Palos Verdes Peninsula News

All about opals. Palos Verdes Gem and Mineral Society meeting. Charlotte and Fred Ward will present a program on opals.

Wednesday. The Palos Verdes Peninsula Chamber of Commerce will host a breakfast mixer from 7:15 to 9 a.m. at Trio Mediterranean Grill, 46-B Peninsula Center, Rolling Hills Estates.

PV'S PAST IN PICS: We were 10 in 1965 , when Marineland was making its biggest splash on Long Point, one of the many promontories of Palos Verdes Peninsula stabbing out into the deep blue sea.

Palos Verdes Peninsula voters on Tuesday elected an incumbent retired librarian and a former police sergeant for two spots on the board of the Palos Verdes Library District.

Model trains will wind their way among the cactus during a model train show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Eileen Hirata, a third-grade teacher at Torrance Unified School District's Arnold Elementary School, has been named an Expo Extraordinary Educator.

Long Beach, Cal. The Marine Life Protection Act Blue Ribbon Task Force, a governor-appointed advisory group, this week reviewed three marine protected area plans for coastal waters between Point Conception and the border with Mexico.

The ocean off the Palos Verdes Peninsula has become one of the key battlegrounds in the long-running effort to implement a state law designed to create a network of habitats off the California coast to protect depleted fish populations.

In an effort to restore diminishing ocean life, a state task force will be deciding on marine preserves for the region.

A state panel postponed a decision on whether areas of the Palos Verdes Peninsula may be closed to fishing under the Marine Life Protection Act in an effort to protect ocean habitat.

The recent benefit hosted by Harbor Interfaith Services Auxiliary at the Terranea Resort was a sell out.

The waters off of the Palos Verdes Peninsula from Rocky Point, front, looking South, to past Pt.

The South Bay's job market slipped in September, but still performed better than in the county as a whole, a state agency reported Friday.

In the stunning 102 acres resort of Terranea in Palos Verdes Peninsula, the LA Times Magazine presented its first annual conference on health and wellness .

Council hosts new SP principal. Jeanette Stevens, new principal of San Pedro High School, will be guest speaker at the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council meeting.

Cathy Rady and her two daughters were able to move out of a one-bedroom apartment into one of the Hawthorne apartments designated by the city to low-income tenants.

An anonymous questioner who falsely accused two Palos Verdes Peninsula school board candidates of failing to vote has caused a flap during a simmering campaign season.

Stop and smell or just admire what some consider one of the most beautiful plants on earth at the South Bay Orchid Society's annual Fall Show and Sale.

Two kayakers paddling north from Santa Catalina Island went missing in stormy winds off the Palos Verdes Peninsula but were spotted in the wind-churned sea by a Coast Guard officer in a helicopter, a spokesman said today.

Clean sand and silt will be used to cover a vast deposit of the pesticide DDT and toxic compound PCB on the ocean floor off Southern California, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.