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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 […]
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 […]
Breakwall repair underway in King Harbor The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started a Redondo Beach breakwall repair Monday on the long rock barrier to the open ocean. It will address about 1,500 feet of the north section, to restore it to its intended elevation of 22 feet above the water. Connolly-Pacific, the Army Corps’ […]
by Garth Meyer Late this spring, homeowners in North Redondo Beach started to receive notices from the city, saying that they are in violation of a code which bans side hedges over six feet and front-setback hedges over 42 inches. The letters were the result of dozens of complaints purported to be from one person. […]
By Richard Foss It sounds odd to say that one of the most distinctive restaurants in the South Bay has become one of the least distinctive – and it’s an improvement. The Ragin Cajun on PCH was a resurrection of a restaurant that opened in 1994 as the Cajun food fad was winding down. […]
by Garth Meyer Redondo Beach has a new city budget, after a back-and-forth, four hour public hearing Tuesday night, with pickleball in Aviation Park making the cut, as well as a week’s free parking at Riviera Village during Christmas. In the end, the budget was balanced at $131 million, with no tapping of reserves, in […]
by Kevin Cody Mira Costa has the Hometown Fair beer garden as a reunion venue every year. Now a group that calls itself We Went to Redondo plans a similar reunion at the Seaside Lagoon for Redondo Union alumni. The first “Redondo Rager,” which orgnizers hope say be an annual event, will be held the […]
by Mark McDermott If all goes according to plan, Jeff Davis will rise sometime before dawn on July 2 and face a notorious giant in the French Pyrenees. The Col du Tourmalet is known in cycling lore as the Géant des Pyrénées, the Giant of the Pyrenees. At 2,115 meters — nearly 7,000 feet — […]
by Kevin Cody Mira Costa has the Hometown Fair beer garden as a reunion venue every year. Now a group that calls itself We Went to Redondo plans a similar reunion at the Seaside Lagoon for Redondo Union alumni. The first “Redondo Rager,” which organizers say will be an annual event, will be held the […]
by Garth Meyer The Redondo Beach city council continued its fiscal 2026-27 budget hearings June 9, each representative naming their priority projects. The full capital improvements list is under a 100 projects for the first time in recent years, as Public Works catches up on a backlog. Jesse Reyes, capital projects program manager, summarized the […]
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 […]