PCH — Officials with the city of Los Angeles warned drivers Friday that a $10 million wastewater pipe project in the Pacific Palisades will impact traffic along Pacific Coast Highway through the end of next year.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Three kindergarten teaching positions are off the chopping block after petitioners to make Point Dume Marine Science Elementary School a charter school announced they would not appeal their case to the state, yet.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Superintendent Tim Cuneo publicly apologized at the Board of Education meeting Thursday for a confidential memo leaked last week that labeled three people associated with special education as potential saboteurs.
Crime Watch is a weekly series culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
CITY HALL — Planning commissioners denied a request by city staff to move forward with the demolition and replacement of the public parking structure on Second Street at its meeting Wednesday.
CITY HALL — Neighbors of Santa Monica Place on Wednesday succeeded in shutting down, at least temporarily, an attempt by Macerich Co. to extend the number of hours people could purchase alcohol on the mall’s patios.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Board of Education is expected to accept the report of the Measure BB Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee at its meeting tonight, a document that requests more clarity and alacrity on the part of both the district and its auditors.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation has teamed up with the Buy Local Santa Monica campaign to launch a website that makes it easier for people to support public schools while at the same time saving money and helping local businesses thrive.
CITY HALL — As the state battles to meet Gov. Jerry Brown’s March 9 budget deadline, cities like Santa Monica face a difficult choice — cut hundreds of millions of dollars worth of planned projects or risk getting the funding pulled out from under them mid-stream.
CITY HALL — Elected officials and staff from City Hall and the school district met last Friday to begin conceptualizing how to honor voters’ wishes to give half of Measure Y funding to Santa Monica and Malibu schools.
DOWNTOWN — Big Blue Bus officials will conduct a series of public meetings this week to gather input on proposed changes in service that involve eliminating some lesser-used lines and stops and extending service on others.
PICO NEIGHBORHOOD — Maria Solano will never forget the day she was told by doctors that her young son was suffering from non-Hodgkin’s Burkitt’s lymphoma, a very aggressive blood cancer.
