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  • Route 66: ‘The Mother Road’ from Illinois to California 

    Historical Society to Host Route 66 Program Wednesday Night Scott Piotrowski, president of the California Historic Route 66 Association, will present a PowerPoint talk about
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  • Guilty Life in Prison: No Possibility of Parole

      Anthony Francisco Jones, 29, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on September 13 after pleading no contest to charges related to the
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  • Nighttime Lane Closures to Continue on PCH

    Caltrans, in a September 13 release, said that Pacific Coast Highway will be reduced to one lane in each direction overnight through Pacific Palisades from Monday, September
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  • Habenaria Orchids and Their Relatives

    It is time to take a break from politics and the numerous propositions that are going to be on the California ballot and enjoy beauty. The Malibu Orchid Society, a volunteer,
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  • Celebrate Route 66 History at the Pierson Playhouse

    By PATRICK HEALY It’s the highway that generations of Americans drove across the country, from Chicago to its western terminus right next door to Pacific Palisades at
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  • LETTER: Regarding Policing and Public Safety

    (Editor’s note: Krisha Thangavelu, a Pacific Palisades resident, was awarded the Pacific Palisades Community Council Sparkplug award for her public safety service.  In
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  • Pot Shot #25

      What are Pot-Shots? Ashleigh Brilliant writes: WHAT EXACTLY IS A “POT-SHOT” OR “BRILLIANT THOUGHT?” Pot-Shots are epigrams, composed according
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  • What is it #38

    This is a Mexican carpet designed to be a wall hanging. It might have hung on a wall of a simple pueblo church’s or town hall’s cinder block walls. The symbols
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  • Earthquake Strikes at 7:28 A.M.

    A measured 4.7 earthquake struck this morning, September 12,  at 7:28 a.m. off Kanan Dune Road in Malibu. It was seven miles deep according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It
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  • Homeless Influx in Palisades’ Very High Fire Zones

    The number of new transients in Pacific Palisade jumped from 34 in May, to 82 in August. The evidence of illegal fires, especially below the Via de las Olas bluffs jumped
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