Manhattan Beach Unified prepares for a full reopening of schools
Back to school never felt quite like this before. Parents with kids attending Manhattan Beach Unified School District have received a flurry of messages from the district in the last week, both full of...
View ArticleNew Power Trio: Lamkin, Stroman honored for business advocacy in pandemic,...
by Mark McDermott Nobody had any plan for this. Almost exactly 18 months ago, nearly every business in Manhattan Beach was shut down. Kelly Stroman, the president and CEO of the MB Chamber of...
View ArticleLet it out: Coming together and letting go at BeachLife Festival
by Mark McDermott and Rachel Reeves By the time the Marleys stepped onto the Hightide stage at BeachLife Festival Sunday night, 51 bands had performed several hundred songs from morning til night over...
View ArticleGovernor Newsom signs Bruce’s Beach bill into law
[See image gallery at easyreadernews.com] by Mark McDermott and Gavin Heaney Video by Jefferson Graham, Photos by Kevin Cody Governor Gavin Newsom came to Manhattan Beach Thursday morning and signed...
View ArticleThe invisible rope
Culture Club SB founder Allison Hales. Photo by Jessie Lee Cederblom Angelo Cassiano learns how to play beach volleyball. Photo by Jessie Lee Cederblom by Mark McDermott and Ryan McDonald A rope went...
View ArticleManhattan Beach Mayor Stern launches Kindness Initiative
by Mark McDermott On the morning of May 22, 2020, Maureen McBride opened up her boutique in downtown Manhattan Beach, Tabula Rasa Essentials, for the first time in ten weeks. Those ten weeks had been...
View ArticleGreenberg appointed to the MBUSD school board
by Mark McDermott Bruce Greenberg was appointed to the Manhattan Beach Unified School District at a special meeting Wednesday afternoon. Greenberg will fill the vacancy left by Jason Boxer, who...
View ArticleCommunity gathers to celebrate the life of Pat Dietz
Editor’s note: Pat Dietz, the iconic co-founder of Dietz Brothers Music in Manhattan Beach, passed away June 28 after being injured while saving his grandson from an out-of-control car in Torrance two...
View ArticleInto the Tropic of Cancer
by Mark McDermott A few years ago, a van swung onto Manuel Márquez de León, a street that runs through the downtown “Centro” district of Todos Santos, a pueblo in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The...
View ArticleTeacher layoffs still loom within Manhattan Beach Unified after Governor’s...
by Mark McDermott Governor Gavin Newsom released his proposed budget in January, and though he is attempting to spare public education from significant cuts, the Manhattan Beach Unified School...
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