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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 […]
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 Mark McDermott An internationally fraught incident occurred in Manhattan Beach this week when the Iranian soccer team competing in the FIFA World Cup arrived for a brief, yet controversial overnight stay at the westdrift Manhattan Beach hotel. The Iranian men’s national team arrived in Southern California Sunday afternoon and was housed at the […]
by Mark McDermott The 32nd Annual Manhattan Wine Auction on June 6 raised a record $2 million for Manhattan Beach public schools, a 43 percent increase over last year’s event and the largest single-night total in the auction’s history. The dramatic jump was driven in part by the public launch of the Manhattan Beach […]
by Mark McDermott When the Mira Costa baseball team came from behind to beat Agoura 9-7 in the CIF Southern Section Division 3 final on May 30 — winning the program’s first championship since 1953, and only its second ever — the title was also the seventh CIF Southern Section crown Mira Costa High School […]
by Mark McDermott The Northgate Broncos came into the CIF Division I Boys Volleyball Championship game on May 30 with reasonable hopes of winning the title. They had been a dominant team all season, going 37-1 and winning some of the more hallowed tourneys along the way, including the Surf City Invitational, which attracts top […]
Photos by Steve Gaffney (SteveGaffney.com) [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”45″ gal_title=”Queen of the South Bay 2026″] by Kira Ivarsdottir Nearly 200 surfers participated in the third annual Queen of the South Bay, held Saturday, May 30 at 42nd Street in El Porto. But the emphasis wasn’t on competition. “Queen of the South Bay was created to encourage women […]
by Garth Meyer The Beach Cities Health District and Sunrise Senior Living are on their way to redeveloping the 11-acre hilltop BCHD campus in Redondo Beach. The choice of Sunrise by the BCHD board at their May 27 meeting means that approximately 100 Silverado Memory Care tenants living in the former South Bay Hospital building […]
by Nikki Yunker Birds, butterflies and bumble bees joined local leaders and community members in recognizing the 25th anniversary of Manhattan Beach’s only public garden with a green ribbon cutting Friday, April 24. The nonprofit Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden, a hidden oasis at the southwest corner of Polliwog Park, first opened in April 2001 with […]
Mb mayors Incoming Mayor Joe Franklin and outgoing Mayor David Lesser. Photo by Jefferson Graham IF ROOM: Mb franklins Mayor Joe Franklin’s daughter, Taylor, and son, Jimmy, celebrate the beginning of his mayoral term. Photo by Jefferson Graham CITY COUNCIL Lesser passes gavel to Franklin in mayoral rotation by Mark McDermott Former councilperson and six-time […]
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”40″ gal_title=”Mira Costa Baseball CIF Champions 2026″] Senior Nick Feidler leads Mustangs’ comeback from a 1-6 deficit with a home run, triple and two RBIs by Dan Smith The Mira Costa Mustangs used big innings to come from behind in three of their four playoff games, leading up to the CIF-Southern Section Division 3 […]