Seal Beach has a party coming up — and while to our minds maybe it should officially be called Incorporation Day instead of Founders Day — it still will have lots of events to attend and help celebrate the city’s 95th Birthday. There’s going to be a dinner/dance on Saturday night, October 2nd at Old … Read more
As befitting the reported founder of three cities, Phil Stanton was apparently quite the social guy. From the time he arrived in Los Angeles in 1887, Stanton wasted no time meeting people and making connections. Within his first year he had joined two Sons of Civil War Veterans groups, was President of the Unity Social … Read more
As a person with a long history of spending time on things that don’t bring in money or pay bills, it should be no surprise that I’m a history buff. Over the years of avoiding real work, I’ve spent a lot of time researching the history of our little corner of the world. And we … Read more
It might be a local tragedy. Then again it might actually be a golden opportunity. The decision last Monday to dissolve the LATV-3 non-profit corporation followed a five-month controversy that began …. Blah blah bla yada yada yada…Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz (yawn!)…. C’mon, Larry, cut to the chase. Will LATV even continue to be on the air? And more … Read more
Oct. 23, 2006 The Bixby Ranch Company – co-developer and former owner of much of what is now Rossmoor, the College Park area of Seal Beach, and southeast Long Beach is offering two immense pieces of undeveloped Central Coast property for sale. The land, which contains one of the prime surfing spots in California and … Read more
Katella Deli was opened by Sam Ratman and his sons in 1964. It was originally located in what was then called The Rossmoor Medical Park but is now the Rossmoor Village Shopping Center (where Polly’s Pies is now located) but around 1985 it moved just over a mile east to its present location at the … Read more
from the News-Enterprise, Nov. 30, 1995; Los Alamitos Television/Channel 3’s recent coverage of the Sunset League and CIF Southern Section Division I Football Playoffs has been featured regularly on broadcast stations such as KNBC-Ch. 4. But last Friday’s contest between the Los Al Griffins and the Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits was very special. When head … Read more
With the recent flak over discussions between Seal Beach, Los Alamitos and Rossmoor to explore sharing services, we thought it might be worthy to note that we have been sharing many services for a number of years. Fire, library, flood control, and sewer come to mind. The Los Alamitos Water District was pushed by the Chamber … Read more
Originally printed September 03, 1987 – LA Times Paul J. Erskine, publisher for more than two decades of the News-Enterprise Newspapers in Los Alamitos, died Wednesday of cancer at his Rossmoor home. He was 62. Erskine had been ill in recent months, according to Lowayne Sammons, the newspaper’s office manager. Erskine had owned the weekly … Read more
abstract: Unification approved — 3,550 for, 1,541 against. New school board: Margrit Kendrick 3,182, Nancy Lander 2,040, Virginia Wilson 2,910, Mark Abrams 2,547, Bernard Beskind 2,253.