Category Archives: General

Striving to foster community connections, spark conversations and celebrate reading, the Friends of the Palisades Library will host the first-ever Palisades Reads. Featuring Laura Diamond’s novel “Shelter Us,” Palisades Reads will have its kickoff event on Wednesday, October 23, at...

  Palisades Elementary will host its annual Yee Haw Day from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 12, at the school, 800 Via de la Paz. The public is invited and there is free admission. Chairs Sunny Foroosh and...

The median on Bowdoin Street between Radcliffe and Temescal Canyon Road was fallow. The ground was so hard that even weeds found it inhospitable, and the packed-soil level had dropped six inches below the pavement. Long-time residents remember when the...

Howard Robinson, who says he is “90 percent retired,” has worked as a land use consultant since the early 2000’s. “I had just lost a job in the dot.com crisis,” he said, “and a friend said why don’t you become a consultant?”...

Potrero, Traffic Homelessness: Symptoms of Money Ill-Spent Whether you are a resident of Pacific Palisades and live next to the under-construction Potrero Canyon Park or elsewhere in the city, this mangled project dating back over 30 years should concern you....

At the October 2 L.A. Department of Recreation and Parks facility repair and maintenance commission task force meeting, Potrero Canyon Park project manager Pedro Garcia presented a $3.9 million change order to Chair Lynn Alvarez and Commissioner Joe Halper (a...

  Every summer, local youth in first grade through high school are invited to participate in a writing contest that was started in the early 1990s by the Friends of the Palisades Library. On October 2, contest organizer Kathy Slattery...

The Palisades YMCA Pumpkin Patch opened October 1 and will remain open daily through October 30 – or until the pumpkins are gone. The location is Simon Meadow at the corner of Temescal Canyon Road and Sunset Boulevard. This is...

OHL USA INC, which won the latest Portrero Canyon Park grading contract from L.A. City Department of Public Works for $13,526,579 million, now says it needs an additional $3.9 million to complete the project. At an L.A. Department of Recreation...

The annual Las Doradas luncheon, fundraiser and fashion show will be held on Saturday, October 5. A champagne tea with sandwiches and desserts made by members will be enjoyed at a home with a fabulous “forever view.” Since its founding...