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  • Vickrey – Swapping Pot Pies for State Dinners

    By BOB VICKREY Back in my early days as a publisher’s rep, I traveled to Dallas for a luncheon with Southwest cooking legend Helen Corbitt and Stanley Marcus, the Founder and
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  • Topanga Fire Shuts Topanga Canyon Boulevard

    A brush fire in Topanga was reported around 1:56 p.m. and dubbed the OwenFire (Santa Maria Road). Initially LAFD Engine 69 reported on Twitter that it was ½ acre fire in
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  • Clever Caption Needed?

      A reader sent the following photo and wrote: “I saw this couple digesting the Saint Laurent construction cover images from a bench on the Village Green this morning
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  • Vile Graffiti Sprayed on the Large Gym

    Graffiti sprayed on the large gym at the Palisades Recreation Center is an ongoing issue. Yesterday July 24, this editor was sent a photo, taken by a park visitor around 7
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  • Palisades Park Advisory Board, “Lights, Camera, No Action”

    The Palisades Park Advisory Board held its quarterly meeting on July 20 in the small gym, where there was no air conditioning, no Wifi. The rotary fan was eventually turned
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  • Park Advisory Board Asks about Numerous Parties Permitted at the Park

    (Editors note: The Palisades Park Advisory July 19 meeting lasted more than two hours. This will be a two-story report, with the next story reporting on restrooms and a
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  • Village Green Photo Contest Announced

    The lovely private triangular park, the Village Green, will celebrate its 50th birthday, Sunday, August 27. The event will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. To celebrate
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  • Active Shooter. What Do You Do?

    Most Pacific Palisades would rather talk about anything than an active shooter. But the lessons that Sergeant Mike Harding went over at a July 19 meeting at the Legion Hall
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  • Portions of the I-10 and PCH Closed Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings

    Santa Monica announced that a portion of the Santa Monica Bluffs, above Pacific Coast Highway, is unstable and needs emergency repairs. The bluff considered unstable is
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  • Week Two: Plager Reports from Shibuya

    (Editor’s note: Chaz Plager, who will be a senior at Palisades High School and started writing for Circling the News last year, is in Japan. Before he left, he agreed to send
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