Redondo Beach’s new blue blood
Every weekend, Keith Kauffman hits the same coffee shop with his teenage kids, getting the same order: black coffee, no room for cream. At this point, they ask for his confirmation as a matter of courtesy. Everybody at the shop knows him and knows what he drinks. “I go there all the time, ‘Hey, how’re […]
Local takes over Manhattan Beach library
On January 4, Manhattan Beach resident Melissa McCollum became the new managing librarian of the Manhattan Beach branch of the County of Los Angeles Public Library.
Hermosa Beach Police Beat
Home Damaged A suspect was arrested last Saturday on suspicion of vandalism after entering a Hermosa home and damaging property. The suspect broke a window and a patio barbecue, police said. Officers arrived on the scene, and the suspected resisted arrest, kicking a police car by while being placed in the vehicle. The suspect was […]
About Town in Hermosa Beach
Wild weather High winds tore through Hermosa Beach Sunday afternoon, nearly lifting the roof off a downtown restaurant. Winds gusting in excess of 40 mph destabilized the roof on the upstairs patio at Hennessey’s Tavern on the southwest edge of Pier Plaza, said Captain James Crawford of the Hermosa Beach Fire Department. “It had come […]
Hermosa Beach couple brew up new machine for quick, tasty coffee
The kitchen sink in Jenni Morse’s apartment had clogged. Again. The culprit was coffee; grounds from Morse’s French press, to be exact. “My landlord had to tell me twice to stop putting grounds down the sink,” she said. The incident was inspired in equal parts by Morse’s insistence on quality coffee, and the burdensome cleanup […]
Letters 2/04/16
Island in the shopping center Dear ER: “Pen-in-su-la (noun): a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting into a body of water.” What does that mean to us? Since we live in Redondo Beach, at the base of the Palos Verdes peninsula, it means that for just about anyone to get to the […]