Monthly Archives: June 2024
Kids Out of Control on Palisades Streets
Circling the News has received photos and videos of high school students fighting. The photo above is of three girls fighting in front of Gelson’s on Via de la Paz on Wednesday. A security officer broker it up. The...
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Homelessness and the Failure of Mainstream Media
(Editor’s note: This article first appeared in CityWatch on May 23 and is reprinted with permission.) By TIM CAMPBELL The Constitution’s framers included a free press in the First Amendment for a reason. Newspapers played a critical role in the...
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“Happy Days” For Parade Theme Winner
By LAURA ABRUSCATO A family project to come up with themes for the Palisades Fourth of July Parade has paid off for longtime Palisadians Dean Grinsfelder and Vicky Collison. Dean’s winning theme for the 2024 parade is “Happy Days in...
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Neal and Johnson’s Murderer Convicted of First-Degree
(Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Westside Current on June 5 and is reprinted with permission.) After a full day of deliberations, a 15-member jury reached a unanimous verdict on Wednesday, June 5, convicting Abelardo Bon of first-degree...
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What Is It! #28
This handmade hardwood, heavy container with flat bottom was made in England, where I bought it. Or possibly made in India where the wood came from. I’ve owned it for a couple of years, and it’s on our dinette table...
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Pot Shots #16
(Editor’s note: A reader, who is a fan of Ashleigh Brilliant (creator of Pot-Shots), has worked out an agreement with CTN that gives this newsletter the permission to use copyrighted Pot-Shots. Potshots remain the property of Ashleigh Brilliant. To...
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June 6, 2024, Musings
Musings WHOOPS! By Sue Pascoe · June 6, 2024 Yesterday CTN alerted readers to the fifth annual vegan fest, and wrote: From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. come try delicious vegan food at the Palisades Village Green, sponsored by Resilient...
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Theatre Palisades’ “Musical Comedy Murders” Delightful Evening
By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor All the elements are present: Ten strangers invited to spend the weekend at a wealthy dowager’s country estate rumored to have secret tunnels throughout; a raging storm outside, and an air of...
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The Annual Youth Writing Contest Underway
Annually, since the early 1990s the Friends of the Palisades Library have held a summer writing contest for youth. Now that schools are coming to a close, this might be a perfect summer project. All entries, which can be...
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Howling Heroes Winners Announced
The Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation in 2021 launched a Howling Heroes contest to find an official K-9 Mascot. The contest annually is held in the spring and in April the top three canines for 2024 were announced: Blue Nystrom,...
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