News

  • Kilbride Addresses Homeless Count in Pacific Palisades
    Co-president of the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness Sharon Kilbride spoke to the Palisades Rotary Club on Tuesday and detailed the number of homeless that the nonprofit volunteer group had counted during the annual Los Angeles Homeless
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  • Bonin Noticeably Silent about Palisades, Venice Fires
    (Editor’s note: This story appeared on the Westside Current on October 18 and is shared in cooperation with Circling the News.) BY JAMIE PAIGE – Editor – Westside Current Two significant fires in the last several weeks have put two CD11
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  • Fire Races up Corona Del Mar: Contained at Two Acres: PCH Closed Over Night
    The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to an 8:46 p.m. alarm of a brush fire below Corona de Mar, between Chautauqua and Potrero Canyon on October 16. At 9:25 p.m., LAFD reported “LAFD helicopters have joined LAFD ground crews in the assault on
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  • Yeehaw Day Promotes Community Spirit and Fun
     BY CHAZ PLAGER    Palisades Elementary School held its annual fall carnival, Yeehaw Day, on Saturday, October 15.   Whether the event would be held or not seemed dubious at first due to a sudden rain shower, but it let up just 30 minutes
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  • VIEWPOINT: Adversaries Unite in Support for Park
      By ALIX GUCOVSKY and BARRY CASSILLY (Circling the News has tried to remain impartial in the upcoming election and on the ballot measures, presenting readers with information, so they can make their own decisions. This column appeared October
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  • New California Law Ensures Chips in Dogs List Those Who Adopted
      By JAMIE PAIGE (This October 5 story is printed in cooperation with Westside Current.) Vaquera the pit bull is back at home with her rescue mom and siblings, but it took four years, a legal battle and exorbitant bills to get to this happy
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  • Money Can Be Found in Sports: Esports
    By CHAZ PLAGER With the advent of the digital era, more and more forms of entertainment have sprung up. One of which, video games, has been a huge hit with young and old alike. However, as with most things, humans want to know: Who’s the best? Thus,
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  • Betts Bakes Delicious Homemade Cakes
    If a resident is having a Halloween party and needs a special desert, try Betts Bakes Whoopie Pies or the ghost/mummy cupcakes. Launched in August, this new Palisades home business, Betts Bakes, was the result of Betty Morin’s love for baking and
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  • Update: Theft of Katie O’Neill’s Paintings: Friends Start gofundme
    Artist Katie O’Neill’s Fine Art Gallery was broken into on Saturday, October 8 around 10:30 p.m.  Eleven paintings, worth about $35,000, were stolen from her art studio on Antioch. Around 10:30 p.m., a Gelson’s employee saw a man, who was described
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  • Creative Writing Winners Announced at Awards Ceremony
    Friends of the Library President Laura Schneider welcomed about 50 contestants and parents to an after-school award ceremony for the summer creative writing contest held at the Palisades Library on October 6. “We’re so happy to have the event back
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