Posts by Rachel Reeves
‘Frankie the Ficus’ saved from the saw, at least for now
by Rachel Reeves Mara Lang grew up in a Tree City, or a place where the local government has ordinances for protecting trees. Magnolias, planted around the same time as most homes, in the 1920s, shaded the sidewalks of her neighborhood. Lang, now the vice president of the South Bay Parkland Conservancy, later moved to…
Read More‘P’ is for ‘E’ and ‘P’ is for ‘Problem’ at RBPO
by Rachel Reeves A change in the Redondo Beach Post office address system that resulted in Avenue E being renamed Avenue P led to an angry discussion between a postal official and the Redondo Beach Council at Tuesday’s city council meeting. The one thing both sides did agree on is there is no Avenue P…
Read MoreRedondo Beach City Council: 7 candidates for seats in Districts 1, 2 and 4
Redondo Beach is on the cusp of the biggest changes since King Harbor was completed in 1966. The 56-acre AES Power Plant, the Waterfront and the Galleria are all poised to redeveloped in the next few years. The council elected on March 2 will decide what the new developments look like.
Read MoreTorrance Fisherman Mark Paulson lost at sea, search finds boat, PFD off Peninsula
by Rachel Reeves At about 3:30 p.m. last Tuesday, a call came into the Redondo Beach Harbor Patrol about a boater in distress. The boater, Mark Paulson, a fisherman and water service operator for the City of Torrance, was in a small, motorized boat like those outerlimits boats for sale. “The weather that day was…
Read MoreRescue riders
Horse-loving families restore the long-neglected Palos Verdes Stables Once or twice a week for three years, Megan Padilla drove her daughters to Palos Verdes to ride horses. The commute from Manhattan Beach transported Padilla back a world she had left decades earlier. She’d been a “horse girl” growing up in Lunada Bay. She competed around…
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