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Senator Henry Stern’s ‘Never Again Education Act’

By The Canyon Chronicle June 11, 2021

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Kummerspeck Live at the TCC on May 15, 5-7 p.m.

By The Canyon Chronicle May 14, 2021

Topanga Library is Open

By The Canyon Chronicle May 14, 2021

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Freedom Summer

By The Canyon Chronicle May 14, 2021

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TAC Carries On!

By The Canyon Chronicle May 14, 2021

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Topanga Town Council Report—February and March

By Annemarie Donkin April 30, 2021

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Topanga Historical Society Zoom Event: ‘Messenger Photos’

By The Canyon Chronicle April 30, 2021

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Catalytic Converter Theft Prevention event

By The Canyon Chronicle April 16, 2021

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Elon Musk’s Space X is Target of Stop 5G International Protests

By The Canyon Chronicle April 2, 2021

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Topanga Lagoon Restoration Moves Forward—Slowly

By Annemarie Donkin March 19, 2021

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Neighborhood Security and Disaster Preparedness

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The Truth About Medicare TV Ads

By The Canyon Chronicle March 19, 2021

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The Truck Bomb Election

On February 26, 1993, shortly after noon, a Ryder rental truck pulled into the parking garage of the North Tower at New York’s World Trade Center. Packed inside was a 1500-l ...( Read More )

By Joel Bellman January 22, 2021

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That Was the Year That Was…the Worst

By Joel Bellman December 24, 2020

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In My Defense

By The Canyon Chronicle December 11, 2020

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Topanga Peace Alliance Vigil Turns Ugly

The Topanga Peace Alliance (TPA) has held a Friday Evening vigil at Pine Tree Circle in the heart of town for 15 years. The Vigils have become a Topanga traditi ...( Read More )

November 13, 2020

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After the Rain

After the rain there is a sparkle in the Topanga air. Water droplets hang like tiny diamonds on the trees. The sun glints and shimmers off the yellow roses, a s ...( Read More )

By Kathie Gibboney November 13, 2020

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Native Americans: First to Settle, Last to Vote

When we think of vote suppression, we tend to think of the familiar, the obvious, the visible, aimed primarily at African-Americans in the Deep South: onerous p ...( Read More )

By Joel Bellman November 13, 2020

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Outliers Versus the Bigs

I have always had a soft spot for outliers. I have lived my life closely with people who think and act outside of the Bell Curve. As challenging as that locatio ...( Read More )

By Paula Labrot November 27, 2020

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A ‘Rude Interruptions’ Trump Index

Women Who Have Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct: 26 Coronavirus-Infected People in Trump White House Inner Circle: 34 Americans Who Have Perished in the Cor ...( Read More )

By Joel Bellman October 16, 2020

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As the Presidential Election Looms, Young Voters Look Local

Twenty-one-year-old Polly Pierone was born in LA—but until a few months ago, she hadn’t paid much attention to her city’s local politics. Growing up, she ...( Read More )

August 21, 2020

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Ferreting Out Fake News Online

The 2020 election is only a few months away and the amount of information available to the public is overwhelming. Social media sites, blogs, online publication ...( Read More )

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Kindness Counts with the Census

What would inspire a nerdy, numbers-loving introvert to take a job with the U.S. Census Bureau, going door-to-door gathering data as an enumerator? My tim ...( Read More )

September 4, 2020

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No ‘Third Way’ for this Presidential Election

Why this year’s presidential election, especially, is not the one for voters to play around with third-party candidates. Once again, we are hearing the sir ...( Read More )

By Joel Bellman August 21, 2020

Features

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A Personal View Of The Ssfl Cleanup, Part 2

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World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing Will Save Mountain Lions

By Annemarie Donkin May 14, 2021

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International Women’s Day—#Choose To Challenge

By Kait Leonard March 5, 2021

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A Personal View of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory Cleanup

February 19, 2021

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Fire Storm at Berry Creek

By Flavia Potenza October 30, 2020

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The Topanga Historical Society Presents ‘1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic: An Historical Perspective’

By The Canyon Chronicle October 16, 2020

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‘There’s no racism in Argentina’

September 18, 2020

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The Sound of Summer Playing

By Joel Bellman July 24, 2020

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Black Lives Matter

By T.E. Zeri June 26, 2020

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Following Juneteenth Protests Continued in DTLA

By T.E. Zeri July 10, 2020

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Teens: Empower Your Power Behind the Wheel

By Kait Leonard August 21, 2020

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The 400-Year-Old Pandemic: Police Violence Against Blacks

By Kait Leonard June 26, 2020

Schools

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A Special Visit

On Wednesday, June 2nd, Topanga Elementary Charter School had a special visitor, LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner! Having met him a few times, I extended the invitation to ...( Read More )

June 11, 2021

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Lessons in Leadership

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Celebrating School Traditions

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TECS Alumnus, Zennon Ulyate-Crow

Zennon Ulyate-Crow had a great start to his education at Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS) and has many paths to choose from as he starts college. Zen ...( Read More )

May 28, 2021

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Treasure

Teachers look for treasure. Not the typical chests filled with gold, but the gems found within their students. Children enter kindergarten as diamonds in the ro ...( Read More )

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Welcome Back to Campus!

