Melissa Evans

1 week 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 week 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.

3 weeks 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.

1 month ago | lbpost.com | Melissa Evans

Long Beach and a large swath of Southern California felt shaking shortly after 10 a.m. Monday when a significant 5.2 earthquake hit near San Diego. The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported the earthquake as a 6.0, but downgraded it to 5.2 shortly after it struck at 10:08 a.m. A ShakeAlert notice was sent to cell phones throughout much of Southern California. The earthquake was centered in the city of Julian, just east of San Diego.

1 month ago | lbpost.com | Melissa Evans

Doing Good in the LBC is an occasional newsletter where we’ll share about local residents doing good for Long Beach. Sign up for it at lbpost.com/newsletters. Every year I used to order our columnist, Tim Grobaty, to write something about locals leaving town during Grand Prix weekend. Now that he’s retired — partly; he still writes on Wednesdays — he’s earned the right to ignore me with impunity.