Main Street Lights Up, Venice Boardwalk Tightens Up:

Last Thursday evening, Main Street’s new lights were turned on. Their primary purpose is to encourage more people to spend their evenings on Ocean Park’s principal thoroughfare. Last Saturday, artists, street performers, musicians and advocates of every sort of cause gathered on the Venice Boardwalk to protest the Los Angeles City Council’s recent effort to regulate the Venice Beach Free Speech Zone by requiring persons to pay $25 fees for L.A. Recreation and Parks Department permits and then take part in a monthly lottery for 106 designated spaces on the west side of the boardwalk.

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Letters to the Editor:

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News September 7, 2012

New Boys & Girls Club Branch Opens At Olympic High School:

The Boys & Girls Club of Santa Monica has expanded following the grand-opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Club’s new branch at Olympic High School last Thursday afternoon. Unlike the other branches, this site will […]