Costa standout Tavai repeats with CIF honor

When the All-CIF football teams are announced each January, it’s not uncommon for players from the top four teams to comprise the majority of selections in each division. Yet Mira Costa, a team eliminated in the opening round of the CIF Southern Section Northern Division playoffs, was acknowledged with four players earning All-CIF accolades. Heading…

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Beach Cities Sports

Hockey Tickets are now on sale for the 3rd Annual Hush up with the Kings scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 8 from 6-10 p.m. at Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach. Kings players, as well as other celebrity guests, will be on hand as the top restaurants in the South Bay sample their food and drink. General…

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“This is LA” surf documentary [VIDEO]

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This is LA – Hermosa Beach filmmaker John DeTemple is filming a surf documentary in the South Bay. “Take trip into the big city. LA has tons of amazing waves with sets ups ranging from long point break walls to heaving top to bottom barrels. This is a teaser for the first full length movie…

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Music: Taking a Hardline, out of necessity

Hermosa Beach resident Ken Seaton has been a man deeply seated behind South Bay’s music scene for decades. Over the years, he’s worked with bands across the board, enduring the fluctuating volatility of the music industry while proactively conjuring ever progressive strategies and methods to assist bands through the treacherous tides.

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Group protests Open Carry pizza dinner

A group of 25 demonstrators protested open carry gun laws last Thursday in front of a pizza restaurant in which roughly 60 holstered patrons ate dinner. Supporters of the Brady Campaign, an organization dedicated to reducing gun violence, showed up during the South Bay Open Carry’s monthly family dinner, held last week at Brooklyn Brick…

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Vitality City to make Manhattan Beach more walkable

Motorists breezed down North Ardmore last Wednesday night while roughly 25 residents crowded onto a nearby sidewalk to hear a walkability expert discuss ways of making the intersection at 15th Street less about cars and more about bikers and pedestrians. They listened wide-eyed and intently as the lively man in the gray walking shoes, khaki…

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Thieves nabbed after Redondo Beach jewelry store heist

A massive seven hour manhunt captured four suspects in a “smash and grab” jewelry heist last Friday in which four masked thieves entered a Redondo Beach jewelry store, broke open display cases with a hammer, assaulted an employee and left in a waiting getaway car. Four men were arrested in South Redondo – one hiding…

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Operation Jack Marathon raises money for autism

Runners Adam Johnson, Jake Courtney, Alison Atkinson, Christian Burke and Dave Bronstein pass the 8 mile mark over the Pacific Avenue pedestrian bridge at Ballona Creek during the Operation Jack Marathon held Dec. 26 in Manhattan Beach. Citizens for Outdoor Recreation and Exercise hosted the race, which was the 61st marathon Orange County resident Sam…

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Teacher removed for ‘egregious’ actions

A fourth grade teacher at Alta Vista Elementary School has been placed on leave after an incident in which she allegedly told students she would harm their families if they did not behave better. Parents say that the teacher, Amanda Steinacher, was involved in at least two troubling incidents – one in which she allegedly…

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Parking, traffic issues dog RUHS

The Redondo Unified School District’s Measure C school bond has been a big success in most respects – construction work has largely come in on time and at or under budget while vastly transforming district facilities, particularly its 106-year old 52-acre high school campus. But a group of neighbors complain that the bond has perhaps…

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Hermosa Beach might ban smoking while dining outdoors

The Hermosa Beach City Council has moved to study a possible ban on smoking in the open-air patios and rooftops of Hermosa restaurants. The decision came after an especially heated discussion on the council dais. Hermosa Council members will meet with restaurateurs and the Beach Cities Health District, with an eye toward developing an ordinance…

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Valley School principal moves on

Hermosa Valley School Principal Tiffany Rudek has resigned to take a job as assistant superintendent of instruction for a larger school district in Whittier. Rudek will begin her new job with the Lowell Joint School District on Feb. 7. She said the opening occurred in the middle of the school year when an administrator in…

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Member of pioneering family was 94

by Scott Kerwin Emma (Kerwin) Halibrand, born at the family home on what is now the Pier Plaza, passed away on Jan. 7 at the age of 94. She was born Sept. 30, 1916, the middle of nine Kerwin children born at the family home. The former Kerwin Bakery building still stands at 35 and…

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