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  • Crime Continues to Soar in Santa Monica

      FOUR-YEAR-OLD ABDUCTED: The Santa Monica Police Department responded to a call at 12:11 p.m. in the 1900 block of Lincoln. A four-year-old girl and her grandmother
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  • Noel Coward’s “Design” on Odyssey Stage

      By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor It wasn’t until 1939 before Noel Coward’s Design for Living hit the London stage, despite having opened on Broadway seven
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  • Goodbye Vons, Hello Piggly Wiggly

    As the merger of Kroger and Albertsons seeks approval from federal antitrust regulators, many residents in Pacific Palisades worry about losing the Vons grocery store located
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  • Op-Ed: CD 11 Neighbors Stage Rally in Support of Traci Park

    (Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the Westside Current July 14, and is reprinted with permission.) By CHRIS LE GRAS Motorists Motorists traversing the
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  • Taking a Leap of Faith

    By NINA KIDD The Palisades Neighborhood Prayer Project, 2024, is underway. Twenty Palisades friends and neighbors met to pray on June 4. Across denominations they came
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  • “Orchids 101” for Beginners

    The Malibu Orchid Society Monthly meeting, which is held in Hart Lounge at the Community Methodist Church in Pacific Palisades, will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 16. The
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  • “Grease” a Must See

    Instead of spending another boring evening scrolling through streaming services, how about having some real fun? Grease, performed by Theatre Palisades Youth, is exceptional.
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  • Welcome to the Neighborhood Reverend Shaver

    Community United Methodist Church on Via de la Paz has a new minister, Reverend John T. Shaver. The church’s former minister, Dr. Wayne Walters, retired July 1. Shaver’s
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  • What is It? Special Edition – Summers Past:

    Howard Yonet explained that this “What Is It?” story is bit complicated because it spans a thousand years. In the year 1007 AD the Chinese Qingming Emperor
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  • Looking Back at a Four-Year Journey

     When Jim Cragg was elected commander of the Ronald Reagan American Legion Post 238 in Pacific Palisades in 2020, the Post was a hidden-away gem, with little or no community
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