About Town Redondo: Next home design rules hearing, city logo input
Second public hearing on home design rules Aug. 15 The Redondo Beach city council will hold its second public hearing Aug. 15 on its proposal to turn city home-building guidelines into rules. The long-gestating item was brought to the council two weeks ago after study and recommendations by the planning commission. The effort aims to […]
50th Anniversary SB2KH race draws lots of boats, not much wind
by Garth Meyer The 50th Annual Santa Barbara to King Harbor sailboat race drew 84 sailboats for the 80 nautical mile race last weekend. The boats departed from the Santa Barbara Yacht Club at noon on Friday, July 28, in 8 knot wind, after which the wind retreated with the sun. It was one of […]
Redondo diver sets goal on 60 meters at Worlds free diving championships
by Garth Meyer In May, Christina Sours, of Redondo Beach, took first place overall for women at the Azul Freediving Challenge at Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. Last year, she won the 2022 Redondo Beach Vertical Green competition. On Saturday, Sours leaves for The World Conference of Underwater Activities Freediving Championships, starting Aug. 19 in Routan, […]
Obagi asks residents to show him houses ‘that shouldn’t be built’
by Garth Meyer City Councilman Zein Obagi, Jr., has invited residents to submit pictures to him of new homes in their neighborhoods that are examples of “something that shouldn’t be built, and tell (me) what you don’t like.” Obagi’s e-mail address is: zein.obagi@redondo.org. Obagi, and councilmembers Scott Behrendt and Paige Kaluderovic voted July 18 to […]
School board explores bond measure
by Garth Meyer The Redondo Unified School Board held a workshop July 18 to discuss the potential to put a bond measure before voters, to fund enhanced security, update facilities and shore up technology for students. On Tuesday night, at the board’s regular meeting, it voted to hire Isom Advisors (Tustin, Calif.) for $50,000 to […]
List “gutted”: Redondo Beach moves to turn home design guidelines into rules
by Garth Meyer Whether to allow a mezzanine – where and how big – is one of a list of questions facing the Redondo Beach City Council as it looks to update residential design guidelines from 2003 to make them into rules. The council took input from the public July 18, including a group of […]
Torrance opts out: work begins on BCHD bike path
by Garth Meyer Conversion of a 10-foot-wide, 450-foot stretch of alley connecting Diamond Street and Flagler Lane into a bike path has created controversy due to its cost, and that the City of Torrance declined to participate in the project. The bike path improvement, which will stop at the Redondo/Torrance border, is to be paid […]
Hjorth wins 31st Collier Cup
by Garth Meyer The 31st annual Tom Collier Cure Cancer Cup drew 36 sailboats in a pursuit at King Harbor July 15. Racing on two 10-mile courses at the same time, divided by different start times, the slowest-class boats went first, and the fastest last. The first to the finish line was the winner. Overall […]
Ocean education building design revealed
by Garth Meyer A “shack” on the Redondo Beach waterfront may be replaced by a $50 million, 29,000 square foot landmark for waterfront education. Architects unveiled a design Tuesday night to the city council, slated to be built at the current site of “Joe’s Crab Shack.” Since the spot requires keeping its 100 parking spaces, […]
About Town Redondo: Cold case help, city council 5-minute rule
Police seek help in cold-case murder investigation The Redondo Beach Police Department seeks the public’s help to solve a murder case that went cold for more than forty years, before two retired RBPD detectives identified the victim. Police Chief Joe Hoffman held a press conference June 26. Former RBPD Captain John Skipper and Sergeant Rick […]
Walkability Zoning: Change coming to Aviation-Artesia Blvd. strip
by Garth Meyer The Aviation and Artesia boulevards corridor got a boost from the city council Tuesday night in a 5-0 vote to amend zoning codes, in the hopes to spur a more walkable strip. The “cut-through area” from near Pacific Coast Highway to the former South Bay Galleria has 15 percent vacancy now, with […]
Webb Telescope – One Year In
—————– (July 19, 2023: this article has been updated. Corrections made – the star-forming region shown by the July 12 Webb image is 390 light years away, not 390 million. In another image, mentioned by Michael McWhinnie, a cloud “being blasted into space” was near a moon by Saturn, not Jupiter). —————- by Garth […]
Redondo: Fourth of July 5k detour
Somewhere in the South Bay, an Anheuser-Busch delivery has not yet arrived. The 30th annual Village Runner Fourth of July 5K in mid-stride Tuesday morning. Photo by Garth Meyer
Redondo’s “Mr. Hot Wheels” to be inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame
by Garth Meyer One day in 1956, the football coach at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., confiscated a “Hot Rod” magazine from a player who wasn’t paying attention. He went home and threw it on the kitchen counter. His 14-year-old son picked it up. The boy had never before seen the publication. He would not […]
Redondo High assistant swim coach fired after reporting alleged misconduct. Swimmers told they will be banned from sports if they protest [Update]
(See July 13 retraction at bottom) by Kevin Cody and Garth Meyer Half an hour before the Redondo Union High School swim team banquet at South End Racquet and Health Club on May 31, team members received an email from girls water polo coach Shelby Haroldson. “MANDATORY! MUST READ ASAP!!” read the subject line. […]
Wilderness Park hosts Amateur Radio Club Field Day
The annual Amateur Radio Field Day was held last weekend, June 23-24 at Wilderness Park in Redondo Beach. Members of the Hughes Amateur Radio Club, based in El Segundo, and sister clubs set up temporary HAM radios in the parkland to communicate across the country, in practice for a large-scale disaster. HAM radio equipment will […]