News

  • December 1944: General George S. Patton and the Power of Prayer

    (Editor’s note: The following information was taken from a story in the Friends of the National WWII Memorial https://www.wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/pattons-prayer)
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  • The Menorah Is Lit at Palisades Village

    By CHAZ PLAGER It was a cold, foggy night on December 19 in the Palisades Village. However, the hundreds of people crowded around the street just outside the Bay Theater
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  • Letter: HMBAP, LLC Attorney Kenneth Ehrlich Regarding Paseo Miramar

    (Editor’s note: CTN received a letter from Attorney Kenneth Ehrlich regarding the Paseo Miramar Story. It is printed below. My response follows. Additionally, CTN reached out
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  • The Brownstone Christmas Tree

    When I lived in New York and took acting classes, I was assigned to work on a scene with a woman who was in her early fifties.  She had always seemed bemused and quietly
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  • John Lennon’s Rainbow Mittens 

    When I was twenty-in, I loaded up a suitcase with all my worldly possessions, two hundred dollars, and took a Greyhound bus from South Dakota to New York City. I was too
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  • Resilience Is One  Trait of Wisdom

    When Palisadian Dr. Laura Gabayan began the Wisdom Research Project in 2022, the eight traits continually identified with wisdom were: resilience, kindness, positivity,
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  • Viewpoint: Westwood Rec Center Doesn’t Treat Girls Equally

    This editor referees high school soccer and was assigned a girls varsity game this afternoon, Thursday, December 19, at the Westwood Recreation Center. It was a league game
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  • What Is It? # 52

    This is a cast iron fireplace fire back. They were first produced in Europe in the 15th century. Fire backs are placed on the backwall of fireplaces. Their main purpose was
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  • A Gaggle of Geese: A Pod of Whales: A Slew of Good Lawyers?

    Circling the News put out a query for a reader who wanted a good estate/trust lawyer that was local to Pacific Palisades. CTN promised to let the reader know of any
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  • Pot Shot #39.

    Ashleigh Brilliant writes: WHAT EXACTLY IS A “POT-SHOT” OR “BRILLIANT THOUGHT?” Pot-Shots are epigrams, composed according to the following very
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