Gardeners who violate the Santa Monica’s ban on motorized leaf blowers will have another set of eyes watching them come Thursday when the Office of Sustainability and the Environment take over enforcement.
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
Five out of seven seats on the City Council are open this election year. Three are full-term (four-year) seats. The front runner is Kevin McKeown, who is seeking his fourth term.
CITY HALL — Sarah Sly will never forget the day she walked into her backyard four years ago. On Dec. 11, 2006, she found her stepfather’s body lying in a pool of his own blood.
DOWNTOWN Over 3,000 school-age children — over 30 percent of the total enrollment in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified school District — chose to ride a bike, a scooter or walk to school earlier this month as part of Bike It!, Walk It! Day, sponsors of the effort said Friday.
CAMPAIGN ROUNDUP DOWNTOWN — Supporters of Measure Y, the proposed half percent sales tax increase, have donated $229, 541 to the campaign to pass the tax hike, compared with just $5,708 raised by opponents of the measure.
MAIN LIBRARY A community report on student achievement, initiatives, and the financial health of the local School District will be held in Santa Monica Monday.
DOWNTOWN — Santa Monica police officers and firefighters on Thursday said a mysterious independent expenditure group that calls itself Santa Monicans for Quality Government had misappropriated the public safety associations’ logos and was misrepresenting the groups’ positions in its political litera
When Santa Monica voters step inside the election booth Tuesday, Nov. 2, they will have the power to shape the future of their city, their schools and their quality of life.
MAIN LIBRARY — For the past 35 years, Louise Gabriel, with the unconditional support of her late husband, former City Councilman Bob Gabriel, has made it her mission to preserve and display Santa Monica’s rich history for future generations. On Sunday, that mission will finally be realized
CITY HALL — Southern Californians may be notoriously pathetic when it comes to dealing with a little wet weather, but a small (and growing) number of them are raising the bar by doing their part to keep rainwater from flowing into the Santa Monica Bay with their own rain-storage devices.
SM BLVD — Contrary to what one might believe, the term Westside Republican is not an oxymoron. Aiming to encourage conservatives on the Westside of Los Angeles to overcome intimidation and enjoy the party’s election year resurgence, the Santa Monica Republican Women Federated (SMRWF) along with Log
