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2 days ago | easyreadernews.com | Kevin Cody

by Kevin CodyAn appeal of a $2,500 Hermosa Beach short term rental (STR) citation got off to a rocky start in a City Hall conference room Monday morning when attorney Frank Angel asked hearing officer Colleen Berg to recuse herself. “Is the playing field tilted?” the attorney asked the hearing officer. When Berg didn’t respond, Angel cited email exchanges between Berg, who is hired by the city to be a neutral arbitrator, and Hermosa Beach Building and Code Enforcement officer Guillermo Hobelman.

3 days ago | easyreadernews.com | Kevin Cody

As a former, 16 year Hermosa Beach City Councilmember, I am pleased over the selection of Steve Napolitano as interim city manager. Having hired city managers while serving on council the process has to be flexible. Calls for long, consultant search processes take six months and cost thousands of dollars, unnecessarily. We elected our City Council to act, not spend weeks and months hiring consultants to find us a new City Manager who can find his way to a local address without a GPS app.

6 days ago | easyreadernews.com | Jefferson Graham

In the second installment of our five-part series, we leave Route 66 Illinois for Missouri and those 13.2 miles of Kansas on the historic Mother Road. America’s first highway turns 100 in 2026 and we’re celebrating early, by getting off the highway and exploring small towns (and big ones) that are the heart of America with our iPhone cameras.

1 week ago | easyreadernews.com | Elka Worner

by Elka WornerWhen Jacqueline Miller Bachar passed away in July 2021, her son Greg found his mother had left behind an unpublished literary legacy to help him through his mourning. What began as a personal journey through boxes of her articles, floppy disks, and yellowing drafts soon became something more profound: a labor of love, and ultimately, a resurrection. “I was not fully aware of the scope of my mom’s writing about the community until she passed away,” Greg Bachar said.

1 week ago | easyreadernews.com | Judy Rae

by Mark McDermott Imagine a summery Sunday late afternoon in Manhattan Beach. You walk the winding path through Polliwog Park, the softening golden light anointing this idyllic scene with a just-lucky-to-be-here kind of feeling. Kids are playing on a sparkling new playground, shrieking with delight, and families are watching their dogs happily rumble through the new dog run. Ducks circle in the glistening little pond below. You smell the waft of food trucks as you approach the amphitheater.