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Pleas from Manhattan Beach residents to stop coyotes from killing their pets prompted the City Council to enlist a trapper for help
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by Garth Meyer The question of whether Redondo Beach should contract with the county for fire services is back on after a 3-2 city council vote April 19 to resume a study on the subject – which was halted two years ago. Councilmembers Laura Emdee and Christian Horvath voted against reviving the study. A switch…
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John Teague won or placed in almost every contest he entered by Mike Purpus Shortly after John Teague, and his family moved to Hermosa Beach from Tennessee in 1958, he began surfing on canvas surf mats rented from Juicy James, on the Strand, at 14th Street. Two years later, at age 15, he got his…
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Neighborhood bar Shellback One of the most expensive residential neighborhoods in California has a favorite neighborhood bar that does not fit expectations. Rather than a palace of fancy mixology with a high style interior, locals prefer an unpretentious beachy hangout that looks worn around the edges. That’s probably a mix of nostalgia and habit for…
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Mychal’s Learning Place creates a growing business in Redondo Beach, staffed by the developmentally disabled by Garth Meyer The grand opening was March 3, but they’ve been pushing it for awhile. Mychal’s Print and Embroidery moved to its new location at the corner of Artesia and Felton from Inglewood two months ago. It has been…
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by Mark McDermott Most people present at the January 12 Board of Education meeting in Manhattan Beach knew when Suzanne Hadley approached the podium her remarks were likely to be provocative. Even so, what followed was shocking, even by Hadley’s standards. Hadley was elected to the Manhattan Beach City Council in 2019 in no small…
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by Garth Meyer The men behind the successful retail cannabis signature-gathering initiative fired another salvo in the city on Christmas Eve, with the delivery of 7,000 mailers to North Redondo residents. The subject was city councilman Zein Obagi, Jr. , whose District 4 is in North Redondo Beach The mailer is headlined “Lawyer and councilmember…
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by Mark McDermott The issues of race, social justice, and pandemic policies that roiled the nation came into sharp relief in Manhattan Beach in 2021. The city grappled with a century old racist episode that took on new resonance in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and then faced renewed attention when a…
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by Mark McDermott On the morning of May 22, 2020, Maureen McBride opened up her boutique in downtown Manhattan Beach, Tabula Rasa Essentials, for the first time in ten weeks. Those ten weeks had been rough. McBride had endured many sleepless nights. The world had been turned upside down. The pandemic had launched its ravaging…
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Form and formation David Peters’ first solo show is on view at the Manhattan Beach Art Center by Bondo Wyszpolski In the early spring of 2020, Time4Art’s Homeira Goldstein had an impressive lineup for the Manhattan Beach Art Center, a group show of the StudioEleven artists who’d been working with and learning from Tom Wudl…
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It’s rare an artist’s rendition of a new restaurant inspires outrage, but that is what happened when this publication displayed an image of Esperanza to accompany one of my dining columns in July 2019. The spectacular, curved concrete façade provoked hate mail that declared that something like this would fit in fine in Beverly Hills,…
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Photos by EnduranceSports.com by Mark McDermott After a year in virtual existence, the Manhattan Beach 10k came roaring back to actual life Saturday morning as 3,396 runners filled local streets in the 44th annual running of the race. Stewart Harwell, who won the race in 2017 and 2018, once again finished first with a time…
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by Jake Safane Whoever came up with the phrase “as easy as riding a bike” never pedaled up the hills in the beach cities. But these rides are getting easier thanks to electric bikes (e-bikes) and other forms of micro mobility, such as e-scooters and e-skateboards. These vehicles provide environmentally friendly alternatives to cars, and…
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