Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

LETTER-Waive Permit and Building Fees for Fire Victims

(Editor’s note: Reporters wonder why only four building requests have been approved. This letter sent to CTN, provides an explanation. All Palisades residents need to ask this question of every public official as often as possible. This editor asked that...

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Opting-In, Opting-Out Deadline Extended to April 15

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the Opt-in, Opt-out, Right of Entry deadline to April 15. In a March 28 press release from L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, she wrote “Thank you to FEMA, California Governor’s Office of Emergency...

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City Caught with Pants Down: No Accounting for Homeless Spending

(Editor’s note: This March 28 story  “LAHSA’s 18-Year Record of Audit Failures on Homeless Spending Laid Bare in Federal Court,” first appeared in the Westside Current and is printed with permission.) By JAMIE PAIGE A federal judge sharply criticized the...

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American Legion Hosts a Thank You, Hope and Resiliency Ceremony

The idea was simple, but emotions were high as American Flags were planted around the Village Green, in a brief ceremony on March 20. Jim Cragg, Past Commander of Ronald Reagan Post 283, said, “We’ve been posting flags around the...

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Families and Children Affected by Wildfires Offered Support       

  BRENTWOOD SCHOOL PLAYGROUND OPENED: The playground at Brentwood Science Magnet School will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for select Saturdays and Sundays, starting Saturday, March 29. The Saturday schedule is March 29, April 26,  May 3,...

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Help PaliHi and Its Students by Bidding on Online Auction

The devastating January 7 Palisades Fire damaged the Palisades Charter High School and displaced 3,000 students from across more than 100 Los Angeles zip codes. Now everyone can help the school community by participating in online auction to raise funds....

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Wildfire Survivor Writing Workshop Offered on Three Saturdays

Kathleen Katims, who ran a workshop for the seniors, “Saved by a Story,”  at the Palisades Library for several years  is now offering a free writing workshop series with co-leader Julie Kern Schwerdtfeger for Wildfire Survivors. The program will be...

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Mayor Karen Bass Asks for Nearly $2 Billion from the State

L.A. Karen Bass and Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Councilman Bob Blumenfield, Councilman Adrin Nazarian, and Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky, chair of the budget committee, traveled to Sacramento on March 24 to ask for nearly $2 billion. Prior to the Palisades Fire,...

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“Legally Blonde,” Legally Fun, Opens Friday

The saying “the show must go on” regardless of what happens, takes on a new meaning when Palisades Charter High School Spring musical, Legally Blonde, opens Thursday, March 27. The school’s award-winning cast had been slated to start rehearsing the...

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City Is in a Financial Sinkhole Because of Bad Management; Loses Its Cash Cow

People whose entire property and lives were either destroyed or damaged in the Palisades Fire on January 7 are hoping that there will be some sort of financial relief from the City of Los Angeles. Many are also upside down...

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