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Funding Restores Hope for Two Parks in Long Beach

The City of Long Beach announced a creative partnership Friday that will propel forward two major park projects to enhance recreational activities in dense neighborhoods that lack park space. The 19-acre Chittick Field site near Pacific Coast Highway and Walnut Avenue will be revitalized with the construction of a new sports park with soccer fields, [...]

Navy Week L.A. Invites L.B. to Step Aboard

The U.S. Navy arrived to celebrate the inaugural Los Angeles Navy Week 2011 when USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), USS Princeton (CG 59), USS Chafee (DDG 90), and USS Champion (MCM 4) pulled into the earlier Port of Los Angeles this week. Events will continue through July 31. “We’re excited to be here in Los [...]

Summer University Program at CSULB Hosts Students from Switzerland and India

It’s a good thing Alvaro Monge didn’t simply delete an e-mail he received one day from Switzerland back in 2006. If he had, CSULB may not be a key player in what is now known as The Summer University in Computer Science.

Red, White & Boom! Safety Tips for Your Family This Fourth of July

By: Danny Luna, injury prevention coordinator, Family Safety Coalition at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach Time to get the barbecues, pool toys and baseball bats out of the garage because summer is officially here! Fourth of July is summer’s biggest highlight, with the warm weather, family events and fireworks, but the Fourth can often bring [...]

Wyland Initiates A challenge; Mayor Foster Accepts

Long Beach is the largest city to date to join the challenge asking residents to conserve water At a press conference at the Aquarium of the Pacific today, Mayor Foster announced that he accepted the Wyland Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation and asked the City of Long Beach to make online water conservation pledges at [...]

Metzger and Kim go 2-for-3 as Dirtbags Squeeze Past LMU

Long Beach State score three runs in the top of the fourth, two coming on a suicide squeeze bunt by Brennan Metzger as the Dirtbags held off LMU at Page Field 3-2. Metzger as well as Jonathan Kim each went 2-for-3 for Long Beach State. LMU struck first with a solo home run in the [...]

Renaissance High School Presents Damn Yankees at the Center Theater

A Renaissance High School for the Arts presentation of Damn Yankees will take the stage at the Center Theater/Long Beach Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 6th and Saturday, May 7th, 2011. Based on Douglass Wallop’s novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, the musical is set during a time when the New York [...]

Help Your Child Sleep Through The Time Change

By: Gary Feldman, M.D., medical director, Stramski Children’s Developmental Center at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach Turning the clocks ahead is an exciting time, it means we gain an extra hour of light in the evening, it marks the beginning of many baseball games and picnics and it results in a loss of a coveted [...]

Take In A Dodger Game And Leave Your Car AT Home

Metro will again offer Dodger Stadium Express bus service from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles to Dodger Stadium beginning March 28 with the Dodgers pre-game series and throughout the regular 2011 baseball season under a grant approved by the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC). In support, MetroLink will offer late-night weekday [...]

“An Angel,” and Baseball Friends, Help Raise Money to Benefit Children with Cancer at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach

The Wally Joyner & Friends Golf Classic was held at Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa Mesa benefitting Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach. Los Angeles former Angels first baseman, Wally Joyner, hosted the golf tournament in which 144 players and 23 current and former Major League Baseball players such as Bruce Bochy, Bud Black, Mickey [...]

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