Posts by Kevin Cody
‘Legal Diva’ Loredana Nesci found dead in North Redondo home, boyfriend charged with murder
Reality television star and “Legal Diva” Loredana Nesci was found dead today in her North Redondo Beach home. Robert Reagan, her partner and father of the couple’s five-year-old child, was arrested at the scene and has been charged with murder. There are no other suspects, according to police. Redondo Beach Police officers responded to the home,…
Read MoreCrossFit Games hits the water in Hermosa Beach [PHOTOS]
Elite CrossFit athletes from around the world swam and paddled at the Reebok Cross 2015 Games in Hermosa Beach Wednesday morning.
Read MoreCape Point project in South Redondo Beach faces denial
For the second time in less than a week, a potential Redondo Beach mixed-use development is on the road toward being denied by city decision-makers. At Tuesday’s Redondo Beach City Council meeting, a public hearing regarding the Cape Point project at 1914-1926 Pacific Coast Highway was continued by the council until next month, intended to…
Read MoreRedondo Beach Police investigating ‘foul play’, possible homicide
The Redondo Beach Police Department is investigating the early morning death of a woman in North Redondo. RBPD suspects foul play in her death, and is treating the case as a homicide. Police were called around 7:20 a.m. to a residence in the 1900 block of Nelson Avenue, where they found a deceased woman. Redondo…
Read More‘Surplus ordnance’ washes up on Redondo Beach
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department blew up an unusual package in Redondo Beach Tuesday afternoon, when a container marked as military surplus explosives was discovered in the water by Redondo Beach Harbor Patrol. The controlled detonation took place at about 1 p.m. The 18-inch square container was found around 10 a.m., about 200 yards offshore by Harbor Patrol,…
Read MoreLegado Redondo mixed-use project faces its end
For all their adherence to code and work with Redondo Beach’s planning department, the Legado Companies’ inability to build trust with its neighbors may cause its downfall, according to the Redondo Beach Planning Commission. On July 16, the commission moved forward with steps to deny the company’s proposed mixed-use project on 1700 South Pacific Coast…
Read MoreChevron grants STEM learning, in a good way
Chevron El Segundo has contributed $1.3 million during the current school year for STEM programs at 16 South Bay school districts. It has contributed over $8 million to local schools in the past six years.
Read MoreHal Hiner, Easy Reader co-founder remembered
Hal Hiner, a founder of Easy Reader in 1970 and gifted artist, passed away Sunday, July 12 at his home in Yucca Valley from cancer.
Read MoreRedondo wetlands complicate power plant plans
The future of the AES power plant appears to hinge on how significant the California Energy Commission deems the wetlands that existed at the site more than a century ago. That was among the central points the July 9 California Coastal Commission meeting at which a staff report on the AES site was presented and…
Read MoreA Special Opportunity: the Beach Cities welcome Special Olympians
Host Town Manhattan Beach began as a hopeful thought floating through the minds of longtime Special Olympics volunteers. John Peetz, a board member of Special Olympics Southern California, returned home from a meeting last year regarding the Los Angeles World Games. Intrigued by the idea of the Special Olympics Host Town program discussed at that…
Read MoreLetters 07/16/15
Blue Heron harbor Dear ER: It is a violation of state and federal law to trim or cut trees or shrubs while Night Herons and Great Blue Herons are nesting, but there are regular violations of these laws in the South Bay. Two years ago, palms on the Esplanade were trimmed drastically after the Night…
Read MoreCasa de los Amigos residents raise pennies for pines
From the comfort of their motor scooters, Casa de los Amigos residents Ellen Jordan and Anita Boyance are working to help replant California’s wildfire-ravaged forests — one penny at a time. Jordan and Boyance, who have made themselves into community event planners at the South Redondo retirement home, took it upon themselves two months ago…
Read MoreLetters 07/09/15
Sewer level math Dear ER: Now that Hermosa council members Pete Tucker, Michael DiVirgilio, Carolyn Petty and Hany Fangary have scammed their million-dollar annual sewer tax onto the backs of Hermosa’s property owners (on top of the $2.5 Million ‘Utility User’s Tax’ still paid annually after 30 years), the very least these politicians should do,…
Read More45th Anniversary Easy Reader Writing and Photography Contest
Easy Reader 45th Anniversary Writing and Photography Contest: Thursday, August 13 Best story: $500 Best photographs: 1st prize: $500 Paul’s Photo gift certificate 2nd prize: $300 Paul’s Photo gift certificate 3rd prize: $200 Paul’s Photo gift certificate Deadline: Photos and stories must be submitted no later then Monday, August 3. Photo awards presentation and exhibit…
Read MoreRedondo’s Seaside Lagoon users get parking fee break
The Redondo Beach City Council restructured parking payment rates by the waterfront in what was the biggest action during an otherwise breezy meeting. The new resolution was made to adjust a previously-adopted resolution, with the aim of giving a break to users of Redondo Beach Marina’s surface parking lot, particularly for users of the city’s…
Read MoreThe Making and Unveiling of Hermosa Beach’s “Great wave” [VIDEO]
On June 28, the Hermosa Beach Mural Committee unveiled the 75-foot-long, 19-foot tall “Great Wave” on the side of the Underground Pub and Grill in downtown Hermosa Beach. The committee commissioned Van Hamersveld last December, in the words of its theme committee, to paint the “surfing lifestyle that gave those living here a sense of…
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