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The Culver City Observer has learned that Farragut Elementary School Speech Teacher Kortney Spencer was one of the shooting victims in the Las Vegas massacre. Unconfirmed reports are that she took a bullet to the leg and underwent surgery in the past few days. The Observer will post information on Kortney's condition as it becomes available....
By Stephen Hadland Observer Publisher Culver City has moved one step closer to allowing the sale, distribution and cultivation of marijuana in Culver City. The voters of California approved the legalization in last year’s election and left cities and counties to develop their own criteria for implementation. By a 4-1 vote with Councilman Goran Eriksson opposing the council directed staff to prepare an ordinance allowing three retail stores along with several deliver services and cultivation s...
The Culver City Council will discuss potential regulations for commercial cannabis businesses on Monday, September 25 at 7 p.m. The discussion will include whether to allow storefront retail cannabis businesses ("dispensaries"), distancing requirements between similar stores, schools and parks; and multiple permits per location. The meeting will be held at City Hall, Mike Balkman Council Chambers, 9770 Culver Blvd., Culver City. Underground visitor parking is accessible off Duquesne Avenue. Please visit www.culvercity.org/marijuana to learn...
The Los Angeles Dodgers will open the 2018 season against the San Francisco Giants on Thursday, March 29 and host home games during nearly every summer holiday next season, ary schedule. The league announced the preliminary schedule this week. The 2018 season will mark just the sixth time that the Dodgers have opened the regular season in the month of March after previously doing so in 1998, 2003, 2008, 2011 and 2014, when they faced the Diamondbacks in the Opening Series in Sydney, Australia. It will mark the 12th time that Los Angeles has...
Steve, I writing you as President/CEO of the Culver City Chamber of Commerce and you as a past Chair of the Board. I find it disturbing that your Centennial publication choose to pick one position of the chamber over its 96-year history as Culver City’s leading business organization to leave a negative image of the Chamber for history to judge us by for current and future citizens of Culver City. As a matter of fact, 50% of the RAP program is being spent on administrative overhead; we did not think that was an appropriate expenditure of rare c...
Samuel Duran, 36, from Culver City was sentenced to 24 years in prison for abducted and sexually abused a 15-year-old girl with autism over a three-week period in the spring of 2015 during which she was kept inside his home. A search of the area for the teenage girl was not productive until she managed to make a phone call that was traced back to his home. On March 24 she had gone for a walk near the Mar vista Recreation Center. The girl disappeared from her Mar Vista home on March 24 of that year, prosecutors said. Law enforcement officers...
Gregory Allen Justice, 49 of Culver City who worked for a defense contractor was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for his guilty plea to economic espionage and violating the Arms Export Control Act by selling sensitive satellite information to a person he believed to be a Russian spy. It had all the twists and turns of a good spy novel, except the person he thought was a Russian Spy was an undercover FBI agent. He claimed he needed the money to care for his ailing wife who was confined...
