News

  • Lifeguard Towers on Will Rogers Beach Vandalized
    Pacific Palisades Community Council President Maryam Zar joined LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath and Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur in a L.A. County Third District Beach Cleanup with Heal the Bay on June 17 from 8:30 to 9:45. Afterwards, there
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  • Summer Creative Writing Contest 2023 Opens
    If your kids are bored, or even if they aren’t, give them a challenge these next two months. Write something longer than a text message. LOL The annual summer creative writing contest sponsored by the Palisades Friends of the Library is
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  • Homeless, Brush, and Lachman Lane Questioned
    The public safety fair, co-sponsored by Councilmember Traci Park and the Brentwood and Pacific Palisades Community Council on June 10 in Simon Meadow was rich with information, but meager with attendees. The Pacific Palisades Task Force on
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  • Viewpoint–Adults Need to Step Up Stop After-Hours Park Activities
      A middle-school boy was badly injured in a fireworks explosion that happened at the Palisades Recreation Center on June 16 around 10:15 p.m. People can tell he is hurt terribly, because his cries of anguish can be heard on the video. The kid,
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  • Accidental Journalist Covers Game of the Century
    By BOB VICKREY One recent evening as I kicked back in my recliner after experiencing a genuinely rotten day, I chose to reminisce and write about a much better one many years ago—which turned out to be one of the most extraordinary days of my life.
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  • Pet Dog Killed by Coyotes in Highlands
      When a Highlands resident let out their dog in their fenced yard in the morning on June 16, it was just like every other morning.  And then it wasn’t. The residents 13-year-old medium-sized canine was brutally attacked by two coyotes.
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  • Venice Ramada Project Remains Vacant and Won’t House Anyone Until December 2024
    By ANGELA MCGREGOR (Editor’s note: The following story appeared in a June 15 edition of the Westside Current and is reprinted with permission. CTN printed a story “Sexual Predator Moved into Venice Neighborhood” in August 2022. There were unanswered
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  • Wildlife District Ordinance District, First Proposed in 2014, Goes to PLUM
    Circling the News received several emails from people warning about the proposed L.A. City Wildlife District Ordinance and the need to warn the community. One wrote “The Wildlife Ordinance is 100 time worse than Measure ULA. It will decimate
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  • Black Ink to Close Store on Swarthmore
    Black Ink, one of Circling the News favorite stores for gifts and holiday items, will close its retail location at 869 Swarthmore at the end of the month. In the 2020 Circling the News Gift Guide this editor wrote: “One of the first years I
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  • Fireworks, Drag Racing at the Recreation Center
    Those residents who live on the rim of Palisades Recreation Center off Alma Real, Patterson Place and Frontera, have been subjected to illegal fireworks and drag racing on weekend nights for the past few months. Those activities are not harmless
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