‘We are not being heard’
Editor’s note: Dr. Sircar is an infectious disease specialist who spent the last two decades working internationally, including work with the Center for Disease Control fighting Ebola in Africa. She returned to the South Bay to be with family just before the pandemic arrived. She works at three area hospitals and a clinic. […]
10 Unnecessary Things Every Student in Wasting Their Money On
Money management is always an issue when you are a student. There are so many things that seduce you to spend your hard-earned income, and the temptations are so hard to resist. Unfortunately, even small things that you buy occasionally end up in quite huge amounts of money per month. Can you imagine how much […]
All ball sports: Rams, Goff wandering in the playoff wilderness. COVID threatens USC/UCLA game
The only thing consistent about Jared Goff and the Rams is their utterly frustrating inconsistency. And it always seems to come down to one question: can Goff limit his costly mistakes? This time, he couldn’t. And not even Coach Sean McVay, usually so protective of the quarterback he transformed from dud to stud three years […]
BCHD trustee Poster, husband and 93-year-old dad battle COVID-19
Vanessa Poster, who was recently elected to her sixth four-year term on the Beach Cities Health District board, has been meticulous about avoiding COVID-19. Her father David, who is 93, lives with her and her husband Johnny in Redondo Beach. “We’ve been in a bubble,” Poster said over the phone, several days after contracting […]
Trapped in paradise
In the penultimate chapter of Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio,” the newspaper reporter George Willard is preparing to leave the village where he grew up for the big city. He spends the day walking through the county fair, alone amid the crowd and increasingly conscious of the stakes of getting older. He has reached […]
After contentious debate, Hadley becomes mayor of Manhattan Beach
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to name Suzanne Hadley mayor of Manhattan Beach. The vote followed two weeks of intense citywide debate and included voluminous public input for and against Hadley’s ascension to mayor, a position that for the last 42 years has rotated automatically every nine months. Things were far from […]
ELECTION 2020: Franklin officially declared winner of third council seat
Nearly a month after polls closed, Joe Franklin finally won election to the Manhattan Beach City Council, winning the third open seat to join reelected incumbents Steve Napolitano and Richard Montgomery. The lengthy process, which resulted from the unusually large numbers of mail-in votes, created a topsy-turvy end to the council race. Candidate […]
Letters to the Editor 12-3-2020
Great Blue Heron on The Esplanade I go to the Redondo Beach Esplanade most mornings to photograph dolphins. During an early October morning this handsome fellow swooped right in front of me, landed on a building for a minute and took off. I was lucky enough to have my camera ready and capture him as […]
Kiwanis Tree Blessing signals start of Hermosa holiday festivities
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Hermosa gets county ok to reopen TK-2
The Hermosa Beach City School District has received permission to reopen its transitional kindergarten through second grade classes, under a waiver from the Los Angeles County Department of Health, Schools Superintendent Jason Johnson said this week. “We’re shooting for [Dec. 14] the week before the break.,” he said, “But if necessary it will be the […]
Manhattan Beach to allow outdoor patio dining for diners with to-go orders
Diners with take-out orders from downtown Manhattan Beach restaurants will be allowed to sit at the restaurants’ outside tables, under a plan approved by the City Council.