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=   The shootings … the fire … the destruction … painful anniversaries coming up. =   Today at 2:30 … the memorial garden opens for the 13 victims of the mass shooting in the Borderline. =   A family closes its grocery store in eastern Malibu after 27 years. =   The Malibu High […]

The Woolsey Fire … a depopulated Malibu … and rising rents are conspiring against the only truly locally-owned  grocery store in Malibu. Pacific Coast Greens will close after Sunday. Everything in the store is marked down 20 to 50 percent. Yesterday … all of the shelves were still full.  A letter from PC Greens’ owner […]

The complete redesign and rebuild of Malibu High School and Malibu Middle School goes before the school board tonight. The plan has generated very little controversy or discussion … in a neighborhood that is concentrated on rebuilding after half the houses were burned down a year ago. Meeting at Malibu City Hall … the school […]

L A County and Caltrans refused requests from the City of Malibu to handle dangerous blacked out traffic lights … when the power was turned off by Southern California Edison during Santa Anas last week. And the city is firing back against criticism of the way it handled the recent power outages . The city […]

In news from up the coast … the oil industry is striking back against Ventura County … which has just extended a ban on new oil well drilling  … and a ban on using steam to push oil out from underneath the strawberry fields of the Oxnard Plain. Just 17 miles up the road from […]

At least 42 people have been shot inside or just outside short-term rental properties across the United States over the past six months — and 17 have died, according to police and news reports. The tally by the San Francisco Chronicle includes at least 23 shooting incidents in 12 states, including California, since May.  This […]

=  Malibu’s city council will respond tomorrow to a demand that it create 5 voting districts. =   Malibu High School’s gigantic campus overhaul will be decided by the school board tomorrow. =  The 101 Freeway gets named in honor of a hero cop … killed at the Borderline Bar one year ago. =  The […]

Just over the hill … part of the 1-0-1 Freeway in Thousand Oaks will be named today … in honor of a sheriff’s sergeant who gave his life trying to rescue people from a madman with a gun. One year ago … Ventura County sheriff’s Sergeant Ron Helus rushed into the Borderline Bar and Grill […]

The Malibu High School new campus plan goes up before the school board tomorrow night. Meeting at Malibu City Hall … the school board is being requested to improve hiring the architect to design the actual buildings. Rough concepts for the campus layout have been drawn up after 50 community meetings in Malibu. The plan […]

A remarkable healing event … with remarkable art … last night at the Malibu Jewish Community Center and Synagogue. “Malibu After – Bearing Witness” may be an art show … but more accurately it is a community group therapy. Photographer Eric Myer has posted 42 gigantic panoramic photos … that he shot amidst the fire […]