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by Garth Meyer Redondo Beach firefighters are in action against the California wildfires. A crew of four and an engine returned Monday from working the Nixon fire in Riverside County. Also in the past month, a four-man RBFD crew plus a battalion chief helped with two fires in Northern California – the Shelley fire and […]
by Garth Meyer A group including Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand and City Councilman Nils Nehrenheim picked up a legal win Jan. 22 when an L.A. Superior Court judge ruled they do not have to pay $164,000 in attorneys’ fees to plaintiffs who brought a losing case against them, about the fight against the defunct […]
by Garth Meyer “Very nice city, used to be, 2005, it was village, it grow into city. Bucha. It’s a very nice place to live. Was.” Lesia is her name. She came to America Nov. 11 – to Redondo Beach – with her husband, young daughter and the family dog, byway of a program called […]
by Garth Meyer The release date arrived October 21st. I’d been listening to rock radio in the car to see if I might hear the single. No luck. I was about to buy an album on the day it came out for the first time since as far back as I could remember. I believe […]
by Garth Meyer A state-required Redondo Beach housing plan took effect in time to stop a proposal by AES site owners to develop the property by “Builder’s Remedy,” L.A. County Superior Court ruled last week. Judge Ronald Frank found in favor of the City of Redondo Beach, over AES co-owner Leo Pustilnikov, who contended in […]
by Garth Meyer On back-to-back days, Monday and Tuesday at Redondo Union High School, students were arrested for taking a loaded handgun to school. The campus was closed Wednesday for a K-9 sweep for weapons and explosives and a review of law enforcement protocol. District administrators and police announced plans for new security measures when […]
by Garth Meyer RUHS won the Bay League this fall in the inaugural season of CIF girls flag football. The program began as a club sport in 2021, one of 10 teams in Southern California, which grew to 16 the second year. In 2023, RUHS, Mira Costa, Palos Verdes and Peninsula fielded CIF-sanctioned teams. Redondo […]
by Garth Meyer If you flew out of LAX in late 2021 on Delta Airlines, chances are your plane burned fuel that was half petroleum-based and half soybean oil. It came from Chevron’s El Segundo refinery. Since then, Chevron El Segundo has expanded its biofuel production. It now supplies 100% renewable soybean oil truck diesel, […]
Two city employees die City hall lost two workers in the same weekend Oct. 28-29 as longtime I.T. manager Jesse Martinez died unexpectedly and Laurie Koike died of cancer. Redondo Beach had not lost an active city worker in more than 10 years. Martinez spent his entire career as an information systems specialist with the […]
By Garth Meyer The annual Redondo Beach Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11 featured a six-year Vietnam POW as keynote speaker. Col. Kenneth Hughey, 91, walked to the podium and told of his four favorite veterans – four men from his hometown of Chic, Tennessee, one of which was his brother: Jack Hughey, Hollis Reager, John […]
by Garth Meyer Carlos Rubio, regional president for Teamsters Local 911, led a crowd of Redondo Beach city workers Tuesday night, Nov. 7, picketing along Pacific Coast Highway and at city hall. Later, in the city council meeting, representatives reported progress in contract talks. Redondo Beach Professional and Supervisory Association president Lina Carillo, addressing the […]