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A weekly community publication that focuses on the happenings in Long Beach and Signal Hill.

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Spark it up - Long Beach moves forward with cannabis sales and consumption at certain events

1 week ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz

The Long Beach City Council moved forward Tuesday to allow cannabis special events within the city, with the hopes to increase revenue and further stamp Long Beach as a tourist destination. This will allow certain events such as music festivals and fairs to have cannabis retail vendors onsite selling their product, and will permit people to smoke or consume cannabis products at these events.
Saturday Easter egg hunts in Long Beach and Signal Hill

1 week ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz

Come Sunday, many families will be gathering to enjoy a meal and each other’s company for Easter. For families with children hoping to get another day of celebrating, or needing help putting together an egg hunt for their kids, these Saturday events in Long Beach and Signal Hill offer free egg hunts, Easter Bunny photo opps, games and more. Egg Hunt in the Heights: 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Kids are invited to hunt for more than 4,000 hidden eggs around the Red Car Greenbelt during this egg hunt.
Long Beach hopes to streamline certain community-hosted events

2 weeks ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz

Part of what gives Long Beach a small town feeling are the community-led events that residents have come to love and expect. Events like the Zaferia Happy Sundays festival, Bixby Knolls’ County Fair, Taste of Downtown, the Wrigley River Run and dozens more help create a sense of community throughout the city, but for the organizations that run these events, the City’s red tape can be expensive and exhausting.
Long Beach Underground Film Fest - Something for the creative weirdos

2 weeks ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz

Different. Experimental. “The weird stuff.”These are all descriptors of the upcoming inaugural Long Beach Underground Film Fest, blazing its own path through the city and inviting the weirdos along for the ride. The experimental festival will take place July 18-20, Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, in any place that can hold chairs, people and films.
Organizers hope to ‘swing the pendulum’ more left in Long Beach — after that, the nation. - Signal Tribune

3 weeks ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz

For months, Long Beach residents have been peacefully protesting, organizing and speaking out at public meetings with one demand: Long Beach must cut its ties with Elon Musk. But for organizers, these protests are bigger than Donald Trump and Musk — it’s the latest reminder of the need for unity among the left.
Signal Hill takes its first steps toward the future with OSA

3 weeks ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz

The Signal Hill City Council approved an economic analysis for their Opportunity Study Areas (OSA) on March 25. This document outlines the potential economic and residential future of the city. The analysis will inform city officials on how to redevelop Signal Hill to ensure economic growth, job creation and a diverse tax base.
VIP Records seeks support to build museum and educational center

1 month ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz

When DJ L.C. got a job at VIP Records in 1988, he was just an 18-year-old looking to make money after the military. By taking that job sorting records, L.C. would become an instrumental figure in Long Beach culture and the birth of G-funk rap, cemented at the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
Washington residents push for urgency, funding for long-awaited community center

1 month ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz

Residents of all ages from the Washington neighborhood organized a show of solidarity at Tuesday night’s Long Beach City Council meeting to ask for a community center in the area. The Washington community has been advocating for a center to serve its youth and seniors for over a decade, and residents say progress has been slow. Over 40 neighbors, ranging from elementary school-aged students to seniors, asked the City to invest more funding to get the center to its next steps.
Second public meeting on toxic air in West Long Beach this Thursday

1 month ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is holding a virtual meeting on Thursday, March 20 regarding toxic air in West Long Beach. The two companies, Three Rivers Trucking and San Pedro Forklift, have been using a fumigant called methyl bromide for the past 28 years. Methyl bromide is a colorless, odorless pesticide that has harmful effects on people when breathed in for extended periods of time. The chemical was found in harmful amounts in West Long Beach.
Long Beach will spend $17 million to rehouse people living along the LA riverbed

1 month ago | sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz

For the next two years, Long Beach will attempt to rehouse those living in the city’s largest and longest running homeless encampment: the Los Angeles Riverbed. The City will use $11 million from California’s Encampment Resolution Fund (ERF) program and another $6.4 million from its own funding and various other grants. The $17.4 million will go towards obtaining a shelter for rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing and street outreach.