Manhattan Beach City Council adopts 2018-19 budget
The biggest financial decision the City Council makes each year is the adoption of the city’s $75 million budget, which was unanimously approved Tuesday night after a final public hearing on the matter at which not a single member of the public spoke. “We had more people show up to discuss Park and Rec fees […]
Fourth of July RAT Beach fireworks in limbo
Due to short notice and the advice of public safety officials, the Redondo Beach City Council elected to not take on a revived South Redondo fireworks tradition after months of planning and fundraising, despite repeated well-wishes from its council members and mayor. The show, scheduled for the Fourth of July, would have returned Independence Day […]
City opens call for artists to design new Hermosa Beach logo
Hermosa Beach is asking local artists for help in updating the city logo. The existing logo is an off-center “Hb” within an Impressionistic rendering of the Vetter Windmill on Pacific Coast Highway, usually accompanied by a pair of soaring seabirds. The logo was designed in the late 1960s by an unknown city staff member and […]
Goldstein, Nakano are named RB Man, Woman of the Year
Steve Goldstein was commenting to fellow Redondo Chamber board member Ann Garten about the fact that neither of them had ever been honored as Man or Woman of the Year when he was shushed by 2011 Woman of the Year Mickey Marraffino. The reprimand came just as Cris Bennett, the chamber’s 2017 Man of the […]
Valley’s Spurrell will retire after 21 years bringing science to life
Last Friday afternoon, students in Kathy Spurrell’s seventh-grade science class were watching a brief segment of a video about the human body and sloughed off their post-lunch grogginess when they saw a man missing the top of his head. A brain surgery patient was being kept awake during a surgery to remove a small tumor […]