Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Road to the Highest Court By LIBBY MOTIKA Contributor to Circling the News RBG, the meme of the moment. Hard to tell whether it’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s biography, her phenomenal rise to the pinnacle of American Jurisprudence...

Turkey Trot for Fun on Thanksgiving The sixth annual Pacific Palisades Turkey Trot will take place at 8 a.m. Thanksgiving morning, November 22. The 5K/10K race starts and ends at the Palisades High School stadium track. Medals and water will...

BID Faced with Legal Challenge The Pacific Palisades Business Improvement District has been hit with legal action from Adrian Riskin, who said the agency failed to follow the Brown Act. In an October 20 letter to the BID, Riskin, an...

‘Fall Prevention’ to Be Discussed Many comics have parodied the commercial of an older adult who is lying on the ground and says, “Help I’ve fallen and can’t get up.” Falls are not a laughing matter. Among seniors, falls are...

Woolsey Evacuees Are Moving Back, Slowly Many Pacific Palisades residents opened their homes to family and friends who had to flee the Woolsey Fire. These evacuees have been anxiously awaiting the okay to return. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department...

My Confusing Newfound Status of Wealth and Affluence By BOB VICKREY Special to Circling the News The recent Los Angeles Times business section story that described our town using words like “exclusive,” “affluent” and “wealthy,” had me wondering if I...

‘The Barker’ Opens with New Dates: See the Play This Weekend “The Barker,” Palisades High School’s play about carnival life and the lives of those who performed, was shut down last weekend (November 8,9, and 10) because of the Woolsey...

No More Trash Pickup for Green, Marquez, Library The Business Improvement District will not pay to pick up trash in the Village Green, Marquez Business District, or the Palisades library, starting January 1. At a meeting held at the Chamber...

Getty Villa Will Remain Closed The Getty Villa, located in Pacific Palisades off PCH, announced in a November 13 story (“Center Safe from Fires; Villa Closed until Further Notice to Support Emergency Response”) that it is temporarily closed. After learning...

Topanga Alpaca Evacuated to Pacific Palisades: Three Tagged Lions and Four Bobcats Unaccounted As of November 14, at 11 a.m., the Woolsey Fire has burned more than 97,600 acres and is about 47 percent contained. One estimate says that 435...