Posts by Rachel Reeves
Stephen and Ziggy Marley celebrate father’s lasting legacy at Redondo BeachLife
by Rachel Reeves During the year of the coronavirus pandemic, streams of Bob Marley’s music rose by a percentage of nearly a quarter. If you’ve experienced his art as medicine, as light, as a friend, this probably makes sense to you. “I mean, Bob’s music is the people’s music,” his son, Ziggy Marley, said in…
Read MoreSOUND HEALING: A moment of peace and love descends upon Bruce’s Beach
by Rachel Reeves On a chilly evening last week, before the sun sank into the sea, about 100 people gathered on the grassy Manhattan Beach vista that has become a symbol in a nationwide racial reckoning. Bruce’s Beach, the park overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is now the subject of a bill before the State…
Read MoreCap art a South Redondo sensation
by Rachel Reeves When the coronavirus became a pandemic, two seemingly unrelated things happened for Redondo Beach resident Carol Shreiner. Her news feeds began to fill up with anxious, negative commentary, and her kitchen began to fill up with bags of donated bottle caps. Her solution to the first problem came in a moment of…
Read MoreRedondo Beach waterfront study to include Seaside Lagoon, public boat launch
by Rachel Reeves A public boat launch, reconfiguration of Seaside Lagoon, and a new sport fishing pier are among the Redondo Beach waterfront features to be considered by a plan the city council authorized at its March 16 meeting. An RFP (request for proposals) to develop the plan, which is estimated to cost between $200,000…
Read MoreFirst year Sea Hawk struggles to stretch her wings
Editor’s note: Lucy Davis, a freshman at Redondo Union, reflects on what it has been like to enter high school virtually. by Lucy Davis My parents didn’t take me to school on the first day of high school. That morning was particularly quiet, as far as first days usually go. I made myself breakfast, I…
Read MoreIncumbents ahead in Redondo Beach election
by Rachel Reeves If preliminary results hold, only the board of the Redondo Beach Unified School District will change as a result of this week’s citywide election. Less than half of ballots cast were counted before unofficial numbers were announced, at 11:11 p.m. on Tuesday. According to those numbers, incumbents are ahead in the races…
Read MoreRedondo school board candidate responds to race-tinged attack
A little over a week before the Redondo Beach Unified School District school board election, Kimberlee Isaacs found a message in her Facebook inbox. A friend had sent her a photo of a two-sided flyer. Both sides featured a photo of her face, the one on the yard signs and door hangers she’d been handing…
Read MoreSeanset: Redondo Beach grieves Sean Denhart
by Rachel Reeves There’s a #9 on the pitcher’s mound at Seahawk Stadium. It’s a salute to Sean Denhart, a proud Redondo local who spent some of his most treasured moments there, on that diamond. He died suddenly of heart failure on Dec. 30, two months after the Dodgers won the World Series. He was…
Read MoreRedondo High’s Ziegler is ‘Yearbook Adviser of the Year’
When Mitch Ziegler was offered a job teaching English at Redondo Union High School, in the fall of 1990, it came with a condition he struggled to accept: he would also have to advise the team putting together the school yearbook. “I wanted nothing to do with the yearbook at that point,” he said in…
Read MoreFriendship Campus imagines the ‘unimaginable’
by Rachel Reeves Twelve years ago, Rabbi Yossi Mintz had a dream. Mintz, the founder and director of the Jewish Community Center Chabad of the South Bay, envisioned a state-of-the-art facility where cutting-edge research, technology, and expertise would help people with special needs carve pathways into society. Statistics pointed to a need for…
Read MoreFriendship Campus imagines the ‘unimaginable’
Twelve years ago, Rabbi Yossi Mintz had a dream. Mintz, the founder and director of the Jewish Community Center Chabad of the South Bay, envisioned a state-of-the-art facility where cutting-edge research, technology, and expertise would help people with special needs carve pathways into society. Statistics pointed to a need for this kind of place, and…
Read MoreListen up: One woman’s commitment to Say Their Names
At dusk on a Saturday in October, more than 300 people prostrated themselves on a downtown Los Angeles street. Each held a wooden board or two, painted black and bearing the name, age, and photograph of an Angeleno who was killed by an officer of the Los Angeles Police Department or the L.A. Sheriff’s…
Read MoreRedondo delays campus classes until Jan. 4
The Redondo Beach Unified School District (RBUSD) has postponed the planned reopening of some classrooms from next week to Jan. 4. The district received a TK-2 waiver — an exemption that allows students in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, first, and second grades to return to in-person learning — from the L.A. County Department of Health on…
Read MoreResidents rally at RB post office in support of local postal workers
by Rachel Reeves When David Poster, a 93-year-old veteran of World War II and the Korean War, saw the online invitation to participate in a nationwide rally, he knew he had to be there. Entitled SAVE THE POST OFFICE FROM TRUMP, the notice was circulating via MoveOn.org, imploring the people to show up at a…
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