Monthly Archives: September 2024
What is it #39?
I found this on a crowded shelf at our local Salvation Army store. It looked old and interesting, so I took a chance for $8.50. After doing some research, I learned it’s an antique copper pitcher that was used in...
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Revere School Traffic Needs to Be Fixed
The traffic at drop-off and pic- up times at Paul Revere Middle School needs to be fixed. There is only one road, Allenford, that goes by the school entrance. That street accommodates cars and buses that drop off and pick...
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Pot Shots #26
What are Pot-Shots? Ashleigh Brilliant writes: WHAT EXACTLY IS A “POT-SHOT” OR “BRILLIANT THOUGHT?” Pot-Shots are epigrams, composed according to the following very strict rules. The length must never exceed 17 English words. Note that this is a maximum. Some...
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September 19, 2024, Musings
Musings VP COMING TO TOWN By Sue Pascoe · September 19, 2024 A reader sent this information to Circling the News: Vice President Harris will be arriving at LAX and going to her Brentwood home overnight, arriving after 5:45 p.m....
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Mansion Tax Fallout: LA Sees Sharp Drop in Housing Production
(Editor’s note: This story appeared on September 12, in the Westside Current and is reprinted with permission.) By ANGELA MCGREGOR The November, 2022 passage of ULA (aka, “United to House L.A.” or the “Mansion Tax”) is perhaps the best evidence...
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September 18, 2024, Musings
Musings REUNION REMINDER By Sue Pascoe · September 18, 2024 The first class to attend Palisades High School in September 1961 and go all four years at the school, graduating in June 1964, will hold its 60th class reunion picnic...
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Sept 18, 2024, Musings
Musings REUNION REMINDER By Sue Pascoe · Sept 18, 2024 The first class to attend Palisades High School in September 1961 and go all four years at the school, graduating in June 1964, will hold its 60th class reunion picnic...
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PaliHi Band Marches On
By CHAZ PLAGER With the start of each new school year at Palisades Charter High School, there is also a new Pali Band season. And when we say new, we really mean new. Peter Ye, the program director, is taking...
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Getty Villa Revives Ancient Hero in Outdoor Theater Production
By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor Over the 18 years that the Getty Villa has been presenting Greek and Roman drama, the Trojan War, its triumphant heroes and tragic outcomes have dominated thematically. This is the greatest battle in...
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Brentwood, UCLA Leases on VA Ruled Illegal
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, after a 16-day bench trial, ordered the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on September 6, to build housing for low-income veterans on its West Los Angeles campus. In his 124-page decision that VA land...
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