Redondo Beach

by Garth Meyer Building limits for the Beach Cities Health District will not go on a ballot in November. The Redondo Beach city council voted Tuesday to keep the district’s campus, and similar Public-Institutional zones, separate from a decision on other parts of the city. “Public-Institutional” refers to properties such as school sites, the city […]

Easy Reader 56th Anniversary Writing, Photography, Video and Cartoon Contest Guidelines Presented by Paul’s Photo Best story: $300 Best photograph: Camera Best video: $150 Best cartoon: $100 Submission Deadline: Friday, Thursday, August 6, 2026 Publication date: Thursday, August 13, 2017 Submission requirements: Writings, photographs and cartoons must be submitted by email or on disk or flash drive. Videos […]

by Garth Meyer The new park about to open underneath the giant “Redondo Beach/King Harbor” sign has been named “Bill Brand Gateway Park.” City councilmembers confirmed the name Tuesday night, in honor of the late mayor who died in 2024. The land has been under construction since last fall. Its fences are due to come […]

  By Garth Meyer Building a new police headquarters and two new fire stations took another step forward Tuesday as the Redondo Beach city council chose Swinerton Builders and L.P.A. Design Studios to bring the projects to reality. Contracts approved July 7 call for completion of the initial designs, and to set a maximum price […]

by Kevin Cody I’ve published Easy Reader for over 50 years. It’s fun. A reporter friend described reporting as “play with purpose.” I bike to the end of the Hermosa pier and photograph people fishing. I talk to people along the way, and then write about whether to save the pier, or let it crumble […]

by Garth Meyer Low proportions, wood clapboard siding, and exposed beam ends; all signify Craftsman-style houses in a short stretch of Redondo Beach now christened the “Garnet Historic District.”  One of the homeowners, Laura Martinez, moved in after renting two Craftsman houses in Hermosa Beach. She was evicted from both – so the owners could […]

  by Garth Meyer Professional tennis player, author and coach, the late Dr. Desmond Oon was honored with a banner at the Anderson Park courts on June 20, his birthday. Fellow players and Oon’s son, widow and daughter-in-law gathered for the occasion. Dr. Oon was a Davis Cup player, captain and coach for Singapore in […]

    by Diana MacDougall Two years ago, a then-85-year-old Mary Lou Simms walked up the stairs to the upper deck of the King Harbor Yacht Club and saw a framed collection of portraits honoring the Win’ard Yacht Club Commodores, from 1949 to 1960. The club was founded in 1949, and merged with the Redondo […]

by Nikki Yunker The South Bay has over  200,000 families. It needs a kids’ museum, Redondo Beach mom Christina Domer concluded during the pandemic. During that period she and her young son, who is now seven, visited the New Children’s Museum in San Diego. “We walked in the door and I was just like, ‘Oh […]

by Garth Meyer Top leaders of Continental Development Corp. and Mar Ventures, Inc., sent a letter to the Redondo Beach city council June 25, offering a rejoinder to the May vote by the Beach Cities Health District that chose another proposal to redevelop its campus. Continental Development/Mar Ventures was the original choice by the board […]