This Is the Season to Watch for Mirages and the Elusive Green Flash
Looking for a bit of magic this holiday season? The beach at sunset is a good place to find enchantment. Autumn is the season of…
Photo Album Preserves Memories of Thanksgiving in Topanga in 1917
We are on our own this Thanksgiving holiday. Los Angeles County health officials, concerned with the recent increase in COVID-19 cases, are cautioning against having…
Henry Stern Makes the Case for Fire Safe Homes
The Woolsey Fire roared through the Malibu Lake neighborhood in the early hours of November 9, 2018, damaging and destroying more than half the homes…
Wilderness Park Reopens Two Years After the Woolsey Fire
Two years after it was burned in the Woolsey Fire, Charmlee Wilderness Park is open again. The reopening took place quietly and without fanfare on…
Topanga’s Bats Are More Cute Than Scary
They are quiet neighbors, as elusive and silent as ghosts, despite often living side by side with humans. However, even if bats are seldom seen,…
Sue Ganz-Schmitt Publishes Two New Books
From the age of five, Sue Ganz-Schmitt dreamed about writing children’s books. “It was what I always wanted to do,” Sue’s life took her in…
November is Novel Writing Month
“National Novel Writing Month began in 1999. The first challenge was simply to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. The challenge has…
New Books By Local Authors
Philip Daughtry, Runaway Angels Poet Philip Daughtry was born near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in 1942, but he is also a descendant of legendary American outlaws Frank…
New Books of Local Interest
Art Books Off the Walls: Inspired Re-Creations of Iconic Artworks We are fortunate to have the world class Getty Center right here in the Santa…
69 Bravo Upgrades
69 Bravo, the critically important fire fighting helistop base high in the mountains above Topanga, has received some important improvements, just in time for peak…
