Track, swim teams enter CIF prelims
Mira Costa’s Daniel Golubovic enjoyed a record-setting day at the Bay League finals held at Redondo Union High School Friday while qualifying in four events for the CIF Southern Section-Ford Division 2 Prelims to be held at Moorpark High School Saturday beginning at 11 a.m. Golubovic broke a 42-year-old school record by jumping 6 feet, […]
Mira Costa loss creates three-way tie for first in Bay baseball race
For fans who like tight baseball races, the Bay League is providing a thriller this season. With one game remaining in the regular season, half the league is tied for first place. Mira Costa entered the week in first place, but after suffering a 2-1 loss at Palos Verdes Tuesday, Thursday’s home game against the […]
Local volleyball teams off to fast start in playoffs
Brooks Varni and the Mira Costa Mustangs dive into the CIF Southern Section-Ford playoffs as the third seeded team in Division 1. Photo With one exception, South Bay teams were victorious in the first round of the CIF Southern Section-Ford Boys Volleyball Championships held Tuesday. Third-seeded Mira Costa (28-4) swept Newbury Park 25-16, 25-16, 25-14 […]
Beach Barcycle makes Hermosa Beach rounds
by Jayna Elce It was the first time I had been bar-hopping on a bicycle built for 17. We hopped aboard the Beach Barcycle, which looks like a trolley with two rows of pedalers and a driver, and traveled smoothly down Hermosa Avenue. From my perch on one of the comfortable barstools – I mean, […]
Hermosa Beach Service club rises to top
The little service club that thought it could, apparently can. Hermosa Beach Rotary was named the top “Club of Excellence” for its size in a Rotary district stretching from San Pedro and Palos Verdes to Malibu and Vernon. “We’re small, but we’re mighty,” Angela Peterson, Hermosa Rotary’s executive secretary, told her fellow club members on […]
Hermosa Beach environmentalist honored
Toyota and the Wyland Foundation have formally presented Hermosa Beach environmental activist Dency Nelson with the top prize in a countywide “Earth Month Heroes” contest, earning a $1,000 donation to PlugInAmerica, a nonprofit coalition of electric car drivers and advocates of energy independence and clean air. Word of the announcement leaked out last week. For […]
Around Hermosa Beach
In memoriam In memory of Art Rutherford, the first of 10 defibrillators donated by his widow, Kathy Rutherford, was installed, at the Hermosa Beach Community Center. The defibrillator is located outside the HB 50 Senior Center. Art Rutherford was the founder of the Emergency Operations Commission. Beach cleaning The Keller Williams Beach Cities realty firm […]