Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

  PaliHi Loses to Eagle Rock, 24-21, in City Playoffs Much to Eagle Rock’s dismay, Palisades High was one play away from upsetting them in the first round of the City Section Open Division playoffs. Going into the game, PaliHi...

A Photo of Your Kid with Santa? It Will Be Costly in Caruso’s Palisades Village For as many years as locals can remember, the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce sponsored Holiday Ho!Ho!Ho!, which involved closing off a street in the...

Woolsey Fire Under Investigation The Woolsey Fire, which was first reported in the area of Woolsey Canyon Road near the former Rocketdyne complex south of Simi Valley, may have been started by electrical malfunctions, according to California Public Utilities Commission...

Dolphins Win 7th Straight Water Polo Title Top-seeded Palisades High easily won the CIF City Section boys water water championship last Thursday by defeating second-seed Birmingham, 13-5. This is PaliHi’s seventh consecutive City championship under head coach Adam Blakis. Junior...

Will Mini-Nursery Finally Open This Week? Since early 2014, motorists on Temescal Canyon Road have noticed a lone mailbox across from the Palisades High swimming pool. One Palisadian even dubbed the 810 Temescal address “the Claude Raines invisible house” (the...

Woolsey Fire: Palisades Should Remain on Alert Santa Ana winds are predicted to kick up this afternoon and last through Tuesday. Pacific Palisades residents to heed any new fires that might break out in the Santa Monica Mountains that abut...

PaliHi Site for Woolsey Fire Evacuees The Woolsey Fire, which started November 8 in Simi Valley, jumped the 101 Freeway and reached the Pacific Ocean yesterday, is zero percent contained. The fire has burned more than 70,000 acres as of...

Staples in Caruso’s Parkway Trees Illegal A reader wrote Circling the News on October 28 and asked, “Have you seen all the staples in the trees around the Caruso project? I feel so sorry for the trees.” I walked over...

Woolsey Fire Prompts Residents to Prepare Southbound Temescal Canyon Road was shut at Bowdoin (by Palisades High School). People who live in Tahitian Terrance, Palisades Bowl or Malibu Village, could drive to the bottom of Temescal. After showing proof of...

Woolsey Fire Continues to Prompt Evacuations In order to aid the mandatory evacuations out of Malibu, and parts of Topanga Canyon, the four-lane Pacific Coast Highway has been turned into a one-way road from Malibu to the McClure Tunnel. No...