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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 […]
Breakwall repair underway in King Harbor The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started a Redondo Beach breakwall repair Monday on the long rock barrier to the open ocean. It will address about 1,500 feet of the north section, to restore it to its intended elevation of 22 feet above the water. Connolly-Pacific, the Army Corps’ […]
by Garth Meyer Late this spring, homeowners in North Redondo Beach started to receive notices from the city, saying that they are in violation of a code which bans side hedges over six feet and front-setback hedges over 42 inches. The letters were the result of dozens of complaints purported to be from one person. […]
By Richard Foss It sounds odd to say that one of the most distinctive restaurants in the South Bay has become one of the least distinctive – and it’s an improvement. The Ragin Cajun on PCH was a resurrection of a restaurant that opened in 1994 as the Cajun food fad was winding down. […]
by Garth Meyer Redondo Beach has a new city budget, after a back-and-forth, four hour public hearing Tuesday night, with pickleball in Aviation Park making the cut, as well as a week’s free parking at Riviera Village during Christmas. In the end, the budget was balanced at $131 million, with no tapping of reserves, in […]