How to Enjoy Manhattan Beach With Your College Friends
The Manhattan beach is a dream location that everybody should explore and soak in all its sunshine and pristine sand. The paths are perfect for biking, running, and walking with friends along the beach. The beach also boasts several parks and outdoor recreation spaces, making it the ideal destination for fun with your friends. If […]
Top Activities College Students Can Enjoy at Manhattan Beach
A visit to Manhattan Beach is the best decision you can make as a collegian – you’ll enjoy both the city (Los Angeles) and the beach. You only require about 15 minutes from Los Angeles International Airport to the beach. The destination is filled with exciting and relaxing activities that are perfect for college students. […]
Mr. Hughes’ Secret Gift: A Manhattan Beach teacher makes a promise he knew he couldn’t keep to a promising student
A 7th-grade homeroom teacher at Foster A. Begg Jr. High School makes a promise he knew he couldn’t keep to a promising student. That was the point by Steve Fulton In the fall of 1982 I start 7th grade at Foster A. Begg Jr. High School in Manhattan Beach. My classes are as follows: Homeroom, […]
Starlink rockets light up South Bay skies twice in a week
by Ralph Doyle Manhattan Beach photographer John Post photographed SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets that passed over the South Bay twice in the past week. The first time, on Tuesday, June 18, the sky was clear. The second time, on Sunday evening, June 23. The rocket appeared and disappeared in the clouds. “I watched them lift […]
Letters to the Editor 6-27-24
Bonds away Dear ER: After reading the new city wide bond proposals, I was wondering how the impact of the Redondo Beach Unified School District, Beach Cities Health District, and City of Redondo Fire Department bonds might have on our residents problem with affordable housing (“City moves toward fire stations, public safety bond,” ER June […]
Police Beat: MBPD Chief Johnson warns about ‘bank jugging’
by Liz Mullen Manhattan Beach Police Department Chief Rachel Johnson wants to alert residents to an old scam colloquially known as “bank jugging.”. A thief waits outside a bank, and follows a person who comes out with an envelope full of cash. The thief then steals the envelope when the person leaves it in the […]
Black Scholars Union: Mira Costa students helped Manhattan Beach embrace its first official Juneteenth celebration
by Brianna Smith Manhattan Beach is celebrating Juneteenth officially for the first time with celebrations on June 19 and 22. Juneteenth National Independence Day is a federal holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday falls on June 19, the same day the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation was […]
EDUCATION: Wine Auction celebrates 30 years helping MBUSD schools
by Mark McDermott In 1995, Bill Clinton was in his first term as president, the internet was new, iPhones didn’t yet exist, and Manhattan Beach, along with the rest of Southern California, was still rattled from the previous year’s magnitude 6.7 earthquake. In June of that year, down on Rosecrans Avenue, a fledgling but growing […]
Letters to the Editor 5-16-24
Pool play Dear ER: In Re “Manhattan Council considers two plans for Begg Pool upgrades”, ER 5/11/24: The best news coming from last week’s Manhattan City Council meeting is the Bay Club’s interest in building a pool facility on the City’s parking lot that is adjacent to the Bay Club “Manhattan Council considers two plans […]
All Ball: Shotime, Crime and Punishment in LA, Vogel back in town
by Paul Teetor Only in LA could this rapid sequence of events happen. On Tuesday the Feds announced they had reached a plea bargain with Ippei Mizuhara, the interpreter for Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani who stole $17 million from the $700 million man to pay off his gambling debts. Then on Thursday, just two days […]
Photographer captures proposal, but who was the romantic couple?
by Mark McDermott Pete Halvorsen was in a hurry, walking along The Strand just north of the Manhattan Beach pier when he saw something that made him stop. It was the day of the eclipse, April 8, late in the afternoon. The winds were gusting at 35 miles per hour. A couple was in the […]
Manhattan Council considers two plans for Begg Pool upgrades
by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach City Council received two proposed plans Tuesday night for the redesign of Begg Pool. One would work with the existing structures and bring the aging pool complex up to date, keeping its shallow, 25-yard pool. The other would create a modern, new aquatics center, adding a 35-meter competition style […]
BCHD weighs bond to tear down hospital, create green space
by Garth Meyer The Beach Cities Health District may ask voters to approve a $30 million bond to tear down the old South Bay Hospital in Redondo Beach and replace it with green space and a parking lot, among other modifications to the District’s campus. BCHD representatives will hold three public meetings this month to […]
Chocolatier opens chocolate shop in Hermosa Beach
by Elka Worner When it comes to gourmet chocolates it’s all about the shine and the snap. Chocolatier Ginny Horstman demonstrates with one of her 9-inch-long chocolate surfboards in the store she opened on Hermosa Avenue in April, called Stoked Chocolates. The snap is audible when she breaks the board in two. “It needs to […]
Shooting the moon (and the sun): How Bo Bridges captured totality
by Mark McDermott The April 8 eclipse of the sun by the moon was not on Bo Bridges radar. Bridges was planning to visit his oldest son, who is going to college at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, for the school’s annual dads’ weekend. He was also going to bring his second […]
Museums at the Beach Easy Reader 2024
Hermosa Beach Museum Wednesday – Sunday Noon to 4 p.m. 710 Pier Avenue, Hermosa Beach (310) 318-9421 The Hermosa Beach Museum exhibits are as eclectic as the city’s history, beginning with the Gabrielino Tongva Indians and continuing through to the early and modern days of surfing, volleyball and jazz. Recent shows have commemorated Hermosa’s beatnik […]