South Bay Community Calendar 7-14-2016 – 7-21-2016

South Bay Community Calendar 7-14-2016 – 7-21-2016 Thursday, July 14 AVP Manhattan Open Volleyball Tournament The “Wimbledon of Beach Volleyball” is second only to the Olympics in prestige among volleyball players. Open winners are memorialized with bronze plaques on the Manhattan Pier Volleyball Walk of Fame. Qualifications Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. Main Draw […]

Letter to the Editor 7-14-2016

  Letter to the Editor 7-14-2016 Learn from the past Dear ER: I read with interest the letter to the editor last week regarding cancelling the Manhattan Beach March, 2017 election for city council members and treasurer and changing the local election to coincide with the state and national elections held in November of each […]

Homeless woman attacks Redondo Beach police officer with knife at Galleria

Redondo Beach Police

A Redondo Beach Police Officer was attacked with a knife at the South Bay Galleria on Wednesday while attempting to escort a homeless woman off of mall property. Sgt. Edward Jackson responded to a call placed by Galleria security around 12:45 p.m., according to RBPD Lt. Fabien Saucedo. A woman was reportedly  causing a disturbance in […]

2016 Meeting of the Guild at Naja’s Place

By Ed Solt All photos More commonly known, tongue-in-cheek, as the “Battle of the Guild,” the Meeting of the Guild is the climax of LA Beer Week, the region’s week-long celebration of local craft beer. In its eighth year, #LABW8 (as its known on social media) is organized by the Los Angeles Brewers Guild. The “LABG” and […]

A ‘Living Museum’ at Hermosa Beach Butterfly Garden

The Monarch butterfly may have a regal name, but it is just as vulnerable as the rest of its light-winged brethren. That’s the lesson that local girl scouts and students at Hermosa View have drawn from the butterfly habitat erected on a corner of campus. School may be out for the summer, but caterpillars continue […]

Net gain

Mira Costa High School junior Piper Monk-Heidrich focuses on beach volleyball and a future at UCLA   Racing down the slopes on her snowboard, 10-year-old Piper Monk-Heidrich was doing her best to keep up with her older sister Indigo, an Olympic hopeful  training for a berth on the U.S. Snowboarding 2014 Winter Olympics team. But […]