Redondo Beach’s own Bill Sharman, one of only three men to make the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach and a player, agreed with Jerry West’s assessment of the match-up everyone in LA is talking about, from the mayor and police chief on down.

“It’s going to be really hard for the Lakers, but I think they will win it in six or seven games,” said the 84-year-old Sharman.

In early April, a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber called Aluminum Overcast flew in for a three-day event in which the public could tour the aircraft and, for several hundred dollars, get to take a flight aboard this now classic aircraft.

Ralph and Josephine Montera celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary on April 21, 2010. They married in Pueblo, Colorado at Mt Carmel Cathedral in 1940. Ralph talks about how they met at a political rally at the Pueblo City Hall in 1938. He can still remember what she was wearing and how her hair was set.

Like the resurrected Nixon on the road to China, the once and would be future governor of California Jerry Brown presented himself as a tactical conservative and strategic progressive during an hour-long question and answer session with reporters two weeks ago at the Los Angeles Marriott. Brown was in Los Angeles to address the California Democratic Party Convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Best Kid’s Party, The Gym (tie): AdventurePlex

Parents can sit back and relax while AdventurePlex takes care of their child’s birthday party, from sending out invitations to loading the car with gifts to mailing thank you notes

by Dennis Colonna A major earthquake that strikes the South Bay could be especially damaging to the harbor area of Redondo Beach, where liquefaction could make water-heavy sand behave more like fluid than solid ground, as it did in the Northridge Earthquake of 1994. Frank Chiella, Manhattan Beach fire battalion chief and emergency coordinator for [...]

Legendary baseball coach John Stevenson — who coached in El Segundo for a half century — passed away last week.

David I. Meyer, PhD, is the new president and CEO of one of the South Bay’s biggest employers and one of the nation’s most respected science and medicine research firms.