Over 550 bowlers representing various businesses, social service agencies and local government will compete Feb. 4 SuperBowl-A-Thon XV, a fundraiser benefiting the Westside Shelter & Hunger Coalition.
A local funeral home is collecting old cell phones to help soldiers call their loved ones for Valentine’s Day. Gates, Kingsley & Gates Moeller Murphy Funeral Directors is asking its employees, residents and local business owners to donate “gently-used cell phones” as part of a nationwide recycling p
Families are invited to a support session at Santa Monica High School tonight (Jan. 25) to discuss the community’s psychological needs after the tragic suicide of Matthew Mezza, a freshman who jumped to his death Jan.
Dear EarthTalk Aren’t environmental issues primarily about health? Detractors like to trivialize environmentalists as “tree huggers,” but the bottom line is that pollution makes us sick, right? Wouldn’t people care more if they had a better understanding of that? Tim Douglas, Stowe, VT No doubt many
Santa Monica High School’s Trevis Jackson dribbles around Beverly Hills’ Austin Mills on Wednesday on campus. Samohi would lose the Ocean League game, 65-62.
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DOWNTOWN Services planned A service for Matthew Mezza will be held today at 3 p.m. at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, located at 6001 W. Centinela Ave.
In an effort to get Santa Monicans to shop in their neighborhoods, the Buy Local Santa Monica Committee has launched the 3/50 Project Challenge that invites people to blog about their three favorite local, independently-owned business in exchange for a chance to win prizes.
The school board will hold a special meeting this Thursday, Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. at district headquarters (1651 16th St.) to discuss and agree on a timeline for the search of a new superintendent to replace Tim Cuneo, who is retiring in June.
Dear EarthTalk: What is being done to enable ocean fish populations to rebound after being so over-fished? Are nations coming together on this in any way? — Deborah Kay, Milford, Conn.
