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For about one minute, Dante Victorino could do no wrong. With music thumping in his earbuds, 17-year-old Victorino nailed every trick during his first heat for the 2018 King of the Harbor Skateboarding Championships, a perfect run in his first-ever skateboard contest, and securing first place in the contest’s elder age bracket. Practicing skateboarding…
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The focus of this year’s Redondo Beach State of Education event was school security and safety, so it makes sense that the night’s most sensitive information was kept a secret even to the city’s top cop. Redondo Beach Police Chief Keith Kauffman was named the 2018 Education Advocate of the Year by the Redondo Beach…
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A series of presentations at Mayor Bill Brand’s summit to discuss possible futures for the AES power plant weren’t so much instruction on what the city and its residents should do once the plant has come down, but inspiration for what’s possible. “Tonight’s the beginning of an education process. It explains what’s at stake and…
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In step with Bollywood choreographer Nakul Dev Mahajan
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Thursday, October 11 Wide-ranging, vibrant “Caminos and Passages,” a solo show devoted to artist, educator, and collector Raoul de la Sota, opens with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. in the El Camino College Art Gallery, located at Crenshaw and Redondo Beach boulevards, Torrance. A gallery talk is set for Tuesday at 1 p.m.…
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Former Redondo Union High School and USC football standout Kevin Ellison passed away last week at the age of 31. Ellison’s brothers, Keith and Chris are assistant football coaches at Redondo Union. Chris Ellison told the Los Angeles Times that Kevin Ellison had been walking along the 5 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley and…
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David Nuuhiwa and fellow Golden Era Hermosa Beach surf stars Mike Purpus and John Joseph were reunited at the Hermosa Beach pier for the Hermosa Beach Hotdogger Championships.
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An educator, a journalist, a volleyball player, and a war hero were recognized as distinguished alumni at Mira Costa High School Sept. 21 in a daylong celebration that included a breakfast and luncheon, two student assemblies, and a cheer for the alums during halftime of the Mustang football game that night. The alumni inducted into…
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Early on in the Hermosa Beach City Council’s Sept. 25 meeting, a member of Leadership Hermosa, there to provide some updates on the coming year’s curriculum, began her remarks by announcing that the power had gone out in a large swath of the city. Newly appointed City Manager Suja Lowenthal quietly got up from…
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Redondo Beach’s SEA Lab recently celebrated its 20th year educating children and visitors about marine life in and around the Santa Monica Bay. But SEA Lab’s next year – much less the next 20 – are uncertain. The educational program’s lease with its landlord AES ends on Jan. 1, and with little more than three…
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In what promises to be one of the best returns on investment ever for a rebranding effort, the City of El Segundo changed the name of Sepulveda Boulevard to Pacific Coast Highway. The cost for the 14 new highway signs was $15,000. “El Segundo has more Fortune 500 Company headquarters in its five square miles…
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Peninsula Symphony president John Williams describes how they keep the music going
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At five years old, Alex Abad found himself in the seat of a top-down jeep donning aviator goggles, winding south along the Baja coast. He and his dad, Alex Sr., pulled into San Miguel. The time had come for Alex to learn to surf. His father gave him a push, and young Alex stood up…
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