Hermosa Beach considers strategies to repay $17.5M in aftermath of Measure O

Measure O’s overwhelming defeat at the polls on March 3 came with a price tag. A grassroots campaign defeated E&B Natural Resources’ proposal to drill for oil at the city’s maintenance yard by a 4-1 ratio, emphatically rejecting potentially millions of dollars in city revenues in favor of upholding the city’s ban on oil drilling. […]

Firing line

Mira Costa teacher Timothy Hirsh waits for the school board to reconsider its decision to fire him at the March 18 meeting. Photo by Caroline Anderson

Students, parents and teachers speak out, but the Manhattan Beach school board upholds its decision to fire a popular teacher