Are you always complaining about Santa Monica College and what it spends its money on? Well, here’s your chance to get involved. The college is looking for volunteers to serve on the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee, which oversees the spending of funds generated by a series of bond measures — U, S
DOWNTOWN — In the mood for some freshly baked bread, handmade salted caramel ice cream or a sip of northern Italian style espresso? Bike, bus or walk to a Farmers’ Market near you and enjoy.
NOMA — Academy Award-winner Reese Witherspoon was hit Wednesday by an elderly driver while jogging along Georgina Avenue, Santa Monica police said. Witherspoon, who won the Oscar in 2006 for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in the Johnny Cash biopic “Walk The Line,” was transported to a nearby hosp
Should the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District put another emergency funding measure and bond on the ballot? That’s the question members of a feasibility committee will have to answer.
Snyder Diamond, a family-owned kitchen and bath company with deep roots in Santa Monica, has teamed up with the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market and appliance brands Sub-Zero and Wolf to launch a scholarship program in support of local farming education.
OCEAN AVE — Business leaders here are concerned about rumors that the American Film Market, which brings hundreds of movie industry insiders and their cash to the city each fall, is exploring a move from Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel to L.
Crime Watch is a weekly series culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
DOWNTOWN — A former Department of Motor Vehicles employee who worked in the Santa Monica field office for six years was arrested Wednesday along with another employee on multiple counts of criminal misconduct for allegedly processing and selling unauthorized driver’s licenses.
The Ocean Park Cafe is inviting Santa Monicans to chow down on a pancake breakfast Labor Day weekend, with 100 percent of proceeds going to support local restaurateur Fred Deni’s Culinary Arts After-School Program at the Santa Monica Police Activities League.
Bolstering her bid to fill California’s new vacant 50th Assembly seat, veteran nonprofit executive Torie Osborn this week secured the backing of one of California’s most powerful unions, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 18.
Santa Monica City Councilman Terry O’Day is moving on. The environmental activist who has led Santa Monica-based Environment Now since 2003 has accepted a job with eVgo to help develop California’s electric car charging infrastructure.
Public radio station KCRW-Santa Monica (89.9 FM) raised more money on Friday, Aug. 19 — the final day of its 2011 summer membership drive — than on any other day in the history of the station’s on-air fundraising efforts.
