The Hermosa Beach City Council has dropped an effort to establish a new permit system to regulate live entertainment at Hermosa nightspots, but a majority of the council members said they might take up the effort again at a later [...]
A fire protection fee charged for new development might drop dramatically, as it is being recalculated by Hermosa Beach city officials. Fire Chief David Lantzer told the City Council that the “fire flow fee” could drop from $10,000 to $2,300 [...]
Murray Langston, who burst into prominence with a bag over his head as The Unknown Comic on TV’s “Gong Show,” will appear at the LA Comedy Awards’ grand finale Thursday, Feb. 17 at 705, located at 705 Pier Ave. Langston [...]
President chosen Former Hermosa Councilman George Barks has been elected president of the executive board of the United States/Mexico Sister Cities Association. Barks was named executive board president at the association’s 48th annual national conference in Riverside. In addition, the [...]
Eight candidates, including former South Bay Assemblyman Ted Lieu of Torrance and Manhattan Beach attorney Bob Valentine, vie to succeed the late state Sen. Jenny Oropeza in a Feb. 15 free-for-all primary that crosses party lines. At stake is a [...]
Game tester Dale Lynn geeks out (left) with systems support tech Ray Roux and Bill Fisher, who programmed and designed the videogame Space Hawk, as members of a pioneering team of 1980s Mattel videogame designers celebrate their classic games, Intellivision [...]
The year 2010 was marked by continued cooperation from Hermosa Beach nightspots to limit disturbances and other incidents, Police Chief Greg Savelli said. He added, however, that incidents requiring police responses have risen a bit over the past two years. [...]
Property tax revenue, the largest source of revenue for the City of Hermosa Beach, increased 2 percent during the last fiscal year, according to an annual audit by a public accounting firm, but the modesty of the increase marks a [...]