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The Palisades Fire: One Year Later 
Life changed for everyone in Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu on January 7 2025. A year after the Palisades Fire those who live or work in its shadow still aren’t used to the endless roadwork, the delays, the road...
Retrospective: Pacific Palisades-Paradise Lost 
Originally published in the February 21, 2025 issue of Topanga New Times The Palisades fire is named for the Palisades Highlands, where the blaze erupted on the morning of January 7, 2025. The conflagration rapidly spread throughout Pacific Palisades...
Retrospective: Malibu Reeling 
Originally published in the March 7, 2025 issue of Topanga New Times 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...
Christmas Carols 
Villagers all, this frosty tide, Let your doors swing open wide, Though wind may follow, and snow beside, Yet draw us in by your fire to bide; Joy shall be yours in the morning! —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in...
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Built to Burn Report 

Unchecked residential development in California’s high fire-risk wildlands is increasingly a recipe for death and disaster. That’s the finding presented in a new Center for Biological Diversity report.  The report, titled Built to Burn raises serious concerns about the...
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Blood Drive 

The Topanga Community Center is sponsoring a Red Cross Blood Drive on March 12, 2021, beginning at 10:15 a.m. Volunteers are encouraged to sign up to give blood or donate red blood cells—a “power red” donation. Donating blood is...