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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 approve two AACP contracts during his first city council meeting Tuesday night. The agreements with Rincon...

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-ballots marked by March 2 to arrive, said City Clerk Eleanor Manzano. Her staff processed 5,000 ballot...

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. “Normally we have a lot more ballots by the time the election comes around.”  Just over 5,100 ...

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 board members whose terms expired ran for reelection because they were termed out.  “Other than fo...

Editor's note: Typically, the week before an election, we limit letters to ones from candidates themselves. But, as readers didn't get a reminder of our policy this election season, we're 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 and rapidly requires working as a team. Rachel Silverman Nemeth and I have been a core part of the...