‘Street Parking Hermosa’ shows town’s wheels keep on turning
by Megan Garringer and Ryan McDonald Meet Anne Williams: supermom of two boys, lawyer, photographer, and Hermosa Beach’s very own Instagram superstar. Her account @street_parking_hermosa documents cars found parked on the streets of Hermosa. And while Instagram and YouTube are filled with car-centric accounts, many of them document the exoctic and the pristine. Williams, however, […]
Center will keep public safety closer to home
Officials from El Camino College and local public safety agencies gathered last week at the college’s Torrance campus to thank Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi for his help earlier this year in securing $10 million in funding for the creation of the South Bay Public Safety Training Center. Like lawyers and doctors, first responders in California are […]
Guilty verdict in 2015 oil spill that brought tar balls to South Bay
Plains All American Pipeline, the company behind the 2015 oil spill in Santa Barbara County that washed down the coast and eventually forced a temporary closure of South Bay Beaches, was found guilty on several counts last week following a four-month jury trial. The company was found guilty of failing to maintain Pipeline 901, whose […]
Shores officially renamed for Patricia Dreizler
The Redondo Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education unanimously approved the renaming of Redondo Shores Continuation School for Redondo Beach matriarch Patricia Dreizler on Tuesday. The name change from Shores to Patricia Allen Dreizler Continuation High School will officially take effect on or before Nov. 30 this year. A native of the Midwest, Dreizler […]
How the chicken man got famous
John Phillips is no celebrity chef, just a guy born and raised in South-Central LA who got into the chicken business after working as a machinist, a baker, and a few other odd jobs. There are no Michelin stars on his food truck, just a sign proclaiming him The Chicken Guy. And he doesn’t serve […]
Public art sent back to drawing board
The City Council last October made some changes to the process for seeking submissions for the city’s sculpture gardens, reducing the number of artists used from six to three, increasing their stipend from $3,000 to $6,000 and the length of the artwork’s loan from one to two years. The intention behind the changes was to […]