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Author Archives: Sue Pascoe
Business Block Building Plans Will Be Heard by Design Review Board This Wednesday
Revised exterior remodeling plans for the historic Business Block Building will be reviewed by the Pacific Palisades Design Review Board at 6:30 p.m. this Wednesday, September 23. The updated plan includes a warm cream color for the current “pink” building...
Posted in Community, Real Estate
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Two Pacific Palisades Residents Die in Plane Crash
Pacific Palisades residents Jill Young and Jim deVarennes died on September 11 in a single-engine plane crash, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, deVarennes, 62, was piloting a Ryan Navion B...
Posted in Accidents/Fires
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Palisades Residents Keep Receiving Letters from EDD, Addressed to Various Unknown People
What do Etosha L. Slaughter, John Dufin, Anthony Bryant, Fred Fuchs and Rebecca L. Bearden all have in common? The “same” Pacific Palisades address. None of the people live there or have ever lived at this residential address, but all...
Posted in Community, Crime/Police
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Vote By Mail Boxes Installed in Front of Palisades Library to Aid Residents
An L.A. County Vote By Mail Drop Box has been bolted to the sidewalk in front of the Pacific Palisades Library on Alma Real. Circling the News wrote to Michael Sanchez of the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder‘s office with questions about these boxes for...
Posted in City/Councilman Mike Bonin, Community
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Hey, Pacific Palisades, Here’s Some Parking Meter Revenue Money (Just Kidding!)
In 2018, residents were informed by the City that Pacific Palisades, as part of a pilot program, would receive a portion of the town’s parking meter revenue to spend on various street beautification efforts in the business district. The money supposedly was set...
Brushfire: The Danger Is Real. Pacific Palisades Residents Need to Prepare
As of September 11, an estimated 3,354,000 acres had burned in California, marking the most damaging wildfire season in recorded state history, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl noted in her...
Posted in Accidents/Fires
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The Rise from Abject Poverty to Wealth
Sometimes you read or hear a story and your heart soars. On September 4, a friend alerted me, “Interesting feature in the Wall Street Journal today about the guy who won a $250 million lottery in South Dakota and is now...
Posted in Real Estate
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OBIT: Sherry Coon, an Invaluable Director, Actor and Administrator at Theatre Palisades, Dies at 70
Longtime Theatre Palisades member Sherry Coon, 70, passed away on August 31 at her apartment in Santa Monica. Her sibling Dan Hammond said, “She loved being on the stage.” Sherry was born to Robert DeBruhl and Bess George in Los...
Posted in General
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Promised Parking Meter Money from 2018 and 2019 Is Likely Gone, Thanks to City Budget Cuts
Whatever happened to the parking-meter money Pacific Palisades was supposed to receive via a City pilot program? Councilman Mike Bonin promised in December 2018 that upwards of $50,000 was coming our way for beautification projects in the business district. In a...
Posted in Community, Councilman Mike Bonin
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Palisadian Festa wins Emmy for Documentary
By BERNICE FOX Special to Circling the News We have a winner! A Palisadian has won during the first of several nights of Emmy awards. Jeanne Elfant Festa produced “The Apollo,” the winner for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. When...
Posted in Film/Television
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