Restaurants fear dining deck fee increases to force closures
by Kevin Cody Over two dozen restaurant owners and their employees met at the Lighthouse Cafe on Pier Plaza Tuesday afternoon to discuss a new city ordinance regulating outdoor dining. The ordinance is expected to address sizes, locations, and city lease fees for street dining decks, and dining patios on Pier Plaza, and city sidewalks. […]
Letters to the Editor 4-20-23
Garden takes a village Dear ER: Thank you for featuring the Redondo Beach Community Gardens (“Community Garden at Alta Vista,” ER April 6, 2023). This has been a true community effort, with our visionary founders, the South Bay Parkland Conservancy, City of Redondo Beach, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Health District, Churches, the USC Alumni Club, […]
South Bay Boardriders Club
“The South Bay Boardriders Club (SBBC) is dedicated to celebrating the rich history of the South Bay surfing culture, introducing families, youth, and our community to all aspects of ocean activities and to being guardians of our local shoreline.” The South Bay Boardriders Club was founded in 2009 and has grown consistently in membership and […]
Surf awards, surf films, surf music, surf vendors
The Surfer Walk of Fame Weekend begins Friday, April 21 at 6 p.m with a free evening of awards, and films celebrating the South Bay’s rich surfing history. A screening of Chris Miller’s “Legends of Surf”, celebrating Surfer Walk of Fame inductees since the walk’s inception in 2023. The inductees date back to the pioneer […]
Aloha Christensen, McIntire and Garner
Garner was top Golden Era team rider Ronnie Garner (left) on the beach with his crew during the Golden Era of Surfing, in the late ‘60s. Garner was a team rider for the Bay Area Surf Club, and the Rick and Weber surf shops. In 1967, he was ranked 15th in the Surfer Magazine poll. […]
South Bay Boardriders Big Wave Challenge
Winter of ‘23 Redondo Breakwater in perspective Photographer Mike Balzer favors shooting surfers from a distance. For these photos, taken January 6, 2023 he shot the Redondo Beach Breakwater from the Hermosa Beach pier, nearly one mile to the north. The large waves in the foreground (top photo) give perspective to surfer Chris Rodriquez dropping […]
Mickey’s is 70, but sauce sandwich never grows old
2023 SWOF Inductee – Carper is a shaper of surfboards, and surfers
John “JC” Carper grew up in Hermosa Beach, and moved to Hawaii after graduating from Mira Costa High School. Carper will be introduced into the Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame by longtime rival shaper Dennis Jarvis, of Spyder Surf by John “JC” Carper Edited by Kevin Cody My first exposure to surfers was […]
Letters to the Editor 4-13-23
Snared by the law Dear ER: We are disappointed to hear Manhattan Beach has chosen to embrace trapping in its coyote management plan (“Coyote management plan to include trapping,” ER April 6, 2023). We want to advise the community there is no place within the city limits to conduct trapping legally. Regulations prohibit the setting […]
Hermosa Mayor’s Monthly Community Conversation and clean-up
Hermosa Beach Mayor Raymond Jackson introduces Public Works Superintendent John Cordova and thanks his crew for participating in the Mayor’s Monthly Community Conversation and Clean-up, last Saturday at South Park. After listening to a brief talk about the City’s parks, and housing master plans from Jackson and Community Development Director Carrie Tai, the two dozen […]
Hermosa Beach neighbors protest against Five Corners cell tower
by Kevin Cody Over the past three decades, Verizon Wireless engineer William Desmond has found locations for over 18,000 cell towers in 33 states. Among all of those projects, finding a location for a cell tower to address service gaps in north Hermosa has been among the most difficult, he told the Hermosa Beach Planning […]
Letters to the Editor 4-6-23
Changing the future Dear ER: My children’s book, “New Year at the Pier,” winner of the Sydney Taylor Gold Medal for best Jewish picture book of the year, takes place on the Manhattan Beach Pier. It’s about tashlich, a Jewish new year’s ritual in which we admit wrongs and apologize for them. At the pier, […]
Letters to the Editor 3-30-23
Point San Pedro Dear ER: I’m glad the litigation is finally over (“Redondo Council approves $2 million to spurned waterfront developer CenterCal,” ERNews March 24, 2023). I hope Redondo Beach learned a lesson and can move forward productively. Now we’re left with a dilapidated pier and piecemeal fixes. With the World Cup and Olympics coming […]
Word on the Street 3-23-23
The Studio (MDR) The Studio (MDR)’s Lisa Hirsch-Solomon, and Ymi Suga join Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce President David Archer during a ribbon cutting for the company’s fifth location, at 1590 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite J, in Manhattan Beach. Studio (MDR) offers the Lagree Fitness workout, which combines elements of Pilates, cardio training and weight-bearing activities. […]
Papa Joe reaches 100 after raising six kids
Manhattan Beach Police and Firefighters arrived with sirens blaring at the home of Joe Arrigo last Thursday to present him with a City commendation on his 100th birthday. Arrigo raised six children, and countless racing pigeons at the 26th Street home he bought in 1952. The children attended American Martyrs Elementary School and […]
New plaque for new era at Bruce’s Beach
