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Jefferson Graham, holding two of his guitars, a Benedetto Bravo Deluxe and a Martin, with an import from Portugal behind him Jefferson Graham, holding two of his guitars, a Benedetto Bravo Deluxe and a Martin, with an import from Portugal behind him. Photo by Ruth Stroud By Jefferson Graham You can never have enough guitars.  Even in a home with ten of them hanging on the walls, resting on couches, standing erect on the ground in guitar holders, I feel I’ve only just scratched the su...

A Brand new Redondo Beach SHARE Mayor Bill Brand at the AES power plant in Dec. 2016. Brand had recently enlisted the support of Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn and State Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi in converting the AES power plant into a park. Photo by Brad Jacobson Slow growth Mayor Bill Brand has big plans for the power plant, the waterfront, and the Galleria by Ralph Doyle Redondo Beach has long been overshadowed by its smaller, but wealthier neighboring beach cities, Her...

by Mark McDermott The return of Bruce’s Beach to the Bruce family came one step closer to fruition Tuesday when Senate Bill 796, introduced by Senator Steven Bradford and intended to resolve deed restrictions, quickly passed out of the Senate’s Water and Natural Resources Committee with unanimous bipartisan support.  Bradford, a Democrat from Gardena, is a member of the state’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.  The Task Force was created last y...

LA County supervisors vote to return Bruces Beach to owners descendants By CNS Author article MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to return a scenic and valuable parcel of Manhattan Beach land to the descendants of a Black couple who once operated a beach resort there -- before the city condemned and seized the site to force them out of business. LA County supervisors to vote on returning Bruce’s Beach to owners’ descendants Actin...

LA County supervisors to vote on returning Bruces Beach to owners descendants By CNS Author article MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is set to vote Tuesday on whether to return a scenic and valuable parcel of Manhattan Beach land to the descendants of a Black couple who once operated a beach resort there -- before the city condemned and seized the site to force them out of business. LA County supervisors to vote on returning Bruce’s Beach to owners’ de...

Becker, Eaton shaped surfing SHARE Mike Eaton (far left) and Phil Becker (in straw hat) with fellow Peninsula surfers, Eddie Clark, Ricky Burns, Richie Clark, Jared Eaton and Frankie Shinn at the end with the zinc oxide nose. The picture was taken at Bluff Cove by May Clark, Eddie’s wife, around ‘54 or ‘55, according to the Eatons’ sister Ann (Eaton) Medve. Photo courtesy of Steve Mangiagli Phil Becker and Mike Eaton grew up on the Peninsula to become two of the most prolific ...

Dear ER: In the 1980s, Hermosa Beach schools had an enrollment crisis, similar to today’s declining enrollment (“Hermosa cuts six teachers, including sole physical education teacher,” ER Mar 4, 2021). The answer was to get rid of the district and be absorbed, as the stepchild, into the Manhattan School District. Aviation High School was already on the chopping block. A small group of parents fought hard to remain a self-controlled district, albeit, a much scaled down version. The plan was...

But for some other local news outlets, a hibernation period was simply not possible. Despite the urgent need for local news outlets to provide relevant information to residents about COVID-19, more than 60 local newsrooms have shuttered since the start of the pandemic, according to the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism think-tank. Like Easy Reader, newsrooms that did manage to stay afloat often did so through deep staffing cuts. A record 16,160 jobs were cut across broadcast, digital an...

Eaton’s passing follows fellow shaper Becker’s, by just 7 days SHARE Mike Eaton lines up at the start of the 2006 Hennesseys U.S. Paddleboard Championships in Hermosa Beach. He is paddling a Tom Blake kook box, like the board he learned to surf at Bluff Cove in 1950 . Photo by Kevin Cody by Kevin Cody Pioneer surfer and surfboard shaper Mike Eaton passed away at his home from a stroke on the Big Island of Hawaii last Thursday, at the age of 86. Eaton’s death came just seven days...

How two childhood friends built an iconic South Bay-based brand (And how they plan to go global) by Mark McDermott  The crooked little trees started appearing around the South Bay early in the summer of 2005.  The trees were about seven inches tall, made out of metal, and usually found in pairs hanging off power lines, much the way pairs of sneakers are sometimes thrown over power lines. They veered slightly leftward, like a little pine tree enduring the wind as it grows in some unlikely plac...