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  • 1 week ago | 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.

  • 1 week ago | 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.

  • 1 month ago | 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.

  • 1 month ago | 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.

  • 1 month ago | 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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Melissa Evans
Melissa Evans @MelissaEvansLBP
7 May 24

I love what @kdoctor said about this incredible recognition: It was a huge win for community journalism. Yes indeed! And so proud of @FernandoAHaro and his work in contributing to this. https://t.co/gTpg523wuO

Melissa Evans
Melissa Evans @MelissaEvansLBP
23 Apr 24

Please watch this beautiful video by @Artscphoto about one of last living masters of Cambodian ceramic art, and the local woman who is hoping to keep the art alive: https://t.co/w8NKtOAdt0

Melissa Evans
Melissa Evans @MelissaEvansLBP
12 Apr 24

RT @jeremiahdobruck: Yep, that was a tiny little baby earthquake that just hit Long Beach. https://t.co/LnBj5IVrE3