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by Mark McDermott Outgoing Mayor Joe Franklin didn’t have to pass the gavel to incoming Mayor Amy Howorth on Tuesday night, because she brought her own. Howorth waved a small pink gavel in the air shortly after the mayorship officially rotated to her. “One night only,” she said of the pink gavel. “I mean, I […]
Manhattan Beach Council candidate Joe Franklin, Manhattan Beach Council candidate Brenda O’Leary, Manhattan Beach Council candidate Joe Marcy, Manhattan Beach Council candidate Steve Charelian, Manhattan Beach Council candidate Karen Komatinsky, and Manhattan Beach Council candidate Nina Tarnay.
by Mark McDermott Very early most mornings, when The Strand the pier are mostly isolated and the most wakeful population of Manhattan Beach are its surfers and sea birds, you will find a man with a shock of white hair walking alone along the beach, stopping every so often to pick something up, almost like […]
by Mark McDermott Mayor Joe Franklin’s late-starting and very local career in politics has been premised mostly on a single quality. His downright giddy love for his adopted hometown of Manhattan Beach. And so what was surprising about Franklin’s first State of the City address was certainly not its effusiveness but rather its brevity. For […]