Halloween full moon is first since WWII
According to Jeffrey Hunt, astronomy educator and former planetarium director at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, Illinois, the last Halloween full moon visible around the globe came in 1944. The next one according to Hunt isn’t due until 2039. This year it was also a “Blue Moon,” not because it was blue, but […]
New century makeover
Hans Frederick Bernard Roessler, or Fred as he preferred to be known, was the driver behind the incorporation of Palos Verdes Estates in 1939. He became the city’s first mayor and served for 25 years. While Frank Vanderlip is recognized as the Father of Palos Verdes, Roessler is the Father of Palos Verdes […]
Peninsula Biden/Harris rally inspires rallies across country
Story and photos submitted #ResponsibleRallies After Joe Biden was declared winner of the presidential election, Peninsula native Whitney Cicero texted her friend Kim Rhodes, “I just want to stand on a corner and wave my flag.” Rhodes, a recent transplant from Philadelphia, responded, “I’ll come with you.” And then added, “But hold on, there […]
High school gig
Some people knit blankets as they sheltered in place from the novel coronavirus; others made cakes. College students Alex Fantappiè and Matt Hashimoto, both recent graduates of Peninsula High, made a startup. “I think the quarantine was — well, obviously it sucked,” said Hashimoto, a junior at UC Berkeley, where he studies computer science. […]
Dear Dr. Allen: Exercises to strengthen the kid/parent connection
In our society, there has always been a disconnect between parents and their kids. In some families it is minimal and in some a great divide. The difference in the generations naturally creates this also. The emphasis on independence facilitates a separateness in relations. This disconnect has grown with the infusion, or should I […]
All Ball Sports: USC fights on and on, Bruins look like Kelly’s team, Goff on, Herbert off
So many questions. So many right answers. So far. Could the USC football team win a game when its best player, sophomore quarterback Kedon Slovis, played awful ball for most of the game? Could USC Coach Clay Helton guide his team to another fantastic finish over yet another unranked team it was expected to demolish? […]
EDUCATION: Teachers seek to delay MBUSD TK-2 program until after holidays
The Manhattan Beach Unified School District has received LA County authorization to begin part-time, in-person instruction again for students in transitional kindergarten through second grade. But the district’s teachers union, concerned by a countywide spike in cases and the impact family gatherings over the holidays are likely to have in producing more COVID-19 cases, […]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Manhattan Beach will switch to all renewable energy
The Manhattan Beach City Council Tuesday night moved to opt into the Clean Power Alliance (CPA) upper tier, which will provide 100 percent renewable energy for all commercial and residential users in Manhattan Beach. The decision, which will increase local electric bills by an estimated 7 to 9 percent while reducing citywide greenhouse […]
Porous breakwater prompts city to pursue a third harbor dredging
The City of Redondo Beach has applied for permits to dredge King Harbor. If approved, this will be the third time the harbor has been dredged since 1988. As sediment moves naturally down the coast, it piles up at the breakwater, a porous wall of rocks. Gradually, material gets through, builds up in the […]
Council passes wakeup call for homeless encampments
Hoping to discourage homeless people from establishing encampments in the city, the Redondo Beach City Council amended an existing ordinance to stiffen rules governing times and locations where overnight camping may occur. The first reading of the measure passed 5-0, and will be before the council Dec. 1 for a final vote. Mayor Bill Brand […]
Manhattan Beach parents rally for school reopening
A newly elected school board member, a newly elected Beach Cities Health District board member, two Manhattan Beach Education Foundation board members, a Mira Costa High coach, and two first-year Mira Costa students were among speakers who addressed an estimated 300 parents and their children at a rally Wednesday evening for the “safe opening of schools and sports activities.”
“The Test and the Art of Thinking” – In Conflict [MOVIE REVIEW]
“The Test and the Art of Thinking,” a probing documentary by Michael Arlen Davis, explores the complicated history of the SAT and ACT, tests that still bring shivers to the souls long after they were taken (and mine were taken a long, long, time ago in a galaxy far away). Although proponents of the SAT, […]
Mexican classic exiting, newcomer at Goat Hill, Turkey Day reinvented
Benvenuto To Manhattan Beach: Don’t ask to speak to Chef Nando when you stop in at Nando Milano – the restaurant was named after the owner’s dog, and even if owner Dario Vullo trained it to cook, since it’s a dachshund it can’t reach the stove. The new operation in the former Little Sister location […]
When indoor sculpture ventures outdoors
Sculptures on the move Simon Ouwerkerk puts his pedal to the metal in Manhattan Beach Across the board, artists have been cheated. Cheated from performing in front of a live audience or from having their work viewed in person. Right now there’s a full gallery with sculptures by Simon Ouwerkerk in the Manhattan Beach […]