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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. […]
by Diana MacDougall Two years ago, a then-85-year-old Mary Lou Simms walked up the stairs to the upper deck of the King Harbor Yacht Club and saw a framed collection of portraits honoring the Win’ard Yacht Club Commodores, from 1949 to 1960. The club was founded in 1949, and merged with the Redondo […]
by Nikki Yunker The South Bay has over 200,000 families. It needs a kids’ museum, Redondo Beach mom Christina Domer concluded during the pandemic. During that period she and her young son, who is now seven, visited the New Children’s Museum in San Diego. “We walked in the door and I was just like, ‘Oh […]
Video by Jefferson Graham (PhotoWalksTV.com) Justin Thirsk sings Pennywise anthem ‘Bro Hymn.’Video by Ron Siegel J 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 July Ironman People […]
by Laura Garber The curtain almost didn’t go up for the 29th season of Shakespeare by the Sea. The nonprofit organization, founded in 1998, faces rising costs and a difficult funding landscape. “We thought for the first time in 29 years, we won’t be out there,” said Stephanie Coltrin, the company’s co-artistic director. To continue […]
by Laura Garber Hermosa Beach Lawn Bowling Club has been ranked among the nation’s top 10 lawn bowling clubs for membership growth in the last five years by US Bowls, the national lawn bowling organization. The club, started by former Hermosa Beach Mayor John Clark in 1936, celebrated their 90th anniversary in April. The club […]
by Laura Garber Two South Bay high school students, both named Leilani, took home $1,000 scholarships on Wednesday, June 3, at the Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library’s annual scholarship ceremony for their essays on local history and beach culture. Mira Costa High senior Leilani Song, who heads to Duke University in the fall to […]
by Garth Meyer Top leaders of Continental Development Corp. and Mar Ventures, Inc., sent a letter to the Redondo Beach city council June 25, offering a rejoinder to the May vote by the Beach Cities Health District that chose another proposal to redevelop its campus. Continental Development/Mar Ventures was the original choice by the […]
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 […]
Books to lead young minds astray! “Reading Lolita in Tehran” – July 1 at the Gardena Cinema by Bondo Wyszpolski It’s an evocative title, isn’t it? A couple of days ago Randy Berler’s South Bay Film Society enjoyed watching this film, directed by Eran Riklis, and based on the memoir (published in 2003) by Azar […]
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 […]
A common adage in the making of public agency budgets is that each adopted budget is only a snapshot in time, given the complexity and fluidity of the revenue sources. But for public schools in California, that snapshot is a blurry polaroid at best, more commonly a botched and largely illegible overexposure. School districts must […]