News

  • Caruso’s Faux LAPD Station on Swarthmore
    And Monument Corner May Lack a City Permit What started as a Circling the News item that was intended to be humorous and light-hearted, turned into a two-week back and forth with the City to determine if Rick Caruso’s  “LAPD” kiosk was legal. It
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  • Palisades Upcoming Events for June
    Check the Calendar, See You Around Town A reader asked if I could supply a calendar of upcoming events for Pacific Palisades. Often people don’t let me know about an event until the day before or the day of, but I do understand it would be nice to
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  • Palisades High School Nabs Championship City Titles
    In Boys Tennis and Boys and Girls Lacrosse   BOYS TENNIS WINS THREE CITY TITLES Palisades High tennis coach Bud Kling, who was inducted into the CIF City Section Hall of Fame in 2017, continued piling up championships on April 30 when his boys
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  • Evacuation Danger: Some Palisades Streets Don’t
    Have Room for a Fire Truck Because of Parking If cars are parked on both sides of a street that is so narrow it doesn’t allow a fire truck to have access to your home, would you consider it dangerous? Would you demand the City do something about it?
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  • Streets Too Narrow to Support Parking on Both Sides
    While Also Allowing Fire Engine Access According to the L.A. City regulation: no parking is allowed on a street if it is less than 18 feet wide. Parking is allowed on one side of a street if the street is between 18 and 25 feet wide. If a street is
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  • Theater Around Town:
    Noises Off Is a Delight By LAUREL BUSBY Contributing Writer Sardines, slamming doors, and silliness combine in Noises Off, a fast-paced farce that so delighted audiences last year that it has returned for an encore run at A Noise Within Theatre in
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  • Polo Field Parents Ask Community Council for Aid
    In Allowing Their Kindergarten Students at Canyon The public elementary school for people who reside in the “Polo Fields” neighborhood of Pacific Palisades (west of Allenford) is Canyon Charter Elementary School, but only for grades one through
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  • Friends of the Library Book Sale on June 1
    Will Benefit Readers–and the Branch Library Friends of the Palisades Library will hold a book sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, in the library parking lot, 861 Alma Real. Hundreds of nearly-new fiction and non-fiction, art books,
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  • Volunteers Needed to Help with Parade:
    Sylvia and Lorna Boyd Lead the Charge This year’s Fourth of July parade, themed “May the 4th Be with You,” will start promptly at 2 p.m. You may remember taking your enthusiastic kids to the parade, but perhaps this year everyone’s out of the
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  • Palisades Dog Owners Need to Be on Alert
    Foxtail Poses Serious Problems for Canines           Foxtails are an invasive grass-type weed known to spread in yards, pastures and along trails in the Santa Monica Mountains. The weed can be deadly for dogs.           Circling the News spoke to
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