After several meetings of detailed review, Santa Monica’s Planning Commission endorsed the “spirit, approach and concepts” embodied in the land use and circulation element strategy framework (LUCE). LUCE delineates the distribution of different types of […]
Escalating gas prices seem to be affecting everything these days and the Big Blue Bus is no exception, with its ridership skyrocketing to record levels. Dan Dawson, who is the Manager of Customer Relations for […]
A proposed senior housing project at the corner of 17th Street and Montana Avenue is encountering opposition from some neighbors who charge that it will cause parking and traffic problems and that the project’s developer […]
Fifty-three Pico neighborhood graduates of Santa Monica High School and Olympic High School were honored Thursday, June 26, at the Virginia Avenue Park Teen Center in a “Next Steps” reception celebrating the graduates’ success. Teen […]
Four seats on the Santa Monica City Council are up for grabs in the November 2008 election, and Mayor Pro Tem Richard Bloom ushered in the campaign season on Monday, June 30, with a “birthday […]
In unrelated incidents, a Gardena man was shot to death in the alley between 19th and 20th Streets in Santa Monica on Saturday, June 28, and the Santa Monica police participated in the June 27 […]
The high school baseball season is over and a new one is months away, but this is an important time for players to show professional scouts what talent they possess.There are numerous off-season events which […]
Santa Monica College’s football team has begun practice for the upcoming season.Because Corsair field is unavailable due to the installation of FieldTurf, the team is practicing on the baseball field at Santa Monica High School […]
I spent Sunday at Dodger Stadium, and participants were as astonished as fans about how, on the previous evening, the Dodgers won a game without getting a hit.The Dodgers’ 1-0 victory over the Angels was […]
Jesse Teplitzky was successful in his first season as a head basketball coach. At 29, following nine years as an assistant at different schools, he arrived at Santa Monica College and guided the Corsairs to […]
