Posts by Rachel Reeves
Redondo loses first round in power plant extension fight
by Rachel Reeves The Statewide Advisory Committee on Cooling Water Intakes Structures (SACCWIS) voted, 6-1, last Friday to recommend to the State Water Board that the AES power plant in Redondo Beach be allowed to continue operating through the end of 2023. The committee’s mandate is to assess whether the Once-Through Cooling Policy — a…
Read MoreRedondo Beach Community Garden the tip of political iceberg
by Rachel Reeves Brianna Egan, 25, scanned her notes as she prepared for her presentation before the Redondo Beach City Council. She was pitching a community garden on city land, something she had been envisioning since returning home after a year volunteering with AmeriCorps, educating kids in rural towns about nutrition. Egan, who’s studying toward…
Read MoreVote count scheduled for Friday, off-year election turnout faulted
by Rachel Reeves City Clerk Eleanor Manzano announced at this week’s Redondo Beach City Council meeting that results from the Mar. 2 municipal election will be tabulated on Friday. Manzano said her team of 10 people has been working “non-stop” since the election to verify signatures on ballots postmarked by election day. “We were inundated,”…
Read MorePolice containment captures four suspects in Redondo Beach shooting death
by Rachel Reeves An all-night search involving 12 police departments, helicopters, and drones ended Sunday morning with four suspects being apprehended for their possible connection to a fatal shooting that occurred around 8 p.m. Saturday in South Redondo Beach. The victim, whose identity has yet to be confirmed, died of multiple gunshot wounds to the…
Read More‘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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