December 30, 2025
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10th “Celebrating Success” Breakfast is Sept. 23:

One of Santa Monica’s most inspiring community events, the Westside Shelter and Hunger Coalition’s annual “Celebrating Success” breakfast and awards ceremony, returns next week for its tenth year. An “awareness-raiser” rather than a fundraiser, “Celebrating […]

Planning Board, Residents Dissect City’s Questions:

The Planning Commission discussed the second Planning department’s “milestone” report, “Opportunities and Challenges” on the ongoing revision of the land use and circulation elements of its General Plan last Wednesday. The land use element delineates […]

OUTRAGE FOR NEW ORLEANS:

On Monday, September 12, a small number of Angelenos gathered in front of the Federal Building in Westwood to take part in a national “Day of Outrage” at the failure of the federal government, first, […]

GREAT HIKES: Benign Adventures:

Most trailheads in the local Santa Monica Mountains offer a main route plus a choice of alternative paths. Perhaps the most diverse of all, however, is Capri, in the Pacific Palisades. This benign little road […]

Sports Briefs:

High School Football Season Begins Friday The 2005 high school football season will begin Friday, highlighted by the debut of Santa Monica High’s highly regarded team in a non-league game against West Torrance. Kickoff is […]

Venice Seeks Fourt Straight League Title:

Venice High has won the Western League football championship each of the last three years and the Gondoliers look strong again. Coach Angelo Gasca, a former star quarterback at Santa Monica College, has built a […]

League Champ Brentwood Looks Solid Once Again:

Patrick Brown has precious memories of his 26 years as the Brentwood school football coach. He easily recalls the many years of fielding eight-man teams and playing on a smaller field off Barrington Avenue, and […]