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With three locations in the Beach Cities, Ralph’s continues to provide shoppers with a wide selection of products, fresh produce and friendly employees. The Redondo Beach location, south of the South Bay Galleria, is one of the larger Ralph’s and includes bakery, deli and meat/seafood departments in addition to a Starbucks, Union Bank, cleaners and…
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The risks to conglomerates who acquire popular, family-owned businesses was dramatically illustrated in 2016 with the sales of Redondo Beach-based Body Glove and Manhattan Beach-based Shorewood Realtors. New high end hotels and grocery markets reflected the beach cities growing wealth.
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The Ninth Annual Fall Fashion Show fundraiser and luncheon took off at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Torrance
Read MoreIn talking about her style of governance, U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn can sound as though she is planning an ambitious dinner party. Hahn is running to fill a rare vacancy on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and says she is leaving Congress in part because of its partisan gridlock. A return to local…
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Spotlight on the hill – Fourth Annual Jester & Pharley Tennis Tournament Benefiting Children With Cancer The rousing round-robin event at Alta Vista Park in Redondo Beach raised funds to provide copies of David Saltzman’s award-winning children’s book The Jester Has Lost His Jingle and Jester & Pharley Dolls to young cancer patients at Harbor-UCLA…
Read MoreSouth Bay Farmers markets Farmers markets featuring farm fresh fruit and vegetables and a wide range of hot meals can be found somewhere in the South Bay every day, except Mondays. Redondo Farmers Market: Sunday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Triangle parking lot on S. Elena Avenue. Manhattan Beach Farmers Market: Tuesdays, 11…
Read MoreMike Watt keeps sailing around the country, but always finds himself returning to the South Bay It took a postcard for Mike Watt’s dad to finally understood punk rock. It was the early ‘80s, and the bassist was on tour with Minutemen, the seminal San Pedro group he co-founded with singer/guitarist D. Boon. Along with…
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Over 3,000 readers showed their support for their favorite beach retailers and services by voting in Easy Readers 30th Annual Best of The Beach contest. Though any “Best of” vote is more subjective than scientific, Best Of voting gives readers an opportunity to show their appreciation for the many businesses and services that make the beach cities such a wonderful place to live.
Read MoreAfter a nearly ten-year absence, a grocery store may finally be returning to one of Hermosa Beach’s busiest intersections. Lazy Acres, a natural foods market with existing locations in Long Beach and Santa Barbara, has tentatively agreed to fill a space owned by the Hope Chapel at the intersection of Artesia Boulevard and Pacific Coast…
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His name was Joel Davenport. A familiar face at the Redondo Village shopping center, at the corner of Beryl Street and Prospect Avenue, he was known to everyone from the cashiers at Vons, to the owner of the dog grooming shop, to the regulars at the coffee shop. “Then he just disappeared one day, for…
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Thanks for the memories, Manhattan Dear ER: I am sad to say the “small town feeling” in Manhattan Beach has long gone. It’s much too late to think about bringing it back. It should have been addressed 10 or 12 years ago. Here is what we have now: lots of wine flowing, expensive restaurants, huge…
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Not making it Dear ER: My take away from Keith Robinson’s political cartoon (“Making it,” August 6, 2015) is that if you own a gun, you are an A-hole. Did Keith Robinson really call 32 percent of South Bay residents A-holes? Additionally, what does the National Rifle Association have to do with Bill Cosby? Would…
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Higher Dear ER: Why stop at 12 percent (“Hermosa Beach activists circulate hotel bed tax pedition,”)? Since no one makes a decision on where to stay based on the bed tax, take it up to 100 percent and then see if people do base their decision on it. Tax, tax, tax, tax. When will it…
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Redondo hotel reopens, Copy Shop moves, Yorktown’s New York roots
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