Redondo Beach King Harbor Yacht Club opens 2025 season
King Harbor Yacht Club marked its 76th boating season Sunday, April 6, with traditional “Opening Day” ceremonies. The long-standing practice originated in the northeast, timed for when ice melts off of waterways. The word every year from Redondo Beach, though, is that the only melting ice found is in Yacht Club members’ drinks. Guests at […]
MANHATTAN BEACH PARKING: Rates, permits, citations will be increased, meters replaced
by Mark McDermott During the course of a six-hour meeting that ran til midnight, the Manhattan Beach City Council grappled with several matters, in particular the 432 fees the City charges for everything from block parties to solar permitting. But mainly, they talked about parking, in nearly every way possible. Under consideration were downtown parking […]
$54 million in Redondo school bond funds approved for security, tech work
by Garth Meyer The first Redondo Unified School District Measure S projects have been approved, with up to $54 million set to pay for new security cameras, buzzer systems and fencing, along with buildings’ basic network infrastructure to support classroom learning – in order to go from a room full of kids looking at the […]
Parker Herriott fought beachfront hotel, that is now Noble Park
by Kevin Cody Parker Herriott, a relentless Hermosa Beach activist credited with blocking hotel development on the Hermosa Beach Strand, on the site of the former Biltmore Hotel, passed away last week at 86 from natural causes. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Herriott led the fight against six, City Council-supported, general election ballot measures, […]
About Town Redondo: 2025 sailing races underway, Earth Day, South Bay Film Festival debut
2025 sailboat races begin King Harbor Yacht Club’s annual Thursday night Twilight (sailboat) races season returned to the South Bay April 10. The weekly one-hour races continue through September. Also, last Saturday, April 12, the Trans-Harbor Spinnaker Series began for 2025 with 47 boats racing a 22-mile route between Marina Del Rey and King Harbor. […]