CITY HALL — The results are in! Judges with the Fifth Annual Santa Monica Teen Film Festival sifted through more than 180 submissions from across the country and Canada and screened 33 films over two days to award top honors to Harry Keenan and Max Groel of Pacific Palisades for their film.
I’ve spent the past two harrowing months covering the oil spill in the Gulf, America’s worst ecological disaster. Children and adults across our nation and the Western Hemisphere want to know what can be done to address an antiquated and toxic energy source? Humans are remarkable problem solvers.
SM PIER — With more performers seeking spots on the Santa Monica Pier to entertain the crowds, officials say the time-honored first-come, first-serve system is no longer practical.
DOWNTOWN — Aiming to ease congestion for commuters who use City Hall-owned parking structures Downtown, officials are planning to add additional pay stations to the structures so more customers can settle their bills before they get in their cars.
SACRAMENTO — The California state Assembly will vote today on a bill written by Senator Fran Pavley (D-Santa Monica) that would ban a chemical some say is toxic that is often used in plastic baby bottles, sippy cups and the lining of formula cans.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Santa Monica police have cited 12 people for selling tobacco to minors in recent months, the result of an operation on unscrupulous stores that fail to check IDs before making cigarette sales.
Over the next few weeks, the City Council will approve the city’s new Land Use and Circulation Element — the general blueprint for growth and development in Santa Monica over the next two decades.
LOS ANGELES — A woman charged in the 2008 murder of an aspiring model-actress whose body was discovered in her Santa Monica apartment received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a business associate of the victim’s father, according to a published report.
Q: I was at the gas station the other day when a man approached me and said he could repair my chipped/cracked windshield for a small fee. The man was very persistent and I didn’t feel comfortable talking to him about repairing my vehicle because the gas station does not have an area to repair cars.
VIRGINIA AVE. PARK — These are not your grandmother’s lemonade stands. Complete with a corporate sponsor, their own custom T-shirts and a Facebook page, the kids responsible for Project Lemon-aid are taking the concept of a curbside stand and turning it into a fundraising force to be reckoned with.
Dear Diary: Well, it’s been a pretty heady time for me. A few days ago, I blocked that presidential six-month moratorium on deep water drilling. That’s right, I overruled the president of the United States.
CITY HALL — The City Council won’t finalize its plan to overhaul Santa Monica’s taxi cab permitting system until this fall, but cab companies are already raising concerns about the level of transparency in City Hall’s proposal to greatly reduce the number of cabs and cab companies in town.
