MANHATTAN BEACH 2021 Year in Review: A city divided over matters of race and social justice
by Mark McDermott The issues of race, social justice, and pandemic policies that roiled the nation came into sharp relief in Manhattan Beach in 2021. The city grappled with a century old racist episode that took on new resonance in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and then faced renewed attention when a […]
Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach: Passings 2021
[Editor’s note: The following stories are excerpted from Easy Reader stories about Beach People who passed away in 2021. For their complete stories, go to EasyReaderNews.com] Kuhlmeyer was a ‘just the facts’ chief Harry Kuhlmeyer joined the Manhattan Beach Police Department, and rose through ranks to become chief in 1980. Three years later, in August […]
Redondo Beach 2021: School’s back, Webb launches, Pier gets love, BeachLife live
From Redondo to the Big Bang During an undisclosed evening in September, workers at Northrop Grumman, in Redondo Beach, loaded the James E. Webb Telescope into a transport trailer, and drove it 17 miles down Pacific Coast Highway to Seal Beach. From there, a cargo ship sailed the telescope to the European Space Agency’s launch […]
A Letter to the Unvaccinated
by Anita Sircar, MD, MPH, DTM&H Editor’s note: Dr. Sircar is an infectious disease specialist who spent the last two decades studying and treating viruses, internationally. She returned to the South Bay to be with family just before the pandemic arrived. She works at three area hospitals. At one point, she worked 155 days straight. […]
ALL BALL Sports: Manhattan Beach Mira Costa champions, LA Title Town to Title-less Town
by Paul Teetor Locally, Mira Costa became the championship capitol of the Beach Cities this year. The boys volleyball team, the boys soccer team, and the girls cross-country squad all won CIF titles, the first for their respective teams in a long, long time. So long, in fact for the girls cross country team, that […]