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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...

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...

Dear ER: A traffic circle? Really (“Many a close call on Prospect,” ER Feb. 1, 2021)? As if gridlock isn’t enough of a problem on Prospect Avenue, south of Aviation Boulevard, where the street is only one lane in each direction. Now our out-of-touch city council wants to put a traffic circle in at 10th Street. Speeding traffic is not the problem. It’s not possible to speed down Prospect with all of the stop signs along the way. The problem is stopping at the stop signs. Trying to slow d...

Redondo School Board candidates look past the pandemic SHARE Presenting a check to representatives of the Redondo Beach Education Foundation for $202,558 are (foreground) Friendship Foundations Nina Patel, Skechers director of Development Anne Kelly, Rabbi Yossi Mintz and Skechers Foundation Executive Director Robin Curren. The check represented proceeds from the Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship walk. Photo by Kevin Cody Reopening schools, communications, inclusiveness are priorities ...

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Local management of COVID-19 risks Just under a year ago, with the advancement of warm spring weather, larger party crowds and the reluctance of people to keep their distance in many places other than the beach, LA County closed our beaches. That caused people to congregate in even more close spaces. Local officials blatantly sat by and blamed the county. We are in a challenging moment of our health crisis, yet people still feel the need to find opportunities to congregate close. The local beac...

Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand will face three challengers in the March 2 city election. The election will also see Redondo Beach residents voting to fill three council seats, the city attorney’s position and three vacant seats on the Redondo Beach Unified School District Board of Education. Unlike neighboring cities, Redondo did not align its upcoming election date with the general elections. Mayor Brand, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, will face Chris Voisey, a chief technology offic...