• Name: Susan Hartley • Age: 65 • Occupation: Tenant/employee attorney • Marital status/children: Single/25-year old daughter • Your neighborhood? How long have you lived there?: Sunset Park for nine years; south of Montana Avenue for two years; north of Montana for four years • Your mode of transpo
SM BAY — An all-time number of volunteers last Saturday collected more than 100,000 pounds of ocean-bound trash from local waters as part of Heal the Bay’s 21st annual Coastal Cleanup Day.
MID-CITY — Emily Kay Tillman didn’t know if her newborn twins were going to survive. They were born premature — just shy of 27 weeks — and weighed about 2 pounds each.
SM BEACH — As the sun sinks over the horizon and darkness settles over the city, bursts of light dot the beach and Santa Monica Pier. On the corner of Colorado and Ocean avenues, smiley faces and abstract words are projected on the seven-story walls of the Holiday Inn. White balloons the size of a S
• Name: David Ganezer • Age: 50 • Occupation: Local newspaper publisher • Marital status/children: Married with a daughter and son • Your neighborhood? How long have you lived there?: I have been a proud Wilmont resident since 1998.
• Name: Robert Kronovet • Age: 53 • Occupation: Santa Monica Rent Board commissioner/Small business owner • Marital status/children: Married 22 years, three children • Your neighborhood?: Sunset Park • How long have you lived there?: 20 Years • Your mode of transportation/model, make and year of you
• Name: Terry O’Day • Age: 37 • Occupation: Santa Monica City Council member, executive director at Environment Now • Marital status/children: Married, two daughters • Your neighborhood?: Pico neighborhood • How long have you lived there?: 12 years
SMMUSD HDQTRS — African American students in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District did worse on state standardized tests this year compared with 2009, despite significant improvements by the overall student body on the exams.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Tim Cuneo, superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, has announced he will step down when his contract ends in June.
Election 2010 The Santa Monica municipal elections on Nov. 2 are less than two months away. A number of forums will be held in the coming weeks to keep the community informed and educated on the candidates for City Council, school board and Rent Control Board as well as the measures that will appear
SM BEACH — Santa Monica is giving a whole new meaning to all-nighters. Instead of staying up late and filling up your textbooks with useless highlighting or watching re-runs, head on down to the beach for a night at Glow, the city’s bi-annual art and culture event.
