Articles By: Andrea Ruse

Sand Dune: Some say new rules are just right, CORE says ‘too tight’

After more than a decade of battling over the fate of  the sand dune at Sand Dune Park, neighbors say restrictions put into place two months ago have finally made the problems that came with heavy traffic disappear. But Citizens [...]

About Town

About Town

Planned power outage Southern California Edison will conduct a planned power outage from noon Saturday until 2 a.m. Sunday. Affected areas will include the regions bounded by Polliwog Park, Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Marine and Pacific avenues. All-City Computers in [...]

Some say new rules are just right, CORE says ‘too tight’

After more than a decade of battling over the fate of  the sand dune at Sand Dune Park, neighbors say restrictions put into place two months ago have finally made the problems that came with heavy traffic disappear. But Citizens [...]

A view toward work

A view toward work

Photos by Manolo Langis, KAA Design If you haven’t noticed a 13,000 sq. ft., 34-unit office condominium complex at the corner of Thirteenth Street and Highland Avenue in Manhattan Beach, then local architect Grant Kirkpatrick has done his job. Five [...]

Guns cleared for Hometown Fair

Guns cleared for Hometown Fair

Though the guns that will be holstered to dozens of people at this weekend’s Hometown Fair won’t be loaded, the debate over the right to carry them has been. Despite initial warnings from Hometown Fair Board members and the Manhattan [...]

Mira Costa’s Bill Fauver is Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year

Mira Costa’s Bill Fauver is Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year

Mira Costa High School history teacher Bill Fauver was the only educator in the South Bay chosen as a 2010-2011 Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year. Fauver was among 16 educators countywide to receive the honor, which is awarded [...]

Costa campus redesign may reduce baseball program

Costa campus redesign may reduce baseball program

Supporters of Mira Costa High School’s baseball and softball programs are worried that a proposed redesign of the campus’s athletic facilities will have severe and lasting consequences for both programs. The area for ball fields might be shrunk as the [...]

Manhattan Beach City Council says ‘No’ to business license tax for real estate agents

Members of the real estate community cheered and applauded the Manhattan Beach City Council Tuesday night for throwing out a staff proposal that would levy a business license tax on Realtors. Roughly 75 agents and brokers stormed Manhattan Beach City [...]