MALIBU — As the June 1 start date to the Malibu Lagoon Restoration Project gets closer, several new groups have spoken out in opposition to the plan to use bulldozers to reshape the stagnant lagoon’s channels in order to stimulate better water flow.
CITY HALL — A hotel workers’ union will pull a challenge to a new hotel now that the developer has agreed to allow the union to organize future workers at the site.
The City Council last Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the Fairmont Miramar Hotel renovation process to commence. The next step is environmental review and negotiations that will culminate in a development agreement to substantially rebuild and enlarge the property.
DOWNTOWN — Since the beginning of the year, City Hall has intervened behind-the-scenes to keep approximately 50 low and extremely-low income individuals in their apartments after rents increased beyond the threshold of their government subsidies and ability to pay.
It seems that at least a couple of fairly large, privately-owned fitness organizations have found a great, free place to hold their exercise classes and boot camps — Palisades Park.
CITY HALL — The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation got a much-needed injection of cash from the City Council Tuesday night to support its new role as the main fundraiser for programs in the local school district.
OLYMPIC HIGH SCHOOL — City officials accepted a proposal this week from a local nonprofit to help lessen its impacts on the neighborhoods and businesses around it, but residents remain skeptical that the agreement has any teeth.
It’s not easy growing old. Aching knees, blurred vision and slower reflexes are just part of it. Oftentimes it is the mental more than the physical that brings difficulty dealing with the transition.
CITY HALL — Under a plan approved in concept by the City Council Tuesday night, seniors in Santa Monica will have more ways to get around, but will have to give up a cherished activities space at the Senior Recreation Center in Palisades Park.
CITY HALL — Negotiations between City Hall and developers of a Downtown hotel will begin after the City Council voted to move ahead with the project in the wee hours of Wednesday morning despite widespread concerns about its design and imposing size.
CITY HALL — E. Richard Brown, former chair of the Santa Monica Airport Commission, died unexpectedly Friday after suffering a massive stroke. He was 70.
In response to Joan Walston’s letter (“Not happy with NIMBY,” Letters to the Editor, April 21-22) about Step Up on Second, Common Ground, and Friends of Sunset Park, here are a few facts: Ms.
