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Due to work on the Higuera Street Bridge Replacement Project, the Ballona Creek Bike Path between National Boulevard and Duquesne Avenue will be closed temporarily for at least one week. City officials said the bike path may reopen as early as October 5. The path may be open intermittently during the period as construction allows and signage will be placed directing bike traffic to Jefferson Boulevard. Bicyclists will be able to enter and exit the bike path at Duquesne Ave. If you have any...
Join the Friends of the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center for an informative evening about your tweens/teens and sleep. Culver City High School implemented a later start time one year before the state mandated it. Are our teens now getting enough sleep? Probably not. Find out more on Monday, October 10th at 7:00 p.m., when the authors of Generation Sleepless will be speaking at Village Well Books & Coffee, 9900 Culver Blvd., Culver City. Every night of the school week, the average teen in the...
Apple is planning to break ground early next year on its new campus at the intersection of Venice and National Boulevards. Dubbed the "Culver Crossings" project, Apple's new campus would rise from a 4.5-acre property on the border between Los Angeles and Culver City. A draft environmental impact report has shed on light on the proposal. The tech giant plans to raze existing improvements, including a series of commercial buildings and surface parking, to make way for two new buildings containing...
A suspect was arrested this week in connection with a series of sexual assaults targeting female Santa Monica College students, school authorities announced. In a statement Monday afternoon, Santa Monica College Chief of Police Johnnie Adams said: "Christopher Noah Griddine II, age 27, was taken into custody around 8:20 a.m. on a probable cause arrest warrant for felony sexual assault." The arrest was made on the SMC campus by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department with the assistance of...
A man was struck and killed by a car while riding a bicycle into oncoming traffic in Mar Vista last Sunday, authorities said. The crash occurred around 12:30 a.m. near Centinela and Mitchell avenues, where the car was going southbound on Centinela and the bicyclist was headed north, according to Officer Rosario Cervantes of the Los Angeles Police Department. Paramedics rushed the victim to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries. Police officials said the cyclist was...
Kentwood Players proudly presents NIGHT WATCH, a noir thriller by Lucille Fletcher, opening Friday, September 23 through Saturday, October 8, 2022 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 PM at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045. Directed by Brandon Ferruccio, and co-produced for Kentwood Players by Kim Peterson and Catherine Rahm with rights secured from Dramatists Play Service, Inc., the cast features (in alphabetical...
Free community event, Water Harvest, returns in-person on Saturday, Oct. 22 The West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) will bring the community together at its facility in El Segundo on Saturday, October 22, 2022 from 10am to 2pm for a birthday themed water education festival celebrating 75 years since the District’s formation. The free, family-friendly event seeks to share its water wisdom through stage shows, games, water recycling facility tours, giveaways, opportunity drawings and more. Please visit www.westbas...
Seventeen cats were killed last Saturday after a massive fire raced through a Venice Boulevard strip mall on the outskirts of Culver City that included an overnight boarding facility for pets. The fire in the 9000 block of Venice Boulevard in Palm was reported around 5:45 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Firefighters arrived at the scene to find Cat Place LA and multiple other businesses in the strip mall engulfed in flames, said LAFD. Although thick smoke charred the...
In its effort to make “reparations a reality,” the Culver City Council has given its blessing to staff to prepare and issue a request for proposals to “conduct an historical context study of the city of Culver City.” At its recent meeting, the Council unanimously agreed to appropriate $150,000 from the general funds for the study and a consultant to oversee the project. With its action, Culver City follows in the footsteps of West Hollywood which recently approved a Request for Proposal of a Historical Context Study that would guide them in...
Culver City police arrested two suspects last week, shortly after they allegedly stole a catalytic converter near the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Cota Street. The arrest occurred a few minutes after midnight on September 14, according to Culver City Police Department. Residents reported the theft to CCPD and provided information about the suspect’s vehicle and the direction of travel, police said. “An officer was patrolling the area and located the suspect vehicle near Overland Ave...
The emerging screenwriting team of Renée De Palma and Mary Mackey have accomplished an unusual feat. They have been nominated three times in three separate writing categories at the City Of Angels Women's Film Festival. "When City Of Angels Women's Film Festival wrote and told us we had been nominated, I was so excited, but I wrote and asked them, which screenplay was it?. A letter came back with 'Ms. De Palma all three of your works have been nominated in all three categories'," says De...
A five-county enforcement effort targeting internet crimes against children netted 141 arrests, authorities announced on Wednesday, Sept. 14. “Operation Protect the Innocent” was conducted Sept. 6-12 by personnel from the Los Angeles Internet The task force, led by the Los Angeles Police Department, covered Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The enforcement effort coincided with children returning to school. The task force receives cyber tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that...
A Beverly Hills man was sentenced to five years behind barsthis week for trying to hire a “hit man” to kill a woman he briefly dated in 2020. In June, Scott Berkett, 25, pleaded guilty to a single count of using interstate facilities to commit murder-forhire, which carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. However, prosecutors agreed to seek a penalty of no more than five years, according to the plea agreement filed in Los Angeles federal court. Federal prosecutors said Berkett met the victim online, and she flew to Los Angeles to meet him...
