Circling The News

Co-president of the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness (PPTFH), Sharon Kilbride, was tipped off that the Roosevelt Tunnel, one of the few ways for pedestrians to safely cross Pacific Coast Highway to reach the beach from West Channel Road

  To celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Ropin’ Fool, the Will Rogers Ranch Foundation is planning a special event at the Will Rogers State Historic Park on Saturday, October 8, and all residents are invited. Come to Will Rogers Park at 1501

By BILL BRUNS Susan Orenstein, an active member of the Pacific Palisades Historical Society and the Temescal Canyon Association for many years, passed away on September 26. Born November 25, 1942, to Randall and Pauline Coates, Susan grew up in

(Editor’s note My husband was returning from the airport around 11 p.m. October 2 and saw fire engines racing down Lincoln, near Venice Boulevard. He asked what it was and this editor found the LAFD reports.  According to a spokesperson, a

Scientist and activist Dr. Jane Goodall, who is known for her landmark studies of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, was a guest of Seven Arrows Elementary School on September 28. More than 500 students in kindergarten through high school from Seven

The American Cinematheque will present a retrospective for celebrated actor and Palisadian Ray Liotta. The series starts Tuesday, October 11, and runs through Saturday, October 22 at the Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, and Los Feliz

The PPCC is accepting nominations for the 2022 Citizen of the Year and Golden Sparkplug Awards. The first Pacific Palisades Citizen of the Year was John Pixley in 1947. The tradition continued, and annually, the local town newspaper, the

“The onslaught of street tree removal by local developers continues,” a reader wrote and sent a photo of a tree that she felt was slated for removal. The reader wrote that this was one of many trees planted by Palisades Beautiful in the El Medio

(Editor’s note: Several years ago, when I visited the senior center in Valentine, Nebraska, with my mother-in-law Corrine Pascoe, I met Margaret and Ervin Figert. They had run the Todd County Tribune, a weekly newspaper in Mission, South Dakota,

By BERNICE FOX Ben Affleck is now officially a former Palisadian. He has sold his home in the Riviera. (Pacific Palisades is so special that anyone who lives here and then moves elsewhere always will be known as a former Palisadian.) With his recent