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Swell dreams El Porto is the take off point for inspirational, children’s surf book by El Porto surfers John Pickle and Hunter Jones by Nikki Yunker During COVID, Jonathan Pickle looked without success for books about surfing to read to his 3-year-old son, Wolfe. “It was really hard to find children’s books about surfing. […]
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 […]
Carrie Dietz Brown didn’t have a lot of hope her plan would work. But crazy longshots, along with wild things surviving in unlikely places, are among the revered ideals handed down to her by her father, the late, great Pat Dietz. So she hatched the plan anyway. She hoped to reach Wendell Berry, the poet, […]
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 Paul Teetor Divorce is always toughest on the kids. In this case, the kids are the fans. Lakers fans will no longer have LeBron James – the second greatest player in NBA history, behind only 6-time champion Michael Jordan – to watch and cheer for while their team stumbles through the regular season and […]
by Kevin Cody A bomb threat led Hermosa Beach Police to evacuate businesses along The Strand at about 8:30 Tuesday morning, from the Hermosa pier north to Noble Park, at 14th Street. Gardena police with bomb sniffing K9s concluded a search of the businesses, and beach in front of the businesses just before 10 a.m. […]
Video by Jefferson Graham (PhotoWalksTV.com) Justin Thirsk sings Pennywise anthem ‘Bro Hymn.’Video by Ron Siegel Hermosa Beach Ironman 2026.IONs.com Blake Vogelsang celebrates winning the Hermosa Beach Fourth of July Ironman for the second consecutive year. Photo by Ron Siegel Hermosa Fourth of July Ironman People by Chris Miller [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”52″ gal_title=”Hermosa Beach 2026 Fourth of […]
by Garth Meyer Democrats will regain control of the House of Representatives in November’s mid-term elections, South Bay Congressional Representative Ted Lieu “guaranteed” in an interview last week. Through his “Lieu Review” email newsletter and social media reels, the generally reserved Representative appears to have taken on the role of a Democratic party attack […]
by Chelsea Sektnan At the January 13, 2026, board meeting of the Palos Verdes Homes Association & Art Jury, the board received the results of the 2026 board election. All five incumbents and two challengers were on the ballot. The results were the same as they have been in every election since 2009, with the […]
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 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 Paul Teetor The novelist Thomas Wolfe proclaimed a sad truth 85 years ago in the title of his best-known book, You Can’t go Home Again. Former New Yorker turned Florida man Donald Trump learned that painful lesson the hard way this week when he announced that he was going to attend game three of […]