Congratulations to the following readers who submitted ballots in our Best of Long Beach contest in July. Your name was randomly selected from those ballots and you will receive a prize valued at $25 or more from the contest sponsors.
A broken tombstone rests next to a tree at the Long Beach Municipal Cemetery. It’s hard to make out the name – Charles Tamma, Famma, Wamna – or the death date Jan. 22, 1879 or 1870?
On any typical weekday, residents living directly east of the Long Beach airport might well experience over a dozen student pilot flights over or near their residence every hour. During the early afternoon on a weekday, the count was 22 flights in one hour.
The 2024 Festival of Flight will return to Long Beach Airport (LGB) on Saturday, Oct. 19, to mark the grand finale of the airport’s 100th-anniversary celebrations.