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The Palisades Fire Revisited 
January 9, 2026 0 9  
The Palisades Fire: One Year Later 
Suzanne Guldimann, January 9, 2026 0  
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 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 26, 2025 0  
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 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 26, 2025 0  
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 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 12, 2025 0  
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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OAK TREE Club 

TNT Staff, October 17, 2025 0 1 min read  
OAK TREE Club is an after-school & enrichment program on the Cali Camp & Manzanita School Campus located in the mountains of Topanga on Old Topanga Canyon Road. OTC is operated by a team of experienced educators, specialists, counselors...
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Turtles Party in the Pond! 

Rosi Dagit, November 3, 2023 0 4 min read  
Editor’s note: The western pond turtle is the only remaining native freshwater turtle in California. This once-abundant species is increasingly at risk from habitat loss, climate change and water quality issues. The western pond turtle is a California species...
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XANADU 

TNT Staff, October 21, 2022 0 1 min read  
October 29 & 30… a community theatre production of XANADU Produced by FOCUSfish, Directed by Kristy Beauvais and Gabbi Beauvais Local teens are taking the lead in Xanadu, a romp of a musical that takes the 1980 movie material...
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Food for Thought 

Claire Chapman, April 23, 2021 0 8 min read  
Waste /wAYst/  n.  any unwanted material or substance that results from a human activity or process. Damaged, defective, or superfluous material Resource  /ˈrēˌsôrs,rəˈsôrs/ n.  a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon...