Santa Monica City Manager Susan McCarthy told the City Council last Tuesday that the $383.1 million budget she and City staff have proposed for fiscal year 2005-2006 reflects “a budget context that has changed for […]

Laura WildeAriesYour creative expression will take you from your mundane life to the world of art. You have many outlets but need to focus on one. Being more creative in other areas will also jumpstart […]

Building and maintaining a durable hiking trail is more complicated than it seems. It isn’t just smoothing out the dirt, it’s determining a comfortable grade for the hillside, mapping switchbacks, tilting the surface to withstand […]

Softball Crossroads lost to Alvero, 12-0 in the second round of the CIF Division 6 playoffs. New Roads’ season ended in a 9-0 loss to Bloomington Christian in the second round of the CIF Division […]

Following an 11-0 win in the first round of the CIF softball playoffs, Santa Monica High lost by the same score in the second round. Samohi defeated Santa Paula in a home game, then lost […]

In Kevin Brockway’s first season as the Santa Monica High baseball coach, a lot was accomplished. After losing six of its first nine games Samohi swept through 10 Ocean League tests and won a CIF […]

Samohi’s men’s volleyball team cruised north in a chartered Big Blue Bus last Wednesday to face Oxnard High School in the CIF Division III Championship semi-finals, only to be bested three games to one, ending […]

New Roads, which doesn’t have a campus baseball field and plays in CIF Division 7, has advanced the furthest of any Westside school in the playoffs this season. On a day when Santa Monica High […]

I read a great book recently, Love, Medicine and Miracles by Bernie S. Siegal M.D. The subtitle of the book is  “Lessons learned about self-healing from a surgeon’s experience with exceptional patients,”  and, in it, […]

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