Posts by Kevin Cody
Portal Schools ribbon cutting in El Segundo true to its disruptive model
Students rap rhapsodic about El Segundo Portal School’s disruptive model
Read More3 candidates withdraw from League of Woman Voters Manhattan Beach School Board Forum tonight, Wednesday, Sept. 21 at Mira Costa High School
Manhattan Beach School Board election forum tonight, Wednesday, September 21 at the Mira Costa High School Small Theater, and streaming live on EasyReaderNews.com
Read MoreHall & Oats, Lumineers, Old Crow, John Doe kick open BeachLife Ranch in Redondo Beach
Hall & Oates, Lumineers, Old Crow Medicine Show are Hither and Yonder in Redondo Beach, at BeachLife Ranch Country and Americana Festival. The festival continues through Sunday, September 18 with headliners Wilco and Brandi Carlile
Read MoreHermosa Beach September 11 memorial a reminder to reunite, Assemblyman Muratsuchi says
“I remember so much paper everywhere, all of it important at one time, but not anymore.” — Manhattan Beach Fire Captain Tim O”Brine recalling recovery efforts at the World Trade Center
Read MoreManhattan Beach reminded all were victims of September 11 attack
Manhattan Beach remembers how all suffered from September 11 attack during a remembrance ceremony at the City’s September 11 memorial .
Read MoreHap Jacobs shaped more than surfboards. He shaped strong men and women
Photos by Mike Balzer Photos by Brent Broza (BrozaPhoto.com) Photos by Wright Adaza Photos by Kevin Cody/Easy Reader Dudley “Hap” Jacobs is acknowledged, along with fellow Hermosa Beach surfboard shapers Greg Noll, Dewey Weber, and Bing Copeland, as among the greatest shapers from surfing’s Golden Era, in the late ’50s and early ’60s. But Jacobs’…
Read MoreBrighter Ukraine fundraiser, in El Segundo, to send aid container to war zone
The “Sound of Ukraine” Music + Art fest, a fundraiser to help the Brighter Ukraine Foundation send a container of humanitarian aid to Ukraine, will be held Saturday, September 10 at 7 p.m. at Unita, in El Segundo. Brighter Ukraine was founded by AVP 0pen player Arina Gerasimova, who grew up in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, one…
Read MoreHermosa Police Chief, BCHD CEO in hot water, behind bars
Hermosa Beach Police Chief Paul LeBaron, and Beach Cities Health District CEO Tom Bakaly were in deep water, repeatedly, on Saturday, after volunteering for the Fiesta Hermosa Dunk Tank. They were joined by School Superintendent Jason Johnson, Mayor Mike Detoy, and council candidate Kieran Harrington. Sunday’s Dunk Tank volunteers are Solange Corner, of Cultured Slice…
Read MoreFirst takes fifth Catalina Classic title in race from Catalina Island to Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach native Max First calls his fifth Catalina Classic Paddleboard race title, from Catalina Island to the Manhattan Beach pier, his toughest race ever.
Read MoreEl Segundo Art Walk matures
Seven years after its founding, the El Segundo Art Walk has evolved into a revered local, and even regional institution, while keeping that sense of unexpected wonder.
Read MoreMBee Fest at Tower 12 benefits Mira Costa students with epilepsy
Penny Royal’s Slater Heidrich (pictured) was joined by singer/actor Orion Askinosie at MBee Fest, a fundraiser for epilepsy, held at Tower 12 in Hermosa Beach.
Read MoreHermosa police find balancing electric bike enforcement difficult
Nationwide, police are caught in the middle of the e-bike debate. Locally, the debate is focused on kids on e-bikes, and e-bikes on The Strand. Nationally, it’s over e-bikes on hiking trails, where use increased 50 percent during the pandemic, according to the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.
Read MoreRedondo Beach Friendship Campus breaks ground for the future of Special Ed kids
“If you want to light a candle, if you want to inspire other people, first you need to be a candle yourself,” Rabbi Yossi Mintz said at the Friendship Campus groundbreaking last week in Redondo Beach.
Read MoreVin Scully knocks it out of the park in Redondo Beach
We always think of the hitter, but rarely the pitcher,” Vin Scully said. Then he told the story behind the story of Bobby Thompson’s home run “shot heard around the world” that cost the Dodgers the 1951 National League Pennant .
Read MoreBill Russell, Vin Scully: Two giants leave the stadium
by Paul Teetor Back in the day – way back in the day, like 500 years ago – some underpaid sportswriter hack named Willie “The Bard” Shakespeare laid out the raw facts of life, for athletes and non-athletes alike: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their…
Read MoreHermosa Beach Council votes to allow cannabis home delivery
“We know where the community is at.” — Hermosa Beach Councilman Justin Massey, commenting on community support for allowing cannabis home delivery
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