip off of her feet. The title of the skit, appropriately enough, is Bad Ballet.

Manhattan Beach students excel in state tests

Manhattan Beach students improved on most areas of state standardized tests compared to last year’s results, according to results released by the California Department of Education. In total, 5,046 students in the district were tested this past spring.

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Lessons from the Blue Zones

Somewhere in the remote Nicoyan peninsula of Costa Rica, a 101-year-old great-great-grandmother is making you look bad. Her name is

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The vital revolution

The beach cities join a quest for the Holy Grail of public health: moving an entire population towards living longer,

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The Vitality City Makeover

The author of Blue Zones offers his personal guidance to a select group of unhealthy beach city residents on how

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