Category Archives: Kids/Parenting

Optimist-YMCA Meet Fosters Love of Track

Posted on June 10, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

  By HENRY KAMER In 2018, I attended my first track meet, the Annual Optimist Club/Palisades YMCA meet held at Palisades High School stadium by the sea. I credit the event with igniting my own love for track. Now, I’m … Continue reading →

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Leo Craig Selected as Harvard-Westlake’s Valedictorian

Posted on June 9, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

When 289 students graduated from Harvard-Westlake on June 7, the valedictorian was Palisades resident Leo Craig. During the ceremony, his speech centered around David Brooks’ book “The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life.” After reading a review of … Continue reading →

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Beating and Pulling a Patron off a Bus – Crime?

Posted on June 8, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

  There were four fights among large groups of teens on the streets of Pacific Palisades on Wednesday, June 5. CTN received a video of a fight that started in the Big Blue Bus, the driver watched as a girl … Continue reading →

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Kids Out of Control on Palisades Streets

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

  Circling the News has received photos and videos of high school students fighting. The photo above is  of three girls fighting in front of Gelson’s on Via de la Paz on Wednesday. A security officer broker it up. The … Continue reading →

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Youth Fight on Antioch Today

Posted on June 4, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

  CTN received the video of high school youths fighting on Antioch around 2:30 p.m. today in front of Elyse Walker’s store. Guards at the store tried to break it up. A bystander told CTN that it took 30 minutes … Continue reading →

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Firing BB/Air Soft Guns at Others Is a Criminal Offense

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

Walking on Swarthmore, before turning on Antioch, around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, this editor watched a young black male, around 6’, about 150 pounds, jump out of a parked car, and fire an airsoft gun at two large male … Continue reading →

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Gunfight in Parking Lot off Sunset on May 1

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: The following letter was sent by property owners to LAPD, Councilmember Traci Parks and Pacific Palisades Community Council President Maryam Zar. An earlier letter had already been sent detailing problems.) As I feared, the problem in our parking … Continue reading →

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Viewpoint: Kardashian Employee Threatens Circling the News

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

Juveniles in the town have attacked seniors, beat up younger kids, set off fire works, smashed car windows in the Alphabet Streets, graffitied local parks and others areas of the town, shop lifted and destroyed the Village Green grass. Maybe … Continue reading →

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Naughty Children. Are They Yours?

Posted on April 29, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

Resident John Alle wrote that last Friday on his way home around 8:30 p.m., he stopped to buy coffee at CVS. He parked upstairs and entered the store at the bottom of the stairwell. “I noticed complete mayhem and chaos,” Alle said. … Continue reading →

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Two Local Eighth Graders Identified with Hit and Run

Posted on April 22, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

An eighth grader was waiting in a car parked on the streets near Paul Revere Middle School on April 15.  According to the neighbors, his father went inside the school. At around 9:30 a.m., a friend, who was late for … Continue reading →

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