
Melissa Evans
Managing Editor at Long Beach Post
Melissa Evans is the CEO of the Long Beach Post and LB Business Journal, and a journalism lecturer at Cal State Long Beach. Contact me: [email protected]
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lbbusinessjournal.com | Melissa Evans
Vast is performing environmental tests for the International Space Station. Relativity Space just snagged the former head of Google to lead the company and its efforts on the Terran R Rocket. And Rocket Lab is getting ready to launch its 64th medium-lift rocket. The three companies, among others in the aerospace sector, have moved operations to Long Beach in recent years and have added thousands of jobs to the local economy.
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lbpost.com | Melissa Evans
A tribute to the man who wrote about Long Beach for 50 yearsTim kept an old photo near his computer at work. A few middle-aged ladies are dressed in cardigans, pearls and party hats, and one of them is gripping the barrel of a liquor bottle like she’s talking with it. The camera caught her mid-word, and it probably wasn’t a nice one. I finally asked, is that a relative? Your mom? No, he said: He just found it on the ground and kept it. “There’s a lot going on in that photo,” he said. I looked closer.
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lbpost.com | Melissa Evans
Oil infrastructure sits in the wetlands area located in southeast Long Beach in 2018. Photo by Thomas R Cordova After more than a decade of navigating approvals from over a dozen state and federal agencies, officials Thursday celebrated the beginning of work to return 156 acres of coastal land to the public.
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lbpost.com | Melissa Evans
Doing Good in the LBC is an occasional newsletter where we’ll share the latest goings-on of nonprofit organizations in Long Beach. Jean Bixby Smith is honored Saturday at the Long Beach Day Nursery’s Tea for Tots fundraiser at Catalina Landing. Amid feathered hats and antique tea cups, one of the city’s most well-known charitable causes honored one of the city’s most well-known matriarchs, Jean Bixby Smith.
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lbpost.com | Melissa Evans
Doing Good in the LBC is an occasional newsletter where we share about giving back in our city. Subscribe at lbpost.com/newsletters. Close to 1,000 people gathered in the grand ballroom at the Long Beach Convention Center on Friday as part of the YMCA’s nearly six-decade tradition of bringing politicians, businesses, nonprofits and others together on Good Friday. It’s one of the who’s-who events in Long Beach, with prayer and a praise band.
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