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MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH 
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Christmas in Topanga, 1942 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 13, 2024 0  
The Coastwatchers, TNT’s original fiction series set in Malibu during WWII, concludes in this issue. Our story began in December, 1941, just after the United States entered WWII, and ends on Christmas, 1942. Coastwatchers focuses on the experiences of...
New Books: Local Authors / Local Interest 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 29, 2024 0  
This is TNT’s annual holiday season round up of new books by local authors and new books on subjects of interest to our local community. For more local books published earlier this year, check out our summer reads list...
Mushroom Madness 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 1, 2024 0  
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 18, 2024 0  
“And still of a winter’s night, they say,  when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon  tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight  over the purple moor,    A...
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Gratitude 

Suzanne Guldimann, November 5, 2021 0 3 min read  
COVID-19 has killed 5 million people worldwide. It’s a somber milestone in a horrific chapter of history. The statistic was—with grim appropriateness—released on November 1, the day observed by many as All Souls Day, or Dia de los Muertos—the...
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October Surprise 

Suzanne Guldimann, October 22, 2021 0 4 min read  
The appearance of giant firefighting helicopters above Topanga on October 19 wasn’t in response to a fire; it was Los Angeles County Fire Department’s annual training exercise at Helispot 69 Bravo. The four Quick Reaction Force (QRF) aircraft and...
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Surf’s Up 

Suzanne Guldimann, August 27, 2021 0 4 min read  
ON THE COVER: Power, grace, and freedom. Surfer Carolyn Daycatches the perfect wave at Topanga Beach. Surfing is an integral partof her life, a lifestyle she shares with her husband and children, butshe is often the only woman in...
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Our Neighbors 

Suzanne Guldimann, July 30, 2021 0 4 min read  
A July 19 fire in Tuna Canyon that ignited at what appears to be a short term rental property with multiple campsites, spread to 15 acres before being contained, and fanned fears throughout Topanga. In Malibu, where two recent...
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Art in the Mountains 

TNT Staff, July 16, 2021 0 4 min read  
Officials still haven’t verified the cause of the five-acre Tuna Canyon fire that ignited just after midnight in dense brush and steep terrain on July 9, but the unofficial consensus is that it started in a homeless encampment in...