Santa Monica College’s student newspaper, The Corsair, won 24 awards at the 2011 Southern California Convention of the Journalism Association of Community Colleges.
Santa Monica has been designated a “Citizen-Engaged Community” by the Public Technology Institute. The institute, a nonprofit national research organization, gave Santa Monica the award for its use of Web, telephone and mobile technologies to connect residents and businesses with city services.
Film Independent announced that, for the second time in a row and the 18th time since 1985, the Spirit Awards will be held on Santa Monica Beach on Feb.
Students at Grant Elementary may soon be out of toilet paper and soap, according to boosters at the school. With efforts to fund these basic needs, Grant is inviting residents to come to the Fall Festival and help raise the school’s cashflow.
The Santa Monica Pier has recently restored a visible piece of history by returning the “Merry Go-Round” hand-painted sign to the exterior of the historic Hippodrome building, currently the home of the pier’s 1922 carousel and an old-fashioned soda fountain.
Santa Monica-Malibu school board Vice President Ben Allen has been selected by The American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) as a delegate to the Philippines for a 10-day political exchange program beginning on Nov.
The iconic Santa Monica Pier is already home to the world’s first solar-powered Ferris wheel. It now can add the world’s first wind-operated amusement park game to the list.
MAIN LIBRARY “The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips,” detective fiction author Raymond Chandler wrote in his 1943 novel “The Lady in the Lake.
The Westside’s Emergency Winter Shelter Program will open six weeks early this year in order to help deal with a sudden and dramatic increase in homelessness in Council District 11, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Councilmember Bill Rosendahl announced.
On Monday, Oct. 10, the bakery and cafe Panera Bread is donating 100 percent of sales from its Pink Ribbon Bagels to the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.
Environmentalists and seasoned politicos are weighing in on the race to represent Santa Monica in the newly-created 50th Assembly District, throwing their weight behind two Democrats.
CITYWIDE Parents who have yet to enroll their children in preschool can still apply to Head Start schools around Santa Monica, West Los Angeles and parts of South Los Angeles for this academic year.
