Category Archives: Parks
Letters: Potrero Opening on December 10
(Editor’s note: Unlike a small-town newspaper, that publishes once a week and goes to a limited number of homes, Circling the News is on the internet and has wide readership. This editor made a decision when the website` was first...
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Councilman Mike Bonin’s Final Goodbye to the Community: F You
The George Wolfberg Park at Potrero is a 46-acre passive park, with no lights or fields, which will open this Saturday. Residents learned that proposed park signs would allow people to be there from 5 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. year-round....
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Adamson House Decorated for “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
The Adamson House is festively decorated for the holiday season: “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” If one has relatives who are coming to town, or if a resident has never visited this historic 1930 beach house in Malibu, located along...
Posted in Arts, Parks, Real Estate
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The Tale of Two Palisades Parks: Temescal Canyon and George Wolfberg at Potrero
The mile-long park that stretches to Pacific Coast Highway from Frontera Drive came under serious scrutiny from neighbors at a “SPECIAL POTRERO” meeting sponsored by the Pacific Palisades Community Council on December 1. (The nearly two-hour meeting can be accessed...
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Firefighters Help String Holiday Lights on Village Green
Another long-standing town tradition occurred on the Village Green on November 26. Annually, the Village Green board strings holiday lights on a single tree in the nonprofit’s pocket park that is bounded by Sunset Boulevard, Swarthmore and Antioch. Once a...
Winds with Gusts up to 60 mph Expected: No Grilling
The weather forecast was for gusty Santa Ana winds to move into this area on Tuesday, November 15. The strongest gusts were predicted in the early a.m. on Wednesday. Santa Ana winds are dry and there is low humidity, which...
Posted in Accidents/Fires, Parks
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Nearby Park Neighbors under Attack: Resident Being Scapegoated
They strapped on headlamps in order to see in the dark, they used a cellphone flashlight to help guide them through the pitch-black night. Were they coal miners? Were they environmentalists trying to tally wild animals? No, they were illegal...
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Proposed Potrero Park Hours Need to Be Changed: Residents Urged to Reach out to Councilman Bonin
The George Wolfberg Park at Potrero Canyon is slated to have an opening dedication on December 3. Residents were dismayed to learn the park signage will state the Wolfberg Park will be open from 5 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. year-round....
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More Tree Thoughts via Letter from Arborist Carl Mellinger
(Editor’s note: Regarding the proposed tipuana tipu trees for the Palisades Recreation by the bocce courts, I invited Palisades resident and arborist Carl Mellinger, who also serves on the Village Green board to join me in the park.) He wrote...
Viewpoint: Group Think and Scapegoating: Seek Truth
In high school, we were shown “The Ox-Bow Incident” (1943 black and white film), more than once. This editor hated the Western because of the ending – if only people had stopped to seek the truth, it could have been...
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