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About Town: Hermosa Beach Oct. 13, 2011

About Town: Hermosa Beach Oct. 13, 2011

Campaign forums Leadership Hermosa Beach hosts a forum for candidates for City Council and city treasurer positions 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13 at the council chambers, 1315 Valley Drive. The Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau [...]

Featured Photo: Pack of Dogs

Featured Photo: Pack of Dogs

If you have been to a Hermosa Beach event or have recently taken a photo in the area and would like to submit an image to be featured on easyreadernews.com or in the paper, please email robb[at]easyreader.info

Becker Surf shop emptied for sweeping remodel

Becker Surf shop emptied for sweeping remodel

The Becker Surf store on upper Pier Avenue has been emptied and moved to a building in Manhattan Beach, to clear the way for a sweeping remodel and a more open, airy look. The Manhattan building, on the corner of [...]

Hermosa Beach studies 10 percent budget cut

Hermosa Beach studies 10 percent budget cut

Hermosa Beach City Council on Thursday, Oct. 6 will discuss cutting the city budget by 10 percent, through means such as outsourcing more jobs, offering more early retirement incentives, identifying services that can be cut, and issuing bonds to pay [...]

Muslim outreach in student swap

Muslim outreach in student swap

As Hermosan David Schrader enjoys another year helping foreign exchange students from around the world adjust to their new South Bay environs, he is seeing more faces from Muslim parts of the world. That is by design of the U.S. [...]

Jack Wise: Former Councilman, lifeguard, waterman, builder [OBITUARY]

Jack Wise: Former Councilman, lifeguard, waterman, builder [OBITUARY]

Former Hermosa Beach city officials, including city attorneys Bud Mirassou and Chip Post and former Los Angeles County lifeguards, including John Horn, Chris Gerold, Mike Stevenson and the Garrett brothers Dick and Dave, were among the mourners at a paddle-out [...]

Jack Hoy helmed the home that time forgot

Jack Hoy helmed the home that time forgot

For decades Jack Hoy and his neighbors watched Hermosa go by from low-backed chairs outside the funky 1950s-built apartment building they called home, just blocks from the beach and around the corner from downtown. Nearby, the buildings of a commercial [...]

Hermosa Beach’s Catholic school turns 50

Hermosa Beach’s Catholic school turns 50

When parishioner Daniel L. Villa attended Hermosa’s Catholic school a half century ago, the teachers wore habits. The nuns were warm and caring, and his favorite, Sister Ann Marie, seemed to glide the earth rather than walk. “We always thought [...]