Redondo Beach Yacht Club closes after 62 years
by Garth Meyer “And then there were 10, as they say,” said Bob Trombetta, a member of the Redondo Beach Yacht Club from 1994 to the end, on Monday. The club operated at the northeast corner of King Harbor for the past 31 years. Before that it was in a trailer. It began as the […]
Final Redondo election results: Kaluderovic wins city council seat
Paige Kaluderovic has won the Redondo Beach District Three city council seat over Candace Allen Nafissi 1,411 votes to 1,330. Final results were announced at noon Thursday by City Clerk Eleanor Manzano. In other races, Eugene Solomon prevailed over Matthew Kilroy for city treasurer, 5,351 votes to 4,738; Raymur Flinn was re-elected to the Redondo […]
Business attorney Behrendt to succeed Emdee in District Five
by Garth Meyer An attorney and member of the Redondo Beach planning commission, Scott Behrendt, is soon to represent District Five on the city council. He ran unopposed in the March 7 election to succeed Laura Emdee, who is finishing her second and maximum term. Behrendt and his wife moved to town 20 years ago, […]
Free divers survey Matador wreck
by Garth Meyer Free divers Lance Lee Davis and Johnny Carabajal were training just off of Veterans Park the morning of Feb. 9 when a Harbor Patrol boat pulled up to their inflatable raft. The officer asked if they would dive on the wreck of the Matador. The King Harbor-based, 42-foot commercial fishing vessel had […]
Election report: Kaluderovic ahead of Nafissi in first count
Measures passing; Solomon leads Kilroy by Garth Meyer Paige Kaluderovic led Candace Nafissi 932 votes to 841 Tuesday night in the race for the Redondo Beach District Three city council seat. The cumulative count came from ballots received by the Post Office as of Monday, March 6, and those dropped off at city hall, also […]
Gas stations permitted to sell general grocery items, alcohol
by Garth Meyer Gas/service stations in Redondo Beach will now be allowed to sell full-size general grocery items, including beer and wine, after a 3-2 city council vote Feb. 21. The change updates an ordinance from 1971. The council debated the matter, which applies to the 11 gas/service stations in the city. Councilman Zein Obagi, […]
Tax on marijuana stores goes before voters
The decision was made to permit it, now how much to tax it? After the Redondo Beach city council voted last fall to allow two marijuana stores in town, the question of taxes now goes to voters in the March 7 municipal election. Named Measure CT, if it passes, the city would tax cannabis and […]
Adams Middle School among “Schools to Watch”
Adams Middle School in Redondo Beach has been recognized by the California Schools to Watch program as one of 36 “Schools to Watch” for 2023. An added 41 schools received re-designation this year as Schools to Watch. The list now includes, in total, 186 schools statewide. Criteria includes academics, social equity and “responsiveness to the […]
Kilroy, Solomon vie for city treasurer
by Garth Meyer Two candidates seek the city treasurer position in the March 7 Redondo Beach municipal election. MATTHEW KILROY He goes by Matt or Matthew. “Depends on the situation,” said Mr. Kilroy, who hopes to be the next treasurer for Redondo Beach, the city which he has served as a District Five councilman, and […]
Endless Winter
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Ranked-choice voting up for vote March 7
Redondo Beach voters will decide next week whether to make a change to city election practices. Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot. In this system, people vote for a list of candidates, in order of preference. If a voter’s top choice does not win, and no candidate receives a majority, voters’ second and third choices […]
Opposite Sides of the Tracks
Every five to 15 minutes, a proposed extension of the Metro Green Line would pass within 100 feet of 1,000 North Redondo Beach and Lawndale residents. by Garth Meyer Tanker trains run 66 feet from Chelsea Schreiber’s backyard, and 66 feet from her neighbor on the other side of the tracks. Two trains per […]
Close last time, Chang seeks school board again
by Garth Meyer A man with an architecture degree from Harvard, Jerome Chang was “the IT guy off-screen” during the first two months of the pandemic when his wife taught online, his son went to school online, and he worked online while teaching his preschool daughter to read. In the last school board election, Chang […]
Board chair during pandemic re-entry, Flinn seeks re-election
by Garth Meyer She was the ultimate private school kid. He was the ultimate public school kid. They got married, had children and she called the local private schools about enrollment. Why? He said. Why would we spend the money? She checked out Birney Elementary School and came back and said, “I can’t come up […]
Appreciation spurs Cho’s school board run
by Garth Meyer His first task in America was to take $20, walk to McDonald’s and bring back food for his family. Byung Cho, 17, set out, rehearsing over and over what he was going to say when he got there. He had studied (British) English in school in South Korea. He entered the McDonald’s, […]
Pustilnikov files bankruptcy, stays AES site public auction
by Garth Meyer AES power plant owner Leo Pustilnikov staved off a foreclosure auction of the 51-acre property by filing for bankruptcy Tuesday. The auction was scheduled for Wednesday morning. Pustilnikov’s company, 9300 Wilshire, which submitted the Chapter 11 filing, is a more-than 20 percent owner of the site. AES, which sold the plant and […]