Redondo demands nearly half a million dollars after Hermosa Beach backs out of water project
Hermosa Beach is facing demands from neighboring Redondo Beach to turn over more than $400,000 related to a multi-city ocean water quality project, potentially imperiling cooperation on a critical environmental issue. In a letter sent last Wednesday to Hermosa Mayor Stacey Armato, Redondo Mayor Bill Brand demanded that Hermosa return $431,615.05 Redondo contributed to […]
Hermosa Beach Lineup for Hermosa Summer Concerts announced
By Ryan McDonald Hermosa Beach will host two weekends of free summer concerts on the beach this August, with an eclectic and modern collection of acts playing on stage in the sand the last two weekends of the month. This year’s offerings will be closer to a festival-style experience than in the past, with acts […]
Redondo Beach Residents eye Healthy Living Campus plans
There were a few common themes shared by residents attending Beach Cities Health District’s first scoping meeting for its planned Healthy Living Campus redevelopment, held at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on Monday night. The meeting was the first step toward satisfying California Environmental Quality Act obligations, in which BCHD collected comments that would […]
Vigil brings immigration issues home
Elvis Martinez traveled an unfathomable distance to stand, a little scared but plenty strong, before a crowd of a few hundred people on the Manhattan Beach pier last Friday night. Two years ago, Martinez walked roughly 1,400 miles from his home in the gang-infested city of San Salvador, El Salvador, to Brownsville, Texas. He […]
Redondo Beach Benches make space for friends
by Sarah Plenge The slogan of Torrance’s Joseph Arnold Elementary School is “if you can be anything, be a friend,” something that Buddy Benches embody entirely. Buddy Benches are meant to serve as an emotional space for children on school playgrounds. The idea is that when a child is feeling sad, left out, or […]