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Happy Holidays!
Sandpipers host 27th Annual Holiday Home Tour
The 27th Annual Sandpipers Holiday Homes Tour, featuring four stunning homes made more stunning by local holiday home designers takes place this Friday through Sunday in Manhattan Beach. The tour will benefit local charities and families in need of emergency financial assistance. Tour hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, […]
Young Mustangs play like vets against Gondoliers
The Mira Costa boys basketball team got its Pac Shores Tournament off to a rousing start Monday night with a dramatic, two-point, come-from-behind win over Venice in the first round of pool play. Year two of Head Coach Neal Perlmutter’s rebuild of Costa’s traditionally mediocre basketball program got a jolt of rocket fuel this year […]
Hermosa Beach About Town
Open house, tree lighting Hermosa will host a full slate of holiday festivities Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m. with the sand snowman contest north of the Pier. Later, starting at 11 a.m., merchants in downtown will have deals and displays throughout the afternoon. Then, starting at 5 p.m., the tree lighting ceremony on Pier Plaza […]
Hermosa Beach Police Beat
Hit-and-run suspect tailed A motorist was arrested late last month after allegedly hitting another driver then attempting to flee the scene. The suspect, 23-year-old Kevin Castellon, struck another car at the intersection of 10th Street and Hermosa Avenue in the early morning hours of Nov. 22, said Sgt. Robert Higgins of the Hermosa Beach Police […]
Scriven second in State cross Country meet
Last Saturday, one week after finishing first and second in the Girls Division III CIF Southern Section cross country championships in Riverside, Palos Verdes High seniors Savannah Scriven and Samantha Steman finished second and sixth in the Division III State Championships in Fresno. Their times of 17:22.5 and 18.7.4 carried their team to fourth place […]
Redondo Beach About Town
This week’s 2019 Santa Sleigh Schedule The Redondo Beach Police Officers Association Santa Sleigh — an annual tradition in which police escort Santa Claus around Redondo Beach neighborhoods — has started on its tour of the city, beginning on Dec. 2. According to RBPOA, this is a chance for residents to come out of their homes, […]
Manhattan Beach Police Beat
International drug bust Manhattan Beach Police Department Detective Don Brown was recently recognized at the White House, where he received the 2018 Land Interdiction and Apprehension Award. The City Council recognized Brown at this week’s meeting. Brown was assigned to a regional police effort to combat drug trafficking, called the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police […]
Manhattan Beach About Town
Blankets of Love Blankets of Love, a local non-profit that makes and delivers blankets to children in need, this month celebrated its 2,000th blanket. The group was recognized at City Council on Tuesday. Founder Cyndi Strand launched the effort in 2016 following the death of her son, Justin, to opioid overdoses. Justin was a Mira […]
South Bay arts calendar for Dec. 5 to 11
Thursday, December 5 The way it was “Robi Hutas: Classic Photographs and Watercolors” is on view at Richard Stephens/Cannery Row Studios, in The Loft at 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro. Open during the First Thursday Art Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Hutas has chronicled life and sports in the South Bay, especially in […]