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Free Chamber Music Concert on February 23
Chamber Music Palisades continues its programming despite the venue (Palisades United Community Methodist Church) and founder Susan Greenberg’s home burning to the ground. The Sunday, February 23 concert will take place at 3 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church...
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Letter: Regarding Rick Caruso
(Editor’s note: This letter was sent from resident John Alle to his brother, who owned a condo on Albright Street and asked if the Bay Theater has been saved. Alle sent the letter to CTN with permission to publish it...
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Saving the Koi Fish: Losing the Goats: Debris Blocking Sunset
The runoff from the burn scar from the Palisades Fire resulted in the banks of Rustic Canyon Creek overflowing. The heavy rain, flowing down the denuded hillside, overwhelmed the channel. It breached the bridges and flooded yards and homes on...
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Good News for Paly Y Members
Palisades Malibu YMCA Executive Director Jim Kirtley said that a get-together is being planned for all Palisades YMCA members, no matter where they are living now, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Collins and Katz YMCA Gym. “Join us,...
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LETTER: So Many Questions to Public Officials: No Answers
Thanks for continuing to look for answers as to how our community was allowed to burn to the ground. I don’t think we will get straight answers from our elected officials. Ours is a one-party government run entirely by liberal...
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Blanck’s Student Savoian Places at International Tournament
Gerry Blanck has been an inspirational teacher in Pacific Palisades for 43 years, but the Palisades Fire burned his martial arts center in the Marquez Business District on January 7. One of his students was not going to be deterred...
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Legion Hall Opens to Assist Residents/Fire Victims
Past Ronald Reagan American Legion Commander Jim Cragg announced that he had been selected to head a project to open a support center at the Post, at 15247 La Cruz Avenue, below CVS, next to the Post Office. “Tomorrow, Tuesday...
Why Where Firefighters Told to Abandon the Neighborhood?
Although reporters have made numerous public information requests for the Palisades Fire about the number of resources and the timing, the requests have gone unfilled. A number of ham radio operators were monitoring the channels on January 7, 8 and...
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More Postal Updates, Delivery in Palisades
CTN ran a story about a Fair Insurance Plan check delivered to a location in the Alphabet Streets. The home had been destroyed by the Palisades Fire, but the mailbox was intact. Several readers commented. One wrote “I went to...
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Tales From the Evacuation Zone
By DEBBIE ALEXANDER I am writing this piece from the comfort of our Air B & B located in Wilshire Vista located near Pico and Fairfax. Why? I am an evacuee with my husband, Scott, our 25-year-old daughter Lily and...
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