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No riot going on: Black Lives Matter comes to Manhattan Beach
Twenty minutes before noon on Tuesday, protesters began streaming down Manhattan Beach Boulevard. They mostly walked single file, or in small groups, and were mostly young; some were African-American, some Latino, a few white, a few older. They were uniformly disciplined. Some greeted the police officers who had cordoned off the street. Mayor Richard Montgomery watched from the parking lot overlooking the pier. …
Protest portfolio: Black Lives Matter march from Manhattan Beach pier to Hermosa Beach pier
Former Mira Costa High students Malachi McMahon, Dalia Feliciano, and Jemal Williams organized a Black Lives Matter protest that drew over 1,000 people to the Manhattan Beach Pier Tuesday afternoon.…
Manhattan Beach retailers board up windows as precaution against rioters
Half a dozen Manhattan Beach stores boarded up their windows over the weekend as a precaution against smash and grab rioters. Among the stores that proactively boarded up their windows and closed their doors were Skechers, Manhattan Grocery, Ercoles bar, Tabula Rasa Essentials and Bo Bridges Gallery.…
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The Jericho runners: pandemic doesn’t slow Mira Costa High track stars
Last Friday, the Bay League High School Track and Field Finals were to be held under the lights at the Redondo Union High Sea Hawk Bowl. For most of the runners, the finals would be their last track meet. For top runners, like Mira Costa senior miler Billy Atkinson, league finals would be a last chance to set a school record and catch the attention of college coaches. …
Promising Mira Costa, Redondo Union prep seasons spiked
The Mira Costa boys volleyball team began the 2020 season ranked number one in the CIF Southern Section. The team quickly justified the ranking with an opening, 10-0 run. Then, as it did for all other prep teams in California, their season ended.…
Coach Palisin earns degree, goes to Oxford, leads team to playoffs
Five years ago Chris Palisin charted a mid-life course-correction that paid off big-time for himself -- and for Oxford Academy, the academic powerhouse in Cypress where the long-time Hermosa Beach resident was named the new head basketball coach last spring.…
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Surfer Spotlight: Chasing Big Barrels With Matt Mohagen
By Brad Jacobson (Mad Video Lab) Surfer Spotlight. In this episode of “Surfer Spotlight”…
Surfing in the South Bay with Matt Pagan
by Brad Jacobson Matt Pagan and I have chased swells across the South Bay…
Not all is at it appears during beach shutdown in Hermosa Beach
Not all is at it appears in this photo of a Great Blue Heron and a perfect wave during the coronavirus beach shutdown in Hermosa Beach.…
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Distance dining, Mediterranean style [restaurant review]
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One casualty of the pandemic is the death of spontaneous dining. Two months ago,…
South Bay restaurants have reopened
On Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach Saturday, it was just another busy summer day at most of the newly reopened restaurants. …
New beginnings, new menus, old ideas [dining news]
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Signs Of Life: For two months the news has been all about closings, but…
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Lucy Bradanovic Agid, sculptor
A life carved in stone Ninety years with sculptor Lucy Bradanovic Agid by Bondo…
“And We Go Green” – and really fast [MOVIE REVIEW]
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by Neely Swanson “And We Go Green” is the fascinating story of a new…
Dylanfest 30: Live-streaming this weekend
Come rain or shine or virus, Dylanfest is here Live-streamed Friday through Sunday by…
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Easy Reader founder reflects on the purpose of community newspapers
Fifty years ago, not long out of college, I put out a call for volunteers to help staff an upstart newspaper in Hermosa Beach, hoping to provide an alternative to entrenched local publications that favored big growth and the political status quo.…
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Obituaries 
Councilwoman Horrell was known as Steel Magnolia
Former Redondo Beach councilwoman and long time Realtor Mary Kathleen “Kay” Horrell…
Redondo Beach Councilwoman and Realtor Kay Horrell was known as ‘Steel Magnolia’
Former Redondo Beach councilwoman and long time Realtor Mary Kathleen "Kay" Horrell passed away Tuesday February 11, at age 94.…
The South Bay’s Mother Teresa
Nikki Tedesco, the “Mother Teresa of the South Bay,” will be remembered…
Redondo stylist Pritzkat passes
Popular Riviera Village stylist Wynn Pritzkat passed away Jan. 12 from…
Ellen Goetz was Hermosa Woman of the Year
Ellen Goetz passed away peacefully on December 2 in the Hermosa Beach home that she built during her years as a real estate developer. She was 88.…
‘Perfect Merc’ McFarlane, Hermosa Beach pioneer lifeguard passes on
From the time John McFarlane became a Los Angeles County lifeguard in 1951, until a decade after his retirement 32 years later, whenever he had a vacation or a day off, he surfed…
Passing of Body Glove’s, Dive N’ Surf’s Patty Meistrell marks end of a dynasty, end of an era
The passing of Patty Meistrell, the First Lady of Body Glove and Dive N' Surf marks the end of a dynasty and of an era.…
Hermosa Beach’s ‘Turkey Jon’ Burt remembered as beach icon
Over the past five decades, “Turkey Jon” Burt was as favorite a Hermosa Beach fixture as The Strand where he rode his bike daily.…
Audiologist Lee Parker, of Manhattan Beach, was a born listener
The first clue Dr. Lee Parker’s funeral at American Martyrs last Friday would be emotional was the handkerchiefs handed mourners as they filled the church. But knowing Dr. Parker loved celebrations and New Orleans, the handkerchiefs also signaled a celebration was at hand.…