Chef Sean Chaney teamed up with Walk With Sally to offer a cooking lesson and an early lunch party at Hot’s Kitchen for more than 20 kids affected by cancer. At the “Friendship in the Kitchen” event, the kids toured [...]
Green hero Tireless environmental activist Dency Nelson of Hermosa has won the top prize in a countywide “Earth Month Heroes” contest by KCBS-TV, earning a $1,000 donation to PlugInAmerica, a nonprofit coalition of electric car drivers and advocates of [...]
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, wearing the maroon robes of a “simple Buddhist monk,” mounted a stage and bowed to a large, standing audience, as he has so many times before. Once again, the 76-year-old spiritual leader moved to a chair, [...]
by Jeff Grotenhuis I recently was invited out for a drink with a gentleman I gave a ride to. He told me he was meeting his “girlfriend” at the Salt Creek Grill. When I sat down with Bill Baxter and [...]
Hermosa Beach kindergartners had a long day today, and they’ll have more long days next year. This year’s pilot program at Hermosa View School — which extended kindergarten’s old half-day to about six hours, complete with lunch and recesses – is [...]
Last year, longtime resident Patricia Escalante returned to town, professionally speaking, to become principal of Hermosa Valley School. Now she has climbed the ladder to the school district’s top post. The school board last week unanimously named Escalante superintendent of [...]
Hermosa Beachfirefighter-paramedics Aaron Bush and Jim Bruccoleri were credited with leading roles in saving a life under difficult circumstances, after a 58-year-old Hermosa man suffered a heart attack from a completely blocked artery. Bush and Bruccoleri responded to the man’s [...]
