Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

VIEWPOINT- Fix the Roads – Gas Taxes??

USA Facts, a nonprofit civic initiative that looks at government data looked at roads in the U.S. The states with the worst roads were Rhode Island, New Jersey, Hawaii, New Mexico and rounding out the top five was California. The...

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What Is It? # 11

This is a really old, bronze, handheld Chinese mirror. This is the decorated backside. The two wetland birds are either cranes or herons. They have different symbolic meanings. The front is highly polished and produces a reasonable reflection. I don’t...

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Dry Cleaners Robbed on Via De la Paz

  If you recognize the suspect in this photo taken at 1:30 a.m. in Regal Cleaners, at 881 Via de la Paz, please alert Palisades Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin (310) 444-0737. The criminal gained entrance early Tuesday morning, January...

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Castellammare Lacks Adequate Drainage/Roads for Major Developments

“What’s going on here is astonishing,” a resident said as he gave this editor a tour of the proposed Tramonto four house development off Revello on the Castellammare section of Pacific Palisades. “The big problem is the roadway.” Repeatedly residents...

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Palisades Recreation Center Dedication and Board Meeting

Prior to the quarterly meeting of the Palisades Park Advisory Board (PAB) on Thursday, January 18, a special dedication will be held at 6 p.m. The Rec Center and Board will present a plaque to the Toppel Family for its...

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Stopping Fireworks Will Take More than Enforcement

By CHAZ PLAGER Let’s be frank— teenagers do stupid things. It’s a fact of life. Usually these things are relatively harmless, like asking out the cashier at Taco Bell, trying to finish an essay four hours before the deadline, or...

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Palisades Dog Park Moves a Step Closer

At the Pacific Palisades Community Council virtual meeting on January 11, Councilmember’s Field Deputy Michael Amster announced that the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners would hear a request to approve an authorization to write a grant to use Measure...

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OBITUARY – Louis Del Pozzo, Teacher, Long-time Resident

Louis (Lou) Michael Del Pozzo, a 45-year resident of Pacific Palisades, died in his home on January 9. He was 93. He was born on July 11, 1930, in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, to Lucy DeStefano Del Pozzo and Luigi Del Pozzo...

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Ernest Marquez, A Palisades Treasure, Passes

In his book “Rancho Boca de Santa Monica: The 1839 California Mexican Land Grant, A History,” published in 2021, Ernest Marquez wrote about the family cemetery. “Descendants from all walks of life come here for many reasons. They have a...

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Yale Whiffenpoofs Will Perform at St. Matthew’s

The Yale Whiffenpoofs will perform at St. Matthew’s Music Guild at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, January 19. Founded in 1909, the “Whiffs” began as a senior quartet that met for weekly concerts at Mory’s Temple Bar, the famous Yale tavern....

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