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By Garth Meyer A notice of intent to recall Redondo Beach Fourth District City Council Member Zein Obagi, Jr. was filed Friday, Feb. 18, with the Redondo Beach…

An inside job Dear ER: History has shown over the last 100 years that hiring a police chief in Manhattan Beach within the ranks has been more successful than…

By Garth Meyer Fourth District Redondo Beach Councilman Zein Obagi has been charged with seven counts of misconduct by the California State Bar Association.

Cap art a South Redondo sensation SHARE Special-education P.E. teacher Carol Shreiner with the art she’s been making out of plastic bottle caps. Photo by Kevin Cody Special-education P.E. teacher Carol Shreiner with the art she’s been making out of plastic bottle caps. Photo by Kevin Cody by Rachel Reeves When the coronavirus became a pandemic, two seemingly unrelated things happened for Redondo Beach resident Carol Shreiner. Her news feeds began to fill up with anxious, negative ...

Memories Twitter as a force for good: One man’s 1978 photo-journey through Glasgow and how it has brought people together Just over one year ago, amateur photographer Jos Treen dusted off old negatives taken of 1970s Glasgow, that had spent the last forty years hidden away in his attic. The mesmerising snapshots, now drenched in nostalgia, came from a period in his life when he was a young man on the dole, wandering the streets of Glasgow, and armed with his camera. We are off to...

Obagi makes good on Artesia campaign promise SHARE Zein Obagi was elected to the Redondo Beach District 4 City Council seat. Photo courtesy of the Obagi campaign Zein Obagi is the newly elected Redondo Beach District 4 City Councilmember. Photo courtesy of the Obagi campaign by Dan Blackburn Newly elected Redondo Beach District 4 City Councilman Zein Obagi Jr. made good on his campaign promise to spur progress on the Artesia and Aviation Corridors Area Plan (AACAP) by voting to approv...

Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand and City Attorney Michael Webb have won reelection, Zein Obagi Jr. will be District 4’s new City Council member and Redondo Beach Unified has three new school board members after the second and final vote tally for Redondo Beach elections Friday, March 12. Redondo Beach on Friday, March 12, released the second and final vote tally from its March 2 election. More than 9,000 votes came during the three days between election night and the deadline for mail-in-ba...

by Rachel Reeves City Clerk Eleanor Manzano announced at this week’s Redondo Beach City Council meeting that results from the Mar. 2 municipal election will be tabulated on Friday.  Manzano said her team of 10 people has been working “non-stop” since the election to verify signatures on ballots postmarked by election day.  “We were inundated,” she said of this election, which was conducted entirely by mail because of restrictions designed to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus....

Incumbents ahead in Redondo Beach election SHARE by Rachel Reeves If preliminary results hold, only the board of the Redondo Beach Unified School District will change as a result of this week’s citywide election. Less than half of ballots cast were counted before unofficial numbers were announced, at 11:11 p.m. on Tuesday. According to those numbers, incumbents are ahead in the races for mayor and city attorney, as well as council members in Districts 1, 2, and 4. None of the three school b...

Editors note: Typically, the week before an election, we limit letters to ones from candidates themselves. But, as readers didnt get a reminder of our policy this election season, were including letters both from candidates and from supporters this week.   Statement from candidate Elder I’m running for school board because in the midst of a crisis we need experienced leaders. This pandemic has been devastating to our children and our entire educational community. Reopening schools safely a...