PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Witnesses to a crime who are too scared to come forward can now do so without fear by making an anonymous tip. The Santa Monica Police Department has joined with 24 other local law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles County to participate in Crime Stoppers, a program in whic
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CITYWIDE — For years, marijuana dispensaries in the city of Los Angeles spread like wildfire; without a workable city ordinance in place regulation became impossible and enforcement was nonexistent.
NEW YORK — The Convergence Partnership — a collaboration of six of the nation’s leading funders, plus the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — awarded Santa Monica-based The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation $80,000 for their work building healthier, more equitable communities.
MALIBU — City officials here can move forward with the construction of a new park that will also serve as a water treatment facility following a court ruling Tuesday which dismissed a pair of lawsuits filed by Santa Monica Baykeeper.
Santa Monica’s outdoor ice skating rink is now open until midnight every day until Jan. 2. The Bayside District Corp., a public-private management company that promotes and maintains Downtown, has extended the rink’s hours to give visitors more time to make holiday memories.
Given our present economic and environmental concerns, recycling is the theme this holdiay season — from wrapping paper to regifting, and now, to Christmas trees.
FOURTH STREET — Frugal shoppers looking for designer threads without breaking the bank will have another store to hit and Fourth Street will get a serious retail anchor to replace bankrupt Circuit City.
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.
MID-CITY — It’s one of the most common excuses for why people don’t exercise: “I just don’t have the time.” For many of the nurses at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, that excuse is legitimate.
CITYWIDE — “Merry Christmas, what can I get you to drink?” It’s a seemingly harmless phrase that’s been spoken countless times this month at gatherings and company holiday parties.
DOWNTOWN — This holiday season, two local art students are showing commuters just how compatible recycling and art can be. Anyone waiting at the Big Blue Bus stop on Broadway just west of the Third Street Promenade can expect a view of the heavy construction on the new mall across the street.
