Articles By: Mark McDermott

Strand sale sets real estate record

Strand sale sets real estate record

See 1600 The Strand photo gallery by photographer Scott Mayoral. The landmark home designed by noted architect Ray Kappe at 1600 The Strand in Manhattan Beach has sold for $10.9 million, which according to the Multiple Listing Service real estate [...]

Vitality City kicks off with Moai walks

Vitality City kicks off with Moai walks

The Beach Cities Vitality City project officially kicks off with a walk next week. But the talk among walkers is what organizers hope will help achieve significant improvements in health and well-being throughout the beach cities. The “Walking Moai ” [...]

Avrick, Emdee take office — Redondo Beach Unified School District Board of Education

Avrick, Emdee take office — Redondo Beach Unified School District Board of Education

The Redondo Beach Unified School District Board of Education added two new members Tuesday night as the newly elected Anita Avrick and Laura Emdee, were sworn into office. The new members’ arrival was in keeping with the campaign that brought [...]

BBR sues city over records requests

The citizen group Building a Better Redondo has filed another lawsuit against the City of Redondo Beach seeking more legal documents and fuller disclosure of the city’s litigation costs in its ongoing legal battle with BBR. BBR Chair Jim Light [...]

International Baccalaureate put on hold

Teachers talked. Administrators and school board members listened. Two weeks after more than 50 high school teachers flooded a Redondo Beach Unified School District Board of Education meeting to protest the potential implementation of the International Baccalaureate program, district leaders [...]

The Vitality Quest

The Vitality Quest

Dan Buettner was only a few years out of college when, in 1987, he launched what would be the first of many quests. Originally, he intended to bicycle from his native Minnesota to the southern tip of South America. But [...]

Songs for Japan

Songs for Japan

Songs will be sung, dances danced, and paintings painted this week in honor and support of Japan. Local musician Ireesh Lal was watching CNN at the very moment the devastating earthquake roiled Japan and the tsunami it subsequently produced obliterated [...]

Knob Hill housing project nixed in Redondo Beach

A controversial affordable housing complex proposed for 320 Knob Hill has been taken off the table. Redondo Beach Unified School District officials announced last week that negotiations with developer Allan Mackenzie, the president of Mar Ventures, have ended unsuccessfully. “He [...]