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Apple has announced it plans to add 3000 employees to its Culver City team and expand its "state-of-the-art campus with additional space" for these new hires. "Apple's investment in Culver City shows once again that we live in one of the most desirable places on earth," Culver City Mayor Alex Fisch said in a statement. "Culver City attracts jobs for the same reason it attracts residents." "We are rich with talented people and great amenities. The challenge for our city now is to make our...
California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber Announces Threshold Hs been met to Trigger Recall of Governor Gavin Newsom. Signature Withdrawal Period. The valid signatures in the 10th report are 1,626,042, which exceeds the total of 1,495,709 signatures required. Counties still have until April 29th to verify the validity of any remaining signatures. Individuals have 30 business days to request local elections officials to remove names from recall. "This now triggers the next phase of the...
The City Council met this week to review and discuss anew the consultants' recommendations to advance racial equity and social justice in public safety in Culver City. After a seven-hour hearing on improving policing, Councilmembers passed by 3-2 vote a motion to create a public safety review committee, a mobile crisis intervention program and a plan to "de-prioritize enforcement of low-level traffic infractions." The crisis intervention program was one of the many recommendations contained in...
The CCUSD Board of Education will meet next Tuesday, May 4, to choose an executive search firm that will find a replacement for the retiring Supt. Leslie Lockhart. On April 13, Lockhart announced that she was retiring from the district after 23 years and leaving from her post on June 30. Lockhart will serve as superintendent emeritus until Dec. 31. According to Board President Tashon McKeithan, the Board has invited executive search firms to submit proposals for services by 5 p.m. on April 30....
Airport Marina Counseling Service's (AMCS) 17th annual "Spring into Well-Being” Celebration will be held on Thursday, May 6, 2021, at 5 p.m. via Zoom. The event will celebrate the success of our 2021 Champion of Mental Health Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital. Cedars-Sinai has been instrumental in helping AMCS become an indispensable part of the county’s mental health care safety net. “The hospital helped AMCS with grants to create a three-year strategic plan and funded a partnership with Mar Vista and Open Paths Family Counseling calle...
The past twelve months have been a challenge for everyone, including the student athletes at Culver City High School and the organization that supports them, the Booster Club. Centaur teams left the field of play in March 2020 and the wildly popular Casino Night event was canceled as well. Fast forward to today with the Corona virus situation improving, Centaur student athletes have begun training and games are on the schedule. How can you support them now you ask? You can join the Booster Club for the coolest socially-distanced community...
It’s hard enough being a teenager navigating the bridge between childhood and adulthood while acclimating to a pandemic, school shutdowns, remote learning, and all the attendant anxiety of these surreal times without also having to cope with the emotional stress, stigma, and financial impact of a family member’s incarceration. Nearly three million children in this country have at least one parent in prison, jail, or detention, and author and prison rights activist Amy Friedman knows how tho...
Unlike last season, the Los Angeles Chargers did not enter the 2021 NFL draft with the need for a quarterback of the future, due to the selection of quarterback Justin Herbert in the first round last year. Herbert, the offensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL in 2020, had a successful rookie campaign and with his backups in place, there was no need to address this position in the 2021 NFL draft. This draft in 2021 they should have focused on the offensive line, the defensive secondary and...
In this case, the 1-1 draw between Los Angeles Football Club and the Seattle Sounders was a fitting result at Banc of California Stadium last Saturday afternoon, April 24. It was only the second tie in the total 11 matches between the two MLS rivals that began in 2018. Both teams remain undefeated with four points and tied for second place behind the L.A. Galaxy in the Western Conference. LAFC next travels to Houston to take on the Dynamo this Saturday, May 1. "Hard-fought game. I liked our...
The three-time WNBA champion Los Angeles Sparks announced today the two-game preseason schedule for the 2021 WNBA season, a home-and-home with the Las Vegas Aces. LA will first travel to Las Vegas on May 2 and play the Aces in a scrimmage at 12 p.m. PT at Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The event will be closed to fans and media. The Sparks will then host the Aces on May 8 at 1 p.m. PT at the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC). This matchup will be an official preseason game and open to media. More details will be...
The 2nd-ranked UCLA Bruins continued in their quest to win the 2021 PAC-12 Softball Championship outright, taking three of four games from the 4th-ranked Washington Huskies this past weekend at Easton Stadium in Westwood. The Bruins prevailed, 4-2, in Sunday's deciding Game 4, withstanding late-inning rallies by Washington. UCLA grabbed the initiative, winning Friday night's opener, 6-1. The Huskies struck back in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader, 7-4, setting the stage for Sunday...
