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Students are urged to clean up

School is looming ever closer, and the Department of Public Works hopes to teach kids an important lesson: Put trash where it belongs. The department is reminding parents and teachers about the importance of educating children to recycle and properly dispose of their litter.

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/ 15 Aug 2009

Pulling strings for Puppetry Center

A grassroots campaign is underway to save the Santa Monica Puppetry Center, which is on the verge of closing this month, another victim of the slumping economy.

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/ 13 Aug 2009

Students are urged to clean up

School is looming ever closer, and the Department of Public Works hopes to teach kids an important lesson: Put trash where it belongs. The department is reminding parents and teachers about the importance of educating children to recycle and properly dispose of their litter.

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/ 13 Aug 2009

DMV closed Friday

The Department of Motor Vehicles reminds customers that all public offices will be closed this Friday, Aug. 7, as part of the governor’s plan to close the budget gap.

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/ 5 Aug 2009

Jazz it up on the lawn

With August comes Jazz on the Lawn. The free concert series presented on the City Hall lawn offers residents a chance to kick back in their favorite beach chairs for a picnic with cool breezes and the smoothest jazz, with a lineup that features Tony Award nominee Valarie Pettiford and composer and s

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/ 1 Aug 2009

Saint Anne best of the best

Saint Anne School, a local Catholic school, has been selected for the 2009 Best of Santa Monica Award in the Religious Schools category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

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/ 1 Aug 2009

Sweatshirts for charity

eBay guru Greg Kusch and his mother Eileen are encouraging their friends and associates to follow in their charitable footsteps — donating $100,000 worth of brand name hoodie sweatshirts to the Santa Monica Boys & Girls Club.

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/ 24 Jul 2009

Taking sustainability to the Web

City Hall has unveiled a new Web site aimed at fostering a greater understanding of what it means to live a sustainable lifestyle. The Web site, www.sustainablesm.

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/ 16 Jul 2009

Beating the heat

With temperatures soaring to near triple-digit territory in Southern California and rising above normal on the Westside, emergency physicians at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital encourage residents to take precautions to prevent heat exhaustion and other heat-related illness

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/ 15 Jul 2009

On the lookout

Drivers better pay close attention to pedestrians this Thursday. The Santa Monica Police Department’s Traffic Safety Unit will be out in full force that day, paying additional attention to the many crosswalks and intersections.

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/ 15 Jul 2009

COMMUNITY BRIEFS

CITYWIDE New DMV laws effective this month Those who have had their license suspended because after being convicted of Driving Under the Influence will now have to install a breathalyzer-like device on their dashboards, requiring drivers to blow into it before their car will start.

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/ 10 Jul 2009

Fourth of July parade hits Main

Saturday is America’s birthday and to celebrate the Ocean Park Association is presenting the third annual Santa Monica Fourth of July Parade. The parade will begin at 9:30 a.

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/ 4 Jul 2009