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The ART of PYSANKA 
April 18, 2025 0 22  
TREES IN BLOOM 
Suzanne Guldimann, April 18, 2025 0  
This isn’t one of those springs when the hills are covered in a vivid profusion of wildflowers. The Santa Monica Mountains have received just a fraction of the average rainfall for the season. Hot weather is already arriving, drying...
SAVING THE COAST 
Suzanne Guldimann, April 4, 2025 0  
The Trump Administration is taking aim at the California Coastal Commission, and according to a recent New York Times article, the President may have an ally in California Governor Gavin Newsom. The Times headline states “Trump and Newsom Find...
Mission Impossible U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
Suzanne Guldimann, March 21, 2025 0  
If it’s dangerous, difficult, or downright impossible and it involves American infrastructure, disaster recovery, or water resources, there’s a good chance the US Army Corps of Engineers will be the ones called in to deal with it, sometimes with...
Malibu Reeling 
Suzanne Guldimann, March 7, 2025 8  
The Malibu stretch of Pacific Coast Highway turns 100 next year. It’s strange to know its centennial will begin with a third of the houses, businesses, landmarks that have built up along this road over the past century almost...
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Diary of a Fire 

TNT Staff, February 7, 2025 0 15 min read  
Jan. 31, 2025 – three weeks and four days after the Palisades and Eaton Canyon fires started. As I sit on the couch, watching tennis from Australia, my mind keeps wandering back to what happened around three weeks ago....
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Community Corner 

TNT Staff, February 7, 2025 0 9 min read  
A letter from Willow Geer, Theatricum Botanicum As I sit here, miraculously back home, surrounded by suitcases I am reticent to unpack, I try to wrap my mind around the past two weeks.  A fever dream of evacuating with...
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FIRST PERSON 

TNT Staff, January 24, 2025 2 9 min read  
We received some personal stories from the community. Below are submissions from Bill Buerge from the Mountain Mermaid, Kraig Hill from Malibu and Rosi Dagit from Topanga During the Palisades fire, Bill Buerge threw open the doors of the...
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ON THE GROUND 

Urs Baur, January 24, 2025 1 5 min read  
Urs Baur submits his experience “Too Close For Comfort: A Community’s Resilience in the Face of Fire” I’ve lived in this canyon for 25 years, and while fires are a constant threat, they’re never routine. Each event carries its...