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Culver City's ongoing problem with coyotes leaped to new heights on Tuesday, when three more cats were killed by the wild mongreals. The coyote situation is really out of control. Last night there were three more cats killed by coyotes: One on Keystone. one on Revere and one on Madison. That makes at least 15 cats in the past eight weeks devoured in Carlson Park. The Culver City Police Department wants to help. It is asking for volunteers to join its Wildlife Watch Program. The first meeting...
Culver City native Malea Stanton will be taking her volleyball game to the next level this summer in Pula, Croatia, and in New York as an NCAA Division I student-athlete. Stanton was selected as setter to represent the United States on the 2018 European Global Challenge All-Star Team. Stanton--the team's captain--and her nine teammates left this week for the start of the volleyball tour in Munich, Germany. They will then travel to Austria and Italy. Volleyball's Global Challenge begins July 10...
There were two burglaries in Culver City this past week, the Culver Police Department reports, adding that homeowners and renters should take extra safety-precautions as the summer vacation-season crests. Home burglaries, of course, happen all the time. But they often spike upward during the summer, said Culver City Police Lieutenant Troy Dunlap, when thousands of Culver residents leave for an extended vacation while thousands more go on a daylong excursion at the beach or on a bike trail. Here...
After winning their first two passing tournaments, the Culver City Centaurs entered one of the biggest and most prestigious tourneys of the summer--the "Bonita Air Assault" in the San Gabriel Valley. It is such a big tournament that it is played over two days. To win, it takes a combination of talent, luck and depth: Making the finals requires five games one day and five more the next. In the first game, the Cents played Glendora and blew them out, 52-18. The Centaurs were on fire, even though...
LAFC is on its way to enjoying the most successful inaugural season of any Los Angeles professional franchise in the city's long history. Also clearly emerging is a star named Dio, the 28-year old from Oslo, Norway who scored the very first hat-trick in the team's short history. Adama Diomande scored three goals as LAFC powered its way through Philadelphia Union, 4-1, on Saturday evening, June 30 at Banc of California Stadium. The forward has scored seven goals in his first five games for the...
In an apparent effort to stave-off possible action by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Public Integrity Unit of alleged Brown Act violations, the Culver City Council has re-agenized a vote for the position of vice mayor and a discussion of the Council policy on mayoral rotation. The Council Chambers Monday were packed. Mayor Thomas Small, who believes that members of the Council have done nothing wrong, limited residents who wanted to publicly address the issue at the meeting to only...
By David W. Myers Managing Editor A robbery at the Bank of America branch on Culver Boulevard in Downtown was thwarted Monday because the robber fled before the teller could hand over the cash that he had demanded. Details of the bungled hold-up at the branch at 9453 Culver were still sketchy at press time, and Branch Manager Gilbert Morales refused to take phone calls about the incident. But according to police reports, a man entered the bank and handed a note to a BofA representative...
Dear Editor, As a lifelong Liberal Democrat and 35-year resident of Culver City, I've seen lots of changes--some good and some bad. But never yet have I witnessed the City losing its moral compass . . . until tonight, June 25, 2018. The City Council convened to discuss and revisit the recent events whereby the four so-called "Progressive" councilmembers banded together to disallow Goran Eriksson, the one remaining moderate member, his rightful turn as vice mayor/mayor and instead handed it over...
Longtime Culver City resident and Culver High graduate Alejandro "Alex" Ortega has passed away quietly at his home, surrounded by his family and friends. He was 50 years old. He was born in 1968 in Los Angeles to Juan "Leo" and Candelaria Ortega and was raised in Culver City. Alex graduated from Culver High in 1986. Alex was good with his hands and enjoyed creating things. He was a master craftsman and worked as a cabinet maker. He enjoyed fishing and spending time with family and friends. He...
By Sandra Coopersmith Features Writer "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."-- John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" Anyone who's gone through a life changing experience like cancer can relate to that lyric. I certainly can. Following my diagnosis of breast cancer in 1991 I immediately turned for help to the American Cancer Society (cancer.org, 1-800-227-2345) and will always be grateful for the valuable resources they offered, all without cost to me: a Reach...
The median price of a single-family home in the state reached a record $600,860 in May, the California Association of Realtors said last week, while prices in Culver City and the rest of the Los Angeles Metro Area jumped 2.9 percent from the previous month and a whopping 9.3 percent from a year earlier. Separately, though, figures published by real estate web site Zillow.com this week suggest that many of the houses and condos that are currently for sale in Culver City are already in the...
The brilliant, rhythmic sounds of Brazil will fill the air at Culver City Hall on Thursday, July 12, when Culver's Boulevard Music Summer Festival begins at 7 p.m. on the palm-lined Dale Jones Courtyard, 9770 Culver Blvd. Admission is free. Katia Moraes and Brazilian Hearts will bring samba and other South American musical delicacies to City Hall. Moraes has played with several top-selling artists, including Sergio Mendes and Rita Lee. Also appearing will be the popular group Conganas, a Latin...
