About Town: Manhattan Beach, October 20
Did you grow up in Manhattan Beach in the mid 1900’s? Did you have a favorite late night diner, inspirational teacher or memorable after-school activity?
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Oversized vehicle parking restricted in Manhattan Beach
Elisa Roe nearly crashed her car twice, with her two baby boys in the back seat, since moving to Manhattan Beach earlier this year. The culprits, she said, were oversized parked vehicles that obstructed her vision to see oncoming traffic.
Jacob’s ladder
Jacob Dominguez clutched the chains of his swing as he rocked back and forth on it at the Meadows Elementary School playground in Manhattan Beach last week.
Manhattan Beach council talks tattoos
The City Council decided to explore a discretionary use permit process for the opening of tattoo studios in Manhattan Beach – which would allow the council to look at each application on a case by case basis – at Tuesday’s meeting.
City ups Sand Dune hours
While City Council promised never to allow the “gross overuse” that plagued the Sand Dune Park for more than a decade, it voted Tuesday night to add additional time slots for public access, agreeing that the park could handle an incremental increase in use.
Changing the world, one book at a time
Anne-Marie Franko sat in City Hall recently, dressed in her beige and white Girl Scout uniform, with a patch stitched to her sash that read, “Troop 615.”
Fake quake shakes South Bay
Dozens of bodies – either with gashes in their arms and broken bones, stuck under a fallen object, or laying unconscious – were sprinkled throughout Ronda and Longfellow drives, the neighborhood just west of Mira Costa High School, on Saturday.
TEDx Manhattan Beach, a conference on education
What if every school’s walls were made of chalkboards so the whole campus facilitated interactive learning? Do students really need to attend school during certain hours or can school be available 24 hours a day? How can digital technology facilitate new education models?