Executive Order on Homelessness Asks for Accountability

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: This article was first published in CityWatch on July 28, 2025 and is reprinted with permission.) BY TIM CAMPBELL A lot has happened in the homelessness arena in the past few days.  Two of those events are particularly…

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FireAid Update: Donation Clarification Asked

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Circling the News asked FireAid media spokesperson Chris Wallace on August 3, “On the FireAid website it notes that in Round 1, $500k in grants went to the restoration of Community Recreational Spaces, and that $5m in grants went to Community…

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Thomas James Homes Building in Palisades

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

It turns out that Jeffrey Sandorf, Vice President of Division Sales, Southern California Division at Thomas James Homes has a long history in Pacific Palisades. His mother had entire chapter devoted to her “cheerleader” in “What Really Happened to the…

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Pacific Palisades Residents Will Hear from AECOM

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

A Pacific Palisades Community Council special meeting will be held in conjunction with Councilmember Traci Park at 6 p.m. on Thursday, August 7. Park will lead this Zoom meeting that will introduce global infrastructure consulting firm AECOM, which has been tasked…

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LETTER: to Ricardo Lara Re: State Farm Insurance

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s Note: the following letter, dated August 1 was printed in Pasadena Now and is reprinted with permission.) Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara 300 Capitol Mall, Suite 1700 Sacramento, CA 95814 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Dear Commissioner Lara, I write on behalf…

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Amazing Design for Potrero Pedestrian Crossing Submitted for Clas Project

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Kaylie Ward  grew up in Pacific Palisades and attended Santa Monica Catholic High School. She played club volleyball at UCLA, while attending college. After graduating, she took a temporary job at the Bay Theater in Caruso’s Palisades Village when it…

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Maryam Zar Leads Recovery Coalition

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

By CHAZ PLAGER Maryam Zar has a long history of activism in Pacific Palisades, from serving on school booster clubs, to working with the Design Review Board, to sitting on the Pacific Palisades Park Advisory Board, to chairing the first…

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Friends of Pacific Palisades Library Hosts Nature Workshop

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Annually, the Friends of Pacific Palisades Library hosts a summer writing contest that is open to all students, grade 1 through high school seniors. The winners usually receive a gift certificate to a bookstore, and their stories are read aloud…

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New Power Poles in the Palisades Highlands

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

A resident wrote in a July 30 email, “I live in the Highlands and I am often on the Temescal Ridge trail and always looking at those vulnerable wooden poles.” But today?  “You can imagine my astonishment when I saw those…

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Palisades and Marquez Elementary School Rebuild in Design Phase

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

  Los Angeles Unified School District hosted two meetings last week, one for Palisades Elementary parents and the community and a second for Marquez Elementary School parents and the community. The townhalls were used to solicit information from parents about…

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