Kevin Cody

by Emery Min  Over 100 runners competed in the 9th Annual Manhattan Mile, held in conjunction with the 63rd annual Chevron Manhattan Grand Prix cycling races on Sunday, July 12, at Live Oak Park.  Elite runners were joined by runners as young as seven, many paced by their parents.  “Runners are pretty happy go lucky […]

The Hermosa Beach Little League community gathered Sunday afternoon, July 12,  on the beach at Eighth Street  to celebrate the life and mourn the loss of Josh Sall, who passed away July 3, at age 53.  Little League president Evan Smith described Sall as a legend inspiring, bigger than life coach and community volunteer. “He […]

Easy Reader 56th Anniversary Writing, Photography, Video and Cartoon Contest Guidelines Presented by Paul’s Photo Best story: $300 Best photograph: Camera Best video: $150 Best cartoon: $100 Submission Deadline: Friday, Thursday, August 6, 2026 Publication date: Thursday, August 13, 2017 Submission requirements: Writings, photographs and cartoons must be submitted by email or on disk or flash drive. Videos […]

by Romia Lisboa It’s an exciting change of pace to sit in a park on a weekday evening, listening to the chants of witches while watching actors in medieval costumes. The longer we sit, the more the experience enchants us.  Last Wednesday, July 8, in Hermosa Beach’s Valley Park we were immersed in the land […]

by Matt Olin Spencer Hill enlisted a few friends to start the Tuesday Run Club in 2021. Since then, TRC has grown to about four dozen runners, all motivated to support one another, and to start Tuesday mornings with a run through town.  The runs start at Valley Park at 6 a.m. sharp so parents […]

by Kevin Cody I’ve published Easy Reader for over 50 years. It’s fun. A reporter friend described reporting as “play with purpose.” I bike to the end of the Hermosa pier and photograph people fishing. I talk to people along the way, and then write about whether to save the pier, or let it crumble […]

by Chelsea Sektnan Soccer coach Billy Hansen’s path to founding SIFA (Soccer Is For All) grew out of a lifelong passion for the game and what he saw while coaching club soccer in the South Bay. Hansen, a retired professional soccer player, said the roots of SIFA began after he started coaching his daughter’s club […]

by Baran Taghvaei My parents and I went to the Sunday, June 21 World Cup group-stage match at Los Angeles Stadium between Iran and Belgium.  Yet for me, a 16-year-old Iranian immigrant, what was happening off the field was just as culturally significant as what was happening on the field Many Iranians arrived wearing the […]

by Rick Dickert I first learned about the warming of the waters off of Peru, and its impact on the South Bay in 1983, during my freshman year at Redondo Union High School. Because my friends and I surfed, I was already deeply entrenched in the world of weather. I tracked it with my backyard […]

by Mike Hoye Launch Segundo, a new marketing platform designed to attract and retain businesses in El Segundo, has been released by the El Segundo Economic Development Corporation. The program will be supported by a micro-site, social media, digital marketing, events, and other tools to spotlight key milestones of the companies already located in the […]

 The ¡Kooks! #1 exhibit at Gallery of Hermosa in November featured work by a dozen legendary Southern California surf inspired artists, among them former surfing magazine photographer Mike Balzer, Dogtown and Z-Boys film maker Stacy Peralta,and surfboard shaper Dennis Jarvis. Many of those same artists, and some notable additions, including Dogtown skater turned artist, writer, […]

by Kevin Cody  No one knows why a mother duck and her seven ducklings decided to cross Valley Drive, from the Greenbelt to South Park. But had Hermosa Beach resident Paul Greygreg and his dog, Montana, not been walking in the park last month and seen traffic honking at the ducks, it’s likely the ducks […]