If you want to see bats, bears, and bighorn sheep, you don’t have to travel too far from the city to find them. Yes, bighorn sheep can see downtown Los Angeles from…
The Topanga Peace Alliance (TPA) hosted a meeting on July 11 to address concerns about wireless proliferation and hear a presentation by attorney Dafna Tachover of We Are the Evidence (WATE) about…
Ann Stalcup, a nonfiction writer and teacher, grew up in England where she intended to make either ballet or art her career. At some point she realized that neither career was practical.…
Joni Siegel, founder of the Foundation for Indigenous Medicine, inherited a traditional Native American recipe for a healing salve from her family. In 1995, she decided to manufacture and sell the salve.…
Fire Season officially starts July 12. At its June 19 meeting, the Topanga Emergency Management Task Force (TEM) hosted about 30 unique agencies and about as many residents, who filled the library…
Caltrans Sr. Engineer Michael Dipsia gave an update on the slope mitigation project in the S-Curves and a paving project that began in June. “We are in the process of finishing up…
Cleaning up Topanga Creek is a dirty job. Restoring it to its natural beauty doesn’t last long but every year, since 1995, Rosi Dagit, Sr. Biologist for the Resource Conservation District of…
Hand-picked, sometimes hand-made designer vacation rentals can also be a world-wide art tour. In 2000, Topanga residents Veronique Lievre and Heinz Legler completed their first handmade hotel, Verana (verana.com), in Mexico. In…
LA County Fire Chief Drew Smith and Assistant Fire Chief Anthony Williams may have some answers and, certainly some lessons learned in their presentation, “The Woolsey Fire in Review,” at this weekend’s…
Joe Blaustein took photos out the window of the pensione’s fifth floor. “Dawn was hardly dawn. On the opposite shore I could just make out a parked yellow car and half a…