Search Results: best of the beach 2018
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa boys basketball team took a huge step towards winning the Bay League title Friday night when it went on the road and crushed second place Culver City by a score of 65-48. The Mustangs are now 21-1 overall and 6-0 in the league. They are on pace to post…
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Power play on The Strand Dear ER: Neither your article nor Hermosa Beach Police Chief Paul LeBaron acknowledge that electric bikes are illegal on The Strand, no matter who is riding them, or what speed they are ridden at if their motors are engaged (“Greening too much of a good thing, Council finds, ER Dec.…
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by Paul Teetor Maile Nakaji’s reputation as a great basketball player at Manhattan Beach Middle School preceded her arrival at Mira Costa High School. The clever ball handler, dead-eye shooter, and great rebounder for her size, showed all the tools while still in 8th grade. “We knew all about her,” Costa Coach Jeff Herdman said.…
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by Paul Teetor Steve Nash is the luckiest man in professional sports. Wait. What? Is that the same Steve Nash who was fired/terminated/mutually agreed to part ways as the head coach of the New Jersey Nets last week? Yep. It’s the very same 10-year Manhattan Beach resident who will return to his seaside home free…
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by Stephanie Cartozian and Kevin Cody Even a casual reading of the many magazine, and online articles about Peninsula High graduate Hillary Taymour invoke images of a strong-willed, defiant, Type A personality. The irony is those are the qualities Taymour rebelled against when she left the Peninsula for West Hollywood to become a fashion designer,…
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by Garth Meyer As results came in after presstime for Wednesday’s Redondo Beach special election, it marked the close of a chapter in the saga of a handful of men aiming to bring legal cannabis stores to the South Bay. The face of that effort became Elliot Lewis, CEO of the Long Beach-based Catalyst Cannabis…
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Legal firepower Dear ER: When Manhattan Beach Mayor Steve Napolitano was stalled in his decision to approve or deny the Highrose/Verandas project, he indicated he was seeking a legal path that would allow a possible denial of the project. Through hard work and determination, a group of residents was able to enlist one of the…
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by Mark McDermott The three candidates who appeared at last week’s League of Women Voters school board candidate forum were largely in agreement regarding many of the issues facing the Manhattan Beach Unified School District, including the need to aggressively counter the recent spate of hate crimes on MBUSD campuses, and to arrive at a…
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by Garth Meyer Keith Ellison, an Inglewood kid whose mother worked as a supervisor for the Redondo Beach Post Office, and who starred in football at RUHS, played at Oregon State, and in the NFL, is back as head coach of the Sea Hawks. Ellison was Redondo Union High’s defensive coordinator from 2012 to 2020…
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by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach City Council will decide Tuesday whether to allow Project Verandas to proceed, or to uphold any or all of the five citizen appeals against the 79-unit apartment complex, inviting an uphill legal fight in hopes of upending state housing law. Two council members, Suzanne Hadley, and Joe Franklin, announced…
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Penny Royal’s Slater Heidrich (pictured) was joined by singer/actor Orion Askinosie at MBee Fest, a fundraiser for epilepsy, held at Tower 12 in Hermosa Beach.
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Los Angeles is an amazing area with history (downtown and Pasadena), culture (Hollywood) and fantastic ocean beach cities (Manhattan Beach, Hermosa, Redondo, Torrance.) But if you were to come visit me from out of town, and ask me to take you to the most breathtaking place to visit in all of L.A., I’d easily throw…
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Lifeguard Medal of Valor recipient Nick Wapner rescued Hawaiian pro surfer Josh Moniz at Portuguese Pipeline.
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by Paul Teetor Are you wondering why USC and UCLA shocked the sports world Friday by announcing they are leaving the PAC-12 Conference to join the Big Ten in 2024? Well, it’s not complicated. They’re following the money. Forget all the blather coming from both SoCal schools about “shared values” with the Midwest-based Big Ten…
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Gang of four Dear ER: Mayor Bill Brand should have done the right thing and vetoed passing over Emdee as mayor pro tem (“Redondo Beach City Council opts out of rotation, appoints Nehrenheim as mayor pro-tem,” ER 6 23, 2022). I think Brand, and council members Zein Obagi, Nils Nehrenheim, and Todd Lowestein were afraid…
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by Mark McDermott Measure A, a $1,095 parcel tax proposed by a citizen’s initiative, was emphatically rejected by Manhattan Beach voters in Tuesday’s election. The measure was opposed by 68.8 percent, a total of 4,830 voters, with 31.20 voting in favor, or 2,190 voters. Councilperson Joe Franklin, a leading voice opposing Measure A, said that…
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