Fireworks coming back to Fourth of July
The Redondo Beach City Council has emphatically decided that it will err on the side of history and not repeat last year’s mistakes, asking staff to investigate holding its annual Independence Day fireworks display on July 4 once again in 2019. This time, however, the city will look into launching the fireworks from outside of […]
City approves Monstad Pier lease deal
The Monstad Pier, the historical southernmost timber portion of the Redondo Municipal Pier, will soon change hands owing to the approval to a lease modification and blessing of the deal by Redondo Beach City Council on Tuesday evening. The Monstad Pier will become the second piece of Redondo Beach property in the portfolio of developer […]
Hadley and Stern sworn in
Newly elected Councilpersons Suzanne Hadley and Hildy Stern were sworn in Tuesday night, joining Councilperson Nancy Hersman at the dais to become Manhattan Beach’s first female majority City Council. Both are political newcomers who were each deeply involved as parent volunteers within the Manhattan Beach Unified School District. In order to raise their children, each […]
Lesser, Howorth oversaw major changes
A few Tuesdays ago, Amy Howorth walked out of City Hall sometime near the midnight hour, as she has done a couple of hundred times over the last eight years. It suddenly struck her that this post-council feeling, one of equal parts exhilaration and exhaustion, was also uniquely satisfying and something she would miss after […]