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  • Attend the Marquez Halloween Festival Saturday

    In Pacific Palisades, perhaps nothing says October better than the Marquez Halloween Festival. This annual event will be held from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 20, at
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  • Proposition 2 Asks for $10 Billion: Actual Cost $18 Billion

    Proposition 2, which has been labeled “Californians for Quality Schools,” asks taxpayers to back bonds of $10 billion. It is estimated that Prop. 2 will ultimately cost $18
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  • Opinion: Gascon-minded Judges on Ballot

    By PETER DICHELLIS For many reasons, voters can find it difficult to gather information about judges, who are on an election ballot. This November voters have a clear choice
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  • What Is It? # 43

     This is an old apothecary cabinet that I bought in the mid 60’s. I believe it was imported from England. It was an antique then, so I assume it was made in the
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  • Pot Shot #30

    Ashleigh Brilliant writes: WHAT EXACTLY IS A “POT-SHOT” OR “BRILLIANT THOUGHT?” Pot-Shots are epigrams, composed according to the following very
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  • Prop 33, Prop 34 and the Controversy Over AIDS Healthcare Foundation

    By ANGELA MCGREGOR   On the face of it, there would seem to be little in common between Proposition 33 – which would do away with a 30-year-old, statewide rent control
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  • Young Adult Librarian Ziba Perez Promoted

    Ziba Perez, Palisades Young Adult Librarian, has received a promotion and her last day at the Palisades Library was Wednesday, October 16. Just shy of two years at this
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  • “Mokusatsu” Official LA City/County Policy to Residents

    By TIM CAMPBELL In the summer of 1945, once the US knew the atomic bomb worked, the western Allies issued an ultimatum to Japan: surrender or face complete destruction.  The
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  • James Corman Wins Library Writing Contest

    The annual summer youth writing contest winners were announced at a ceremony at the Palisades Library on October 9. The contest, with the theme “A Funny Thing Happened on the
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  • Southbound PCH Closure Alert

    The City of Santa Monica issued a Pacific Coast High closure at the McClure Tunnel, today, at 7:40 a.m. releasing the following statement “Due to a brush fire, East and West
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