Hermosa Beach council okays cannabis delivery, but not to City Hall
by Kevin Cody Hermosa Beach has become the first of the three Beach Cities to legalize home, and business delivery of cannabis. An ordinance allowing the delivery of cannabis in Hermosa Beach, with the exception of schools, parks, and city hall, was approved on a 3 to 2 vote by the city council at its […]
Hermosa writer draws on Sweetwater, Balboa IslandÂ
“St. James Infirmary,” by Steven Meloan (Roadside Press, 78 pp, $15) by Kevin Cody Steve Meloan writes his first memory of Los Angeles upon driving out from the east was “the distant roar of traffic, which I imagined to be the ocean.” Meloan settled for a time in Hermosa Beach, a fact made evident by […]
Cancer Support names new CEO, board president Â
Cancer Support Community South Bay (CSC South Bay) has announced the appointments of Jillian Van Leuven as its new executive director/CEO and Kelli Vieweg as the new president of the board of directors. These leadership transitions follow last year’s relocation to Torrance’s Rolling Hills Plaza after 34 years on the Redondo Beach Pier. CSC South […]
FITNESS: MB 10k donates 16k for new parcourse to City
by Mark McDermott Sometimes a race is more than a race. In 1978, when a group of running enthusiasts got together and decided to organize the inaugural Manhattan Beach 10k, they weren’t thinking about the runners who would be at the lead of the pack. They were thinking about the entire pack, which in this […]
EDUCATION: MBUSD to seek another $225 parcel taxÂ
by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach Unified School District Board of Education will likely pursue a new ballot measure extending the $225 parcel tax approved by voters in 2018. That parcel tax, approved by 69 percent of voters and known as Measure MB, generates $2.5 million annually and expires next June. The new parcel tax, […]