About Town Redondo: Mayor Brand memorial Sunday, Northrop Grumman layoffs, RBUSD attendance
Public memorial ceremony for Mayor Brand is Sunday The city will hold a memorial for the late Mayor Bill Brand on March 3, at 2 p.m. at the Redondo Union High School auditorium. Brand died Feb. 9 after nearly two terms as mayor, and two terms on city council. He had been a local activist before that, working for open space in the city as a co-founder of South Bay Parkland Conservancy, and an opponent of development projects on the waterfront and the AES power plant site. His efforts to shut down the plant culminated in a ceremony to do so on New Year’s Eve of last year. Brand first arrived in Redondo Beach as an eight-year-old in 1966. Up to 1,000 layoffs at Northrop Grumman after Space Force project canceled Northrop Grumman announced Feb. 27 a pending cut of as many as 1,000 jobs in Redondo Beach. The news followed the cancellation of a classified U.S. Space Force satellite communications project. The company filed a WARN notice with the state Employment Development Department, regarding employees at its 110-acre Space Park campus in north Redondo. Northrop Grumman spokesman Jacob Palenske said in a Feb. 27 statement that executives are looking to place affected employees into…
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