Miserable conditions make for memorable SB Paddle at the Hermosa Beach pier
by Kevin Cody Photos by Jefferson Graham After Andrew Amenta completed the 15-mile South Bay Paddle Saturday morning in three hours, 40 minutes and 39 seconds, his wife Alyson asked him how he felt. “It wasn’t like the pictures,” he answered. Amenta is from San Luis Obispo. He trains in Morro Bay, and is used […]
First Webb telescope images coming in July
The first full-color images from the Webb telescope will be released July 12, NASA announced Wednesday. Early alignment of the telescope’s mirrors/camera have shown an unprecedented sharpness. The new images in July will be the first to reveal full capabilities. “Our goals for the first images and data are both to showcase the telescope’s powerful […]
New Redondo Beach author Ashton Politanoff chronicles town’s past
by Garth Meyer Grasshoppers blew in to Redondo Beach from the southwest. Young boys gathered and sold them for chicken feed. Whale meat was available too, the papers said. Almost a hundred years later, a young man sat in a car in a mostly empty parking lot of the former Columbia Pictures studios in Culver […]