The clear winners on late Saturday afternoon under the Hollywood sign were Brooke Henderson and her fellow LPGA members. Henderson shot a pair of 67's on the weekend to win the 2021 LPGA Premia LA Open Hugel-Air at the very challenging Wilshire Country Club golf course in the heart of Hancock Park. It was Henderson's 10th career victory on the LPGA Tour against a field worthy of a Hollywood script as the leaderboard kept rewriting itself in the final round. The 10th victory also gave Henderson m...
The entertainment world had Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. The sports world has Tom Brady and Michael Jordan, and Culver City high school has Zevi Eckhaus. Obviously is not logical to compare a Culver City a high school athlete to some of the world's greatest but greatness is greatness at any level. For those of us who have witnessed his extraordinary talents the last three years we saw a junior Drew Brees. During this past season that ended a few weeks ago Eckhaus broke the school career...
The Dodgers came storming out of the gate this season with the support of rookie sensation, utility-player Zach McKinstry until he, unfortunately, suffered a right oblique strain retroactive April 22 which has continued to keep him on the shelf. The injury occurred while he was taking batting practice, and felt it on one particular swing of the bat. Oblique injuries take time to heal and he'll have to spend some time in Arizona on rehab assignment before coming back to the majors. Before the...
It's been two weeks since LA Kings veteran forward Jeff Carter was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a third-round draft pick in 2022 and a fourth-rounder in 2023 and the Penguins are continuing to breathe a sigh of relief. They are now leading the East Division, while the Kings are occupying the seventh position in the West. Only four top teams in each division make it to the playoffs, so the Kings will have to do some serious scratching and clawing to make it in. Given the fact that the...
Since Then the Effort Has Served Up Almost 40,000 Meals to Help Food-Insecure Families, Local Restaurants –When the pandemic struck early last year, a team of Culver City leaders sprang into action with a bold, innovative plan that has been a lifeline for both food-insecure residents and local restaurants. Dubbed FeedCulver, the new group began purchasing meals from struggling restaurants and developing an infrastructure to deliver those meals to families who had been adversely impacted by the pandemic. Today marks one full year since the f...
By Jack Simon, Observer Staff Writer Representatives from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District and the local community argued at Saturday’s hearing on the City of Malibu’s separation petition that splitting the district would create “irreparable harm to both Santa Monica and Malibu, specifically in the areas of diversity, equity, educational programs and finances.” Speaking at Los Angeles County Committee on School District Organization (LACOE) meeting, SMMUSD officials also invited representatives from the City of Malibu to return...
City Prepares for Riots That Don’t Happen A jury convicted Derek Chauvin last Tuesday for the death of George Floyd. In an abundance of caution, Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrook delivered a message addressing concerns of possible civil unrest. A handful of local business boarded up, but most did not. And nothing much happened, in contrast to the events of May 31, 2020. "There have been no threats or any activities specifically targeting our community," Seabrook wrote although she acknowledged "concerns happening in the broader envi...
By Jack Simon, Observer Staff Writer The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education on Friday morning voted 5-2 to reject the latest City of Malibu counter proposal on “unification” or separation. This latest offer would have required SMMUSD to support the Malibu’s petition in exchange for the City and District agreeing to be bound by whatever financial recommendation the Los Angeles County Committee on School District Organization (LACOE), its staff and consultants might make at a future date, district officials said....
By David Ganezer Have you ever wished that you could be recruited by the Men in Black? This story is about a guy who actually was. One day in 2001, Mansour Jabbaar (M.J.) George was strolling through the Topanga Canyon mall when he was stopped by a casting director from Central Casting. She asked MJ, if he would like to try out to be a Body Double for Will Smith. Columbia studios was then filming Men in Black II, and they needed an actor who resembled Smith. She gave MJ a card and told him to meet her later that day on the Sony Pictures lot....
Culver City High School has been recognized as one of the best high schools in California, according to a new ranking by U.S. News and World Report. Culver High was ranked #240 among more than 2600 public high schools in the Golden State in the publication's latest analysis of upper school education. In fact, it is ranked #1,622 in the nation. U.S. News reviewed nearly 24,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia and 1,675 California schools made its rankings, according...