September 24 marks the return of the Culver City Rotary Community Foundation’s Walk & Roll Festival. The Walk & Roll Festival is a free, family-friendly event focused on teaching kids how to safely ride their bikes to and from school. As part of the city-wide Safe Routes to School program, the Festival is open to all Culver City students as well as neighboring schools. Now in its 10th year, the Walk & Roll Festival has proven to be a valuable community event for kids of all ages. Participants h...
Culver City police arrested a motorist in the early hours of September 13 on "suspicion of manufacturing assault weapons." The arrest occurred around 1:45 a.m. near the corner of Sepulveda Boulevard and Pigott Avenue, after officers conducted a traffic stop for numerous hazardous violations, according to the Culver City Police Department. "While speaking with the driver and passenger, the officers could see illegal drug paraphernalia in plain sight," said CCPD in a Facebook post. "Through their...
The Culver City Chamber of Commerce will hold two Candidates’ Forums over the next two weeks to find out more about those running for the City Council and School Board this November. The Chamber will host a forum for City Council Candidates on Tuesday, September 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Exceptional Children's Foundation - Kayne Eras Center, 5350 Machado Road. Culver City. All six Candidates are expected to attend the event and provide answers to important issues facing Culver City in the comi...
West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) announced today that it will host five drive-through rain barrel pick-up events at locations throughout the service area to give away a total of 1500 barrels. The event series will begin on Saturday, September 24, 2022 and conclude on Saturday, November 19. Eligible program participants must register at www.westbasin.org/rain-barrels to reserve up to two free 50-gallon rain barrels valued at approximately $80 each. “The West Basin Board is h...
A Beverly Hills man was sentenced to five years behind bars this week for trying to hire a "hit man" to kill a woman he briefly dated in 2020. In June, Scott Berkett, 25, pleaded guilty to a single count of using interstate facilities to commit murder-for-hire, which carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. However, prosecutors agreed to seek a penalty of no more than five years, according to the plea agreement filed in Los Angeles federal court. Federal prosecutors said Berkett met the victim online, and she flew to Los Angeles to meet...
By David Ganezer Observer Staff Writer "He's survived by his wife Jennifer and his kids Dominic and Jenna. He was a loving, genuine and caring person." .11.22: A Culver City neighborhood came out to wash cars to honor the memory of Byron Simmons, who died in a motorcycle crash last Sunday. He was 42. The carwash is a fundraiser for his family, to cover funeral costs and other expenses. The carwash is on the corner of Sawtelle and Hayter Avenue. This is about 3 blocks west of the intersection of...
The Culver City Sister City Committee, a non-profit organization that fosters international friendship, seeks four high school students (two boys and two girls) to participate in an exchange trip to our sister city in Kaizuka, Japan from Feb. 10-21, 2023. We will hold an informational meeting on Sept. 21, 2022, beginning at 3:30 at the Julian Dixon County Library/4975 Overland Ave/Culver City, CA 90230 Applicants must fulfill the following requirements: • Be in the 8th-11th grade. • Be an excell...
The culver City Police Department made one arrest for driving under the influence at Friday nights DUI checkpoint with one additional for driving with an invalid driver’s license according to Sgt, Solve Loken Eight hundred twenty-five vehicles passed through the checkpoint, twenty-nine were questioned an eight hundred twenty-five were just waved through and not stopped....
An investigation targeting Electronic Benefit Transfer card fraud in Los Angeles County has led to the arrests of 16 suspects and the seizure of hundreds of illegally cloned EBT cards and more than $100,000 in cash, local authorities said this week. ``For some time now, suspects have been stealing the private account information of California's EBT card holders,'' the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement. ``These suspects then create illegal cloned cards encoded with that victim account information and conduct large cash...
On the 21th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Culver City Police and Fire Departments will hold a remembrance ceremony this Sunday at Culver City Fire Station 1, 9600 Culver Boulevard, to honor the men, women, children, and first responders who lost their lives. The public is invited to the 8-minute ceremony which starts at 6:55 a.m. The details include: 6:55 a.m. Crews assemble in front of the flag. 6:59 a.m. Time of the South Tower collapse. 7:00 a.m. One minute of complete silence. 7:01...
With the help of a K-9 unit, Culver City police have arrested a man accused of robbing at gunpoint two people using a Chase Bank ATM on Sepulveda Boulevard last week. The accused robber, 23-year-old Randall Wiley, was captured on September 1 after he crashed his car into a telephone pole while trying to evade officers, Culver City Police Department said in a press release. According to CCPD, the suspect robbed two people withdrawing money from the ATM at 5670 Sepulveda Boulevard just minutes apa...
Culver City Mayor Daniel Lee will host an evening of roundtable conversation among neighbors on Thursday, September 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Culver City Middle School Cafeteria, 4601 Elenda Street. Topics will include sustainability and the environment, equity and inclusion, housing and homelessness, public safety and the future of Culver City. Everyone is invited to attend and participate in the informative session. There will also be entertainment and refreshments. Participants are urged...
