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Billions in Flight: Migratory Birds 
Autumn doesn’t officially begin until the equinox on September 22, but all across North America birds are already on the wing—billions of them. Migration times and destinations vary based on the species and variables like weather and food sources—some...
Suzanne Guldimann, September 20, 2024 0  
One-Room Schoolhouse 
Back to school. A hundred years ago in Topanga, it would have been on foot—and often barefoot—to the little, red, one-room schoolhouse by the creek in the bend of the dirt road.  Public education in California was still relatively...
Suzanne Guldimann, September 6, 2024 0  
Desert Voices 
“‘Just now our blood dances to other music.’ They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls.” The swallows in Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows...
Suzanne Guldimann, August 23, 2024 0  
Desert Daytrip 
A desert experience doesn’t always require one to crawl on hands and knees through the thornbush and cactus, regardless of what Edward Abbey says. Anyone seeking cactus, sandstone, and volcanic peaks need look no farther than our own Santa...
Suzanne Guldimann, August 23, 2024 0  
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TECS Variety Show a Success 

Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS) students shone brightly under the enchanting oaks of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in the school’s third annual Variety Show. The talent and creativity of the school’s young stars were showcased at the event...
TNT Staff, April 19, 2024 0 2 min read  
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XANADU 

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...
TNT Staff, October 21, 2022 0 1 min read  
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Pomp and Circumstance 

Under the Circumstances, Graduation Ceremonies go Virtual Social distancing to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus forced schools to shift to remote learning in March, and prevents the class of 2020 from packing students, faculty and family together for...
Diana Mathur, May 22, 2020 0 5 min read