Longtime KKJZ jazz disc jockey and artistic director of the non-profit Long Beach Shakespeare Company, Helen Borgers died at age 60, on Sunday, Nov. 12, about two weeks after surgery and a two-month stay in the intensive care unit of Long Beach Memorial Hospital.
Player of the Week: Barry Ogalue, Men’s Basketball – Senior Barry Ogalue poured in 20 points to lead Long Beach State in scoring as the Beach opened the season with an 83-71 win on the road at San Francisco.
While the first patent issued by the US Patent Office on July 31, 1790 was given to Samuel Hopkins for the process of making potash into fertilizer, a check of national newspaper archives reveals that Long Beach residents from its earliest days were also most inventive.
Although the Long Beach City Council has approved a “reduced intensity alternative” for a new land-use specific plan governing coastal development and wetlands preservation in the southeast area of the city, appellants of two separate lawsuits claim the plan doesn’t go far enough to protect the w
The year was 1988. Fats Domino was booked at the Summer of ’88 Together Rock and Country Festival staged at the Carson Street grounds of the Naval Hospital, now the site of the Long Beach Town Center.
