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Community will gather to raise cash for MB schools

In order to save teachers and educational programs next school year, the Manhattan Beach Education Foundation will hold its first community-wide Rally for Education next Thursday to raise money during its second annual Pledge Week. The organization hopes to raise [...]

About Town

About Town

Utility workers scam, World Famous Pumpkin Car Race, Pier-to-Pier Friendship Walk, DUI checkpoint.

New social network game hits Hermosa, Manhattan

New social network game hits Hermosa, Manhattan

If a diner at Sharkeez stacks his chips into a tower and takes a picture of it, he might be angling for a free order of chips and queso. Then, if he strolls over to Fat Face Fenner’s Fishack and [...]

City, lawyer tilt over barking dogs

In a courtroom battle capping years of neighbors’ loud-dog complaints, a judge has ruled the city acted properly when it cited resident Corey Glave for having four adult dogs – twice the number permitted in Hermosa. Glave is an attorney [...]

Student sets sights on Mars

Student sets sights on Mars

Ground control to Vito Iaia, Ground Control to Vito Iaia: report to Johnson Space Center. Iaia, a 22-year-old Hermosan majoring in physics at El Camino College, has responded to NASA’s call and flown to Houston along with 89 other U.S. [...]

Measure G supporters win a street corner

Measure G supporters win a street corner

Nobody has won the war, but supporters of Measure G won the battle of the Pacific Coast Highway and Catalina Avenue intersection on Friday afternoon. What supporters described as an impromptu counter-protest brought roughly 30 pro-G activists to the street [...]

Manhattan Beach agrees to become Vitality City

The Manhattan Beach City Council unanimously approved the city’s participation in the Vitality City initiative, a cutting-edge, three-year program aimed at measurably improving the health of beach city residents. Manhattan Beach, along with Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach, will be [...]

Man robs downtown bank

Man robs downtown bank

Police and the FBI are jointly investigating a bank robbery that occurred Monday morning at a downtown Manhattan Beach bank by a lone man who made off on foot with cash, authorities said. At 8:50 a.m. the suspect allegedly walked [...]