Community News

Peninsula Multi-Fatality
JUST PAST MIDNIGHT on Sunday, Aug. 22, a two-car wreck cost the lives of four young people. Three passengers in a black 2003 Ford Mustang, Candice Bustamante, 32, a Long Beach mother of five and Delysa Castro, 16, of Long Beach died at the scene. A still-unidentified 19-year-old male died in the hospital. ...
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Long Beach Flugtag
RED BULL FLYING DAY – A crowd estimated by sponsors in excess of 100,000 were on hand at Rainbow Harbor last Saturday to witness the flight (or lack thereof) of 34 homemade flying machines off the end of a 30-foot high flight deck. “Peepin’ It Real” (below, center) won first place with a bi-plane that ...
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Millikan Trumpet Player Named 2010 Cole Scholar
by Rick Gloady
Tony Belletti, 18, of Long Beach has always had a high regard for the music program at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and looks forward to studying the trumpet with the talented faculty that he has admired for years. In recognition of his leadership, persistence and talent, the ...
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Electric Metering Power to the People
by Steve Propes
The final link between the Edison Company and its namesake Thomas Edison is going the way of the buggy whip. Say goodbye to the traditional electric meter, that glass-covered device with small spinning wheels recording your every energy use. The faster they spin, the more you’re using. And say ...
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Community News
Free Lecture The MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute will present a lecture featuring Serge Tobias, M.D., medical director of electrophysiology. The lecture is titled “Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances: New Hardware” and will be presented Sept. 21 at 6 p.m. at the Houssels Forum at Long Beach ...
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