Dr. Nicole Wesley named new Redondo Schools Superintendent
by Garth Meyer The Redondo Beach school board opened its Oct. 6 meeting and went into a quick closed session. When they returned, Board President David Witkin announced that Dr. Nicole Wesley will be the next Superintendent of Redondo Beach School District, by a 5-0 vote. Boardmember Rolf Strutzenberg, sitting next to Wesley, turned and […]
State of the City, Town Hall on ballot measures
by Kevin Cody Hermosa Beach Mayor Mike Detoy will deliver his State of the City address on Thursday, October 27 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lifeguard Headquarters parking lot at 1201 The Strand. The outdoor location was chosen, city public information officer Laura Mecoy said, to acknowledge the $2.3 million State grant the city has […]
EDUCATION – Manhattan Beach Unified School District enrollment registers a slight increase
by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach Unified School registered a slight increase in enrollment this school year, reversing a decade of decline exacerbated by an exodus of students during the first two years of the pandemic. A report presented by Assistant Superintendent Dawnalyn Murakawa-Leopard at last Wednesday’s MBUSD Board of Education meeting showed that 5,897 […]
“The Banshees of Inisherin” – Foretold [MOVIES]
“The Banshees of Inisherin,” written and directed by the incomparable Martin McDonagh and bringing back his dynamic duo of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson from “In Bruge,” is elegiac, humorous, and tragic, all at the same time. That the language is poetic and the setting ironically beautiful is to be expected because McDonagh, whether on […]