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Buoyed by the words of Culver City’s Chief Financial Officer Onyx Jones who said that ”our fiscal emergency is today,” the City Council voted 5-0 to declare -- without consulting the Financial Advisory Committee -- a state of fiscal emergency so a special election could be called to extend the 1/2% sales tax increase the voters passed in 2012. Measure Y, as it was called, was set to sunset (expire) in 2020. In 2012, the Council promised in its statement on the sample ballot that “All tax fun...
The Culver City Centaurs Beat Beverly Hills 55-0 Friday night ending a perfect season with ten wins and no losses. Read the full story by Sports Writer Fred Altieri in this week's Culver city Observer or online at www.culvercityobserver.com...
Earlier this year, the Culver City Police Department began a pilot program on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) commonly called drones. The drones are under strict supervision on a senior officer and are only allowed for specific assignments to aid Culver City Police and Fire Departments. Among other assignments the drone was recently deployed to assist firefighter in the recent fire at 99 cent only store on Washington Blvd. A community meeting will be held on November 7 at 6:30 pm at...
Bye Week meant a little more as the Los Angeles Rams wasted little time in moving forward following Sunday's 24-10 victory over the hapless and winless Cincinnati Bengals at Wembley Stadium in London, England last Sunday. The team traded cornerback Aqib Talib to the Miami Dolphins before Tuesday's NFL trade deadline. The five-time Pro Bowler is on the injured reserve list since fracturing his ribs in the Rams 30-29 loss to the Seattle Seahawks during Week 5. The trade was a continuation of the...
Hall of Fame Coach Bill Parcells once said, "There is winning and then there is misery." For the Los Angeles Chargers, there has been a lot of recent misery. The Chargers, losers of five of their last six games, traveled to Chicago in desperate need of a win to keep their fading playoff hopes alive. What they found was Lady Luck in the form of the Chicago Bears. The Chargers finally got a break when Bears kicker Eddy Pineiro missed a game winning 41-yard field goal attempt, giving the Chargers...
Last week all five of our local high school, college and professional football teams won their games. Culver City, USC, UCLA, Rams and Chargers were conquered their opponents. This week Culver City will play a home game against Beverly Hills at 7 p.m., on Friday., USC will face a highly ranked Oregon team at 5 p.m. at the Coliseum on Saturday, UCLA will battle the Colorado Buffalos at the Rose Bowl on Saturday at 6 p.m., the Chargers play a hot Green Bay Packer team at the Dignity Health Sports...
By Rikesh Patel Observer Intern Sarah Slemmons, currently a Culver City Middle School counselor, was officially awarded the role of California School Counselor of the Year 2020 during last week’s School Board meeting. Modestly, she thanks the counseling team she works with at the CCMS: Jeanine Lizotte, Terrence Brown, Antoinette Brown, and Christina Monroy as well as her high school colleagues and growing team. From the year 2002, one school year counselor has been selected from the entirety of California to represent our state, so Slemmons w...
After fighting the Tick fire near Santa Clarita Strike Team XLA-1075A was released and reassigned to the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County some four hundred miles north. The Kinkade fire has currently burned some 100 square miles and threatens entire towns and over 80,000 home in Northern California. 185,000 people have been evacuated. Strike team XLA1075A is made up of firefighters from Culver City, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills Fire Departments....
The Lady Centaurs didn't lose their cool, last night when they fell behind Wilson's fast start in the first set 20-10. The team made the necessary adjustments to their game as Coach Tanner Siegal began to change up their defensive rotations to take advantage of the size of their talented blockers: Daina Monore, Jayli Nealy, Lauren Tishkoff and Sophia Muller. Culver, then went on an 8-1 run to close within three at 21-18 and were still behind 23-19 when they won the final six points to pull out...
There's one game remaining in Culver City High's undefeated 2019 football season before the team starts focusing on the CIF Playoffs beginning the following weekend. The Centaurs will host Beverly Hills High for Senior Night this Friday, November 1, at Jerry Chabola Stadium. Last Friday night the Centaurs extended their season winning streak to 9-0 as they summarily dismissed the Hawthorne High Cougars, 55-8, before a sold out Homecoming crowd celebrating throughout the evening. Quarterback...
1. New England Patriots (8-0): The Pats have a dominant defense and a significant reason has been the use of the "zero blitz." The zero blitz is a defense with no deep safety help and as many as seven rushers. It requires an elite secondary that can cover man-to-man, which the Pats just happen to have. Next: -3 at Baltimore Ravens - Sun, Nov. 3 2. San Francisco 49ers (7-0): Rookie defensive end Nick Bosa was named Defensive Player of the Week in the NFC for week 8. Bosa had three sacks and an in...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) announce the first HFPA Snow Leopard Scholarship, which will be awarded to a new Asian short filmmaker during the Festival's fifth anniversary in Culver City, Los Angeles in November 2019. The festival will run Nov. 6 to 14, 2019 in Culver City. There will be no submission process as AWFF will curate the twelve films from a select number of short film festivals and programs across Asia throughout the year. A special Jury of HFPA members will decide on the...
Tito's Taco's owners Lynne Davidson and Wirt Morton along with Tito's Vodka Field Marketing Director Brian Herlihy present a check for $22,572.14 to Culver City Arts Foundation Vice Chair Jim Clarke, Treasurer Sehnita Josuha Mattison and Board Member Scott Malsin. The funds were raised at the event at Tito's Tacos celebrating National Taco Day and Nation Vodka Day. Tito's Vodka matched the ticket sales with a $10,000 donation thereby increasing the total to well over $20,000. The event was...
Star Trek's creator, the legendary Gene Roddenberry, imagined a hopeful future. The human race has abolished war, created a peaceful, sustainable and unified world, and come together with other civilizations to form a "United Federation of Planets." Join us for a lively conversation about whether such positive fictional futures might someday be realized here on earth-- and whether the vehicle for doing so might be a "United Federation of Nations." Participants include: ● Gene's son, Rod R...
by Charles and Susan Deen Special to The Culver City Observer The first Cumulus high-rise, glass-covered tower that is looming over the Culver City eastern town limits has a most glaring and major design flaw. Every day between 5 and 6 p.m., there is a sun-bright reflection that casts an overly bright and unwanted shadow upon Culver City Arts District homes. The Arts District is the trendy new name for the McManus Park neighborhood. According to news reports, the Cumulus project is a 1,200-unit...
