Baywatch Community Calendar 2-23-23
American Martyrs 5K The 43rd annual American Martyrs 5K Run/Walk will get underway at 8 a.m. in Manhattan Beach. To register and for more information, go to ams5k.org. Event Spotlight: Happy Hour with History The February installment of the Hermosa Beach Historical Society & Museum’s Happy Hour with History features oral historian Helen Yoshida. Her presentation, […]
Gale force winds challenge SBBC surfers
Photos by Steve Gaffney (SteveGaffney.com) Gale force winds, approaching 20 miles per hour during the South Bay Boardriders/El Porto Surf Shop in El Porto contest two Saturdays ago left announcer Mark Cole at a loss for words. “I’ve said, ‘Challenging conditions’ a hundred times already. I need a new word,” he apologized over the […]
Peninsula veteran Frank Brown buried in Arlington
Images courtesy of Arlington National Cemetery On December 14, 2022, two years after his passing at age 89, Air Force Major Frank Brown, Retd. was interned with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. The service was delayed because of the pandemic. Brown was stationed in Europe and in Southeast Asia during his 21 years […]
Flashing lights, camera, action: Hermosa Beach Police go viral
by Kevin Cody The Hermosa Police Department’s Facebook and Instagram posts were so lame in their early days that Lieutenant Landon Phillips, who helped form the program’s social media team in 2018, had trouble enlisting fellow officers to work on it. After some thought, he traced the problem to himself and his superiors. “Every Facebook […]
Top 5 bikinis popular among female surfers
Those living in the northern hemisphere might have a couple of months until it’s time to jump in the water. By starting to browse for bikinis right now, one can avoid the stress of trying to find one during the summer while also having the opportunity to pick up bikinis at great prices. […]
How to Build Your Career in Writing
Writing is more of a skill than a talent. Thus, any skill can be honed, perfected, and paid for. If you feel like taking the writing path and making it a career, you have all the chances of both– developing this skill and making a living with it. Like any other career path, aspiring writers […]
Wind cracks Manhattan Beach Tree; falls on apartment and truck
The strong winds of Wednesday night, February 22 caused a huge tree in Manhattan Beach’s Tree Section to crack and fall over portions of an apartment building and parked truck. The tree lives on the backside of the Pacific Lanai apartment building, at 777 Pacific, and the accident occurred on the 1100 block of Laurel. […]