Category Archives: General

Two different transients, a squatter and a violent man, caused chaos in Santa Monica Canyon on Saturday afternoon, September 28. A man in the 400 block of Mesa Road, punched a man, and then about 15 minutes later walked up...

Just in time for Halloween, director Nancy Fracchiolla brings the delightful Addams Family Musical to the Palisades High School stage. At a preview performance, someone was laughing loud in the mostly empty audience, and then I realized it was me....

Cathy Salser spoke to the Pacific Palisades Community Council on July 25 about the mural on Temescal Canyon Road that needs restoration. To refurbish the nearly 500-foot mural across from the Palisades High School Stadium will cost about $105,000. So...

“My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes also.” Chief Henry Standing Bear The giant sculpture in a mountain that began in 1948 and is ongoing started with Chief...

By HENRY KAMER Deeply divided political parties, national tension, name calling and the question of whether or not there will be a peaceful transfer of power. Sounds like the upcoming election, right? Not quite. I’m actually referencing the election of...

(Editor’s note: This first appeared in the Westside Current on September 19 and is reprinted with permission.) By TIM CAMPBELL Scanning recent headlines about local nonprofit organizations would challenge even the most optimistic among us. The news stories include: The...

Noma Sazama, nee Larson, celebrated her 95th birthday on September 21. Growing up on the Rosebud Reservation near Mission, South Dakota, she moved to Martin, S.D. when she was in her 80s to be closer to one of her six...