Category Archives: General

Vandals Destroy Village Green Lights The Charlie Brown Christmas tree on the Village Green, which each holiday season is decorated with strings of lights, went dark this past week. Circling the News received a December 20 email from Village Green...

PaliHi Football Players Recognized On December 20, CIF LA City Section Sports Coordinator Dick Dornan released the names of the players who had been selected for the 2018 Football All-City Teams. The Open Division was dominated by players from champion...

Damon Geller Dies at Topanga Beach Pacific Palisades resident Damon Michael Geller, who was surfing at Topanga State Beach on Thursday night, died of an apparent medical emergency, authorities said. According to the coroner’s office and the Los Angeles County...

Tiny Sweaters Help Raise $500+ (Editor’s note: Circling the News received the following letter from former Chamber of Commerce president Sandy Eddy on December 21.) Dear Friends, What started as a simple request for some Christmas tree decorations turned into...

Christmas/Holiday Odds and Ends Hurry, Hurry…Tree Lot Closes Sunday The Palisades-Malibu YMCA will sell Christmas trees through December 23 at Simon Meadow in Temescal Gateway Park off Sunset. There are trees small enough to fit on tables and every size in between,...

LAPD’s Moore Provides Crime Report And Tips for Crime-Free Holiday Pacific Palisades Senior Lead Officer Michael Moore spoke to the Rotary Club in November and the Business Improvement District board in December about ways to thwart crimes around the holidays....

Community Council Honors Five Activists Five people were honored for their exceptional accomplishments in Pacific Palisades at the annual Community Council holiday dinner and awards gala held on December 13 at Gladstone’s. This year, Bob Harter and Jimmy Dunne shared Citizen of the Year honors...

Paliskates Opened Sunday: Welcomed by Caruso Loyal customers have been waiting patiently to see if Paliskates would reopen. The store had closed in February 2017, when Paliskates owner Erica Simpson rented the 1019 Swarthmore space to Caruso’s Palisades Village construction...

Two Potholes on Temescal Shake a Reporter’s Car Driving on the downhill side of Temescal Canyon Road on December 12, my car jolted as I ran over what I later learned was one of two potholes in the fast lane....

Palisades Optimists Aid Salvation Army For more than 40 years, the Pacific Palisades Optimist Club has participated in Kettle Day, a fundraiser for the Salvation Army. Annually, members stood in front of CVS, Ralphs, the Post Office and Bank of...