It has been a long wait for the Return to Campus. In-person instruction ended over a year ago but on April 20 and 21, there was a staggered re-opening of Topang ...( Read More )

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School Reopening Offers Options, Excitement Grows

Envisioning the future as schools across the state plan their reopening, many of our young students cannot wait to be there: “I’m so excited to see all my f ...( Read More )

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From Topanga to Mars

Additional reporting by Phoenix Rodan On February 18th, the teachers of Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS) made space in their daily schedules for a sp ...( Read More )

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Arts, Science, and Community

By TECS News Team; Additional reporting by Phoenix Rodan As Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS) teachers continue to find innovative ways to engage thei ...( Read More )

February 19, 2021

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Happy Anniversary Children’s Corner!

In spite of the challenges of the past eight months, local Topanga treasure, Children’s Corner Play Center is open for business and its business is play. The ...( Read More )

By Kathie Gibboney October 30, 2020

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Art Will Go On

Distance learning at Topanga Elementary Charter School is running smoothly. Of course, there are a few technology glitches, and we all realize this is not the o ...( Read More )

By Amy Weisberg, M.Ed. October 30, 2020

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Don’t Open Schools

Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will not be opening on time as planned. On July 29, LAUSD superintendent Austin Beutner gave a press release ...( Read More )

Science

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The Vernal Equinox

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Beach fires, Evacuations and Fire Report Highlight October Town Council Meeting

By Annemarie Donkin October 30, 2020

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The Dragon Flies

By Paula Labrot June 26, 2020

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The Autumnal Equinox

September 18, 2020

Health

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In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation establishing the second week in May as National Stuttering Awareness Week. Today, the National Stuttering Association co ...( Read More )

May 14, 2021

COVID-19: It’s Not Over Until It’s Over

By The Canyon Chronicle April 16, 2021

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Treatments Available for COVID-19 Patients

By The Canyon Chronicle April 2, 2021

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Calabasas Leads on Clean Power

Calabasas, one of the original member cities of the Clean Power Alliance votes 100% Renewable Energy for Homes and Businesses The Calabasas City Council enth ...( Read More )

By The Canyon Chronicle February 5, 2021

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Nix the Dryer Sheets. Reduce Chemical Exposure

Lilies and Linen,”” Outdoor Fresh,” “Super Fresh!” When I walk down my little street here in Topanga there are so many scents wafting out onto the str ...( Read More )

February 5, 2021

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I Am Love’: A Collection of Virtues from our Children

“I AM LOVE” is a book for parents and children by Lynn Raynr and Aimee Porter that presents photo essays and the words of children speaking their truth abou ...( Read More )

By The Canyon Chronicle November 27, 2020

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It’s the Roaster Not the Roast

Need a little afternoon pick-me-up? Well, put down that espresso and find a lively, lightly roasted bean. Approximately 64% of Americans drink coffee every ...( Read More )

By Kait Leonard November 27, 2020

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The Devil’s Food Triangle

We have now sailed into the Bermuda Triangle for dieters: Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Here, in the Devil’s Food Triangle, thousands of dieters mys ...( Read More )

By Paula Labrot November 13, 2020

SUGGESTIONS FOR A CHILD’S HOME LIBRARY

A Chocolate Moose for Dinner, written and illustrated by Red Gwynne Magic Little Words by Angèle Delaunois, art by Masnon Gauthier Max’s Words by Kate Ba ...( Read More )

By The Canyon Chronicle November 27, 2020

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Words

In my TK and Kindergarten classes, I introduce a new vocabulary word each day. We call it the “Word of the Day.” It is a way for me to help the children exp ...( Read More )

By Amy Weisberg, M.Ed. November 27, 2020

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A Hopeful Warrior on War & Covid-19

It may be a cliché to say that we are at war with a microscopic bug but the novel coronavirus does put all our lives in jeopardy, and in that sense, is closer ...( Read More )

November 13, 2020

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Providing House Calls to the Unhoused

Medical teams bring old-fashioned house calls to unsheltered homeless communities. Back in the day, when patients couldn’t get to the doctor’s office, th ...( Read More )

By Kait Leonard August 7, 2020

All things connected

Amazon Oligarchy

Convenience is the temptress of Big Tech. Amazon can get you anything you want to buy and deliver it the next day. By providing such convenience, Amazon has built itself i ...( Read More )

By Paula Labrot June 11, 2021

High-Tech Firefighting

By Paula Labrot May 28, 2021

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Human Barcode

By Paula Labrot May 14, 2021

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EMR—Electronic Medical Records

Remember when the wall behind the doctor’s office receptionist was lined with paper charts? Yours was filed there with everyone else’s medical records until ...( Read More )

By Paula Labrot April 30, 2021

A Distributed Web

There is so much craziness going on in the oligarchic tech world right now…so many politically entwined, power hungry, greedy scary, dark behaviors that I cho ...( Read More )

By Paula Labrot February 5, 2021

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Of Monoliths and Mangers

This year it took much longer to put up our Christmas decorations, four days alone to mount the house lights and yard display. Usually, that was something we co ...( Read More )

By Kathie Gibboney January 22, 2021

Decentralization…! Here We Come! On to Web 3.0!

English philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote in the mid-1800s, “The fraud is the pretense that the welfare of ordinary people matters to the elite, when the rea ...( Read More )

By Paula Labrot January 22, 2021

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