Redondo’s off-year elections draw crowded fields for council, schools

Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand will face three challengers in the March 2 city election. The election will also see Redondo Beach residents voting to fill three council seats, the city attorney’s position and three vacant seats on the Redondo Beach Unified School District Board of Education. Unlike neighboring cities, Redondo did not align its […]

Stay at home order prompts reduced Street sweeping fines

Residents will get a “holiday present” from Redondo Beach city officials after council members decided Tuesday during their last meeting of the year to reduce fines for parking violations issued on street-cleaning days. The new policy will start Monday and end December 31. Stay-at-home orders by state and county health officials prompted the move, with […]

Friendship Campus imagines the ‘unimaginable’

    by Rachel Reeves Twelve years ago, Rabbi Yossi Mintz had a dream.  Mintz, the founder and director of the Jewish Community Center Chabad of the South Bay, envisioned a state-of-the-art facility where cutting-edge research, technology, and expertise would help people with special needs carve pathways into society.  Statistics pointed to a need for […]