SMMUSD HDQTRS — A highly-anticipated budget workshop this week is expected to be packed with emotion after parents at Santa Monica High School learned that several principals with the much-celebrated House System could be reassigned.
<i>Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
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The season has come to an end for Pacifica Christian’s boys basketball team. The Seawolves lost, 65-73, to Tarbut V’Torah in the semifinals of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division VI-AA playoffs on Saturday at Culver City High School.
OCEAN PARK BLVD — While the recession has taken a toll on merchants across the city, business has curiously picked up at Alfred Medina’s small shop. Little has changed at Maya Shoe Repair where Medina continues on with work as usual, fixing soles and broken heels, and trying to make the customers’ f
CYBERSPACE — For those looking to sell their bodies, strolling up and down Lincoln Boulevard looking to turn tricks just isn’t cutting it anymore. Concerned about pressure from police and pimps, some prostitutes are using the Internet to hook up with Johns, often meeting them at local hotels for sex
DOWNTOWN — The days have been noticeably busier in Michael Kurt’s jewelry store lately. The president of Jewels by Kurt on Wilshire Boulevard has for the past four months seen an influx of people selling their jewelry, hoping to make some money as the price of gold surges when the economic crisis de
14TH STREET — Benjamin Schenck learned about a local ordinance regulating parking for oversized vehicles the hard way. The owner of a recreational vehicle that was purchased on eBay three months ago for $1,200 recently discovered his home and mode of transportation was towed with a $300 fine to retr
ARIZONA AVENUE — Celia Myers was already struggling to make ends meet when a doctor broke the devastating news that she has lupus. Relying on Social Security payments and income from the occasional part-time job to support the family, the single-mother of two children from Bakersfield was met with a
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.
Those looking to contact the police department can still dial 911, but for about 30 minutes today, the non-emergency number to the SMPD’s Communications Center will be unavailable, police said.
CITY HALL — It took more than a half dozen rounds of voting and a failed attempt to call a special election, but in the end a one-time candidate and political party leader was appointed to serve the next two years of late Councilmember Herb Katz’ term.
