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Osmose Inspectors May Ask to Check Power Poles in Residential Yards

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has hired an outside contractor Osmose to examine the condition of power poles in Pacific Palisades and Brentwood. The company will start Monday, August 28, and the inspection of the more...

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Tropical Stormwater Hilary Hits the Southland

Hurricane Hilary which was classified as a Category 4 hurricane, was downgraded to a tropical storm early Sunday morning as it approached the Baja California Peninsula, according to the National Weather Service. This was the first tropical storm to hit...

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Our Street Is Being Repaved, AGAIN

A long-time Marquez Knolls resident wrote Circling the News, “It’s so strange. We have had our streets re-paved, tarred, you name it and they’ve done it [again and again]. The resident said that streets on Lachman, Buenaventura, Las Flores and Charmel Lane...

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Traci Park Asked for Money to Fix Temescal Canyon Road

Councilmember Traci Park wrote in a motion “Temescal Canyon Road is a critical thoroughfare in the Pacific Palisades Community, linking Sunset Boulevard to Pacific Coast Highway. It appears that the southbound lane of Temescal Canyon Road between Pacific Coast Highway...

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Garbage Pick-Up Tomorrow to Be Delayed Because of Strike

City employees who are represented by SEIU local 721, including sanitation workers, traffic officers and engineers, have authorized a one-day strike on Tuesday, August 8. For Pacific Palisades residents that means garbage day on Tuesday will be delayed by a...

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Behind the Post: The LA Times Propagandizes on Behalf of Bonin’s Favorite Developer

(Editor’s note: The story first ran on the Westside Current on August 7 and is reprinted with permission.) By ANGELA MCGREGOR The L.A. Times ran a July 30 editorial (“Are L.A. leaders trying to sabotage homeless housing in Venice?”) that suggests...

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Call City Officials, Urge Them to Fix Temescal Road

The Bureau of Street Services acknowledged that a trench needs to be dug and a pipe installed under the segment of the roadway that keeps buckling up on lower Temescal Canyon Road. Bureau of Street Services Senior Advisor Dan Halden...

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DWP Allows Watering Three Times a Week

Thanks to heavy rainfall last year, Los Angeles residents may now water three times a week, according to a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power July 31 press release. DWP customers have been limited to two-days-a-week outdoor watering restrictions...

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Residents Need to Contact Officials about Temescal Canyon Road

  It might be helpful if Pacific Palisades residents weigh in with the Bureau of Street Services and with Councilman Traci Park’s office about a fix for Temescal Canyon Road (contacts at the end of the story) before Palisades High...

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Temescal Canyon Moat Suggestion Appears Sound

  Circling the News has jokingly said that the City might need a moat to fix Temescal Canyon Road, which has been under construction/resurfacing since November 2022. The City has now identified there is water under the street, but to...

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