Category Archives: General

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...

  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...