The Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office announced the winners of the Sixth Annual IMPACT Awards, and that one IMPACT award will be named in honor of Police Detective Kim Maddox, who passed away in September 2016 after fighting cancer.
LONG BEACH city officials and commercial real estate developers gathered on Feb. 14 to celebrate the groundbreaking of Long Beach Exchange (LBX), an airport-themed shopping center being built at the corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Carson Street in Douglas Park near Long Beach Airport.
Romance will be in the air when the Long Beach Symphony POPS! orchestra and vocalist Denzal Sinclaire pay tribute to the love songs of American music legend, Nat King Cole, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18 in the Long Beach Arena (300 E. Ocean Blvd.). Concert tickets start at $25.
Deciding you’re ready to retire is easy; deciding where is the hard part. You’re likely considering affordability to get the most out of your retirement savings, but also somewhere with warm weather and relaxing activities.
For a brief time with the recent rains, Willow and other residential streets on the eastside were flooded. Tides were high in the Naples and Belmont Shore areas. But unlike earlier days in Long Beach, no one lost their homes or property and flooding didn’t last too long.
Misty May-Treanor has become a household name, whether it be from her three Olympic gold medals, her stint on the television show Dancing with the Stars, or her title of the most successful female beach volleyball player as of 2012.
The Second Street medians in Belmont Shore will get a makeover of exotic, drought-tolerant trees to replace a variety of existing trees, some of which may be diseased and are cracking and uplifting the median and asphalt.
Fat Tuesday falls on a Saturday in Long Beach, and this year the festivities are expected to be “fatter” than ever before. The Shoreline Village will host its annual Mardi Gras Parade and Festival on Feb. 25.
