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CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION 9 FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Valley Christian’s defense shines in shutout win, Crusaders to play for division championship

CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION 9 FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Valley Christian’s defense shines in shutout win, Crusaders to play for division championship

    By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on Twitter   With the offenses of the Valley Christian High and Notre Dame (Riverside) High football teams struggling mightily, the longtime adage of…

Second to the Last to Leave: USS Arizona Survivor & La Mirada Resident Lauren Bruner’s Story

Second to the  Last to Leave: USS Arizona Survivor & La Mirada Resident  Lauren Bruner’s Story

    By Tammye McDuff and Brian Hews Most of us know the day, December 7, 1941, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt put it, “a date which will live in…

2016-2017 GIRLS BASKETBALL PREVIEW: Quartet of area teams aim to stay near the top of respective leagues

2016-2017 GIRLS BASKETBALL PREVIEW: Quartet of area teams aim to stay near the top of respective leagues

    By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on Twitter   Unless there is a sudden turn of events from new players to their respective varsity basketball teams, the 2016-2017 girls season…

Memorial Dedication for Fallen Downey Police Officer Ricardo ‘Ricky’ Galvez

Memorial Dedication for Fallen Downey Police Officer Ricardo ‘Ricky’ Galvez

By Tammye McDuff “On November 18, 2015, Officer Ricardo Galvez parked his vehicle in the department’s west parking lot as he returned from training as a canine agitator. Sitting in…

Lynwood City Council Attempting to Circumvent Local Billboard Ordinance

Lynwood City Council Attempting to Circumvent Local Billboard Ordinance

  By Brian Hews Hews Media Group-Community News has learned that the Lynwood City Council will, at tonight’s regular council meeting, attempt to lift the city’s moratorium on billboards, allowing…

THE GARDENS CASINO IN HAWAIIAN GARDENS OFFERS EXTENSIVE NEW SUNDAY BRUNCH

THE GARDENS CASINO IN HAWAIIAN GARDENS OFFERS EXTENSIVE NEW SUNDAY BRUNCH

    By Brian Hews The Gardens Casino recently completed a $90 million renovation to its facility in Hawaiian Gardens . The project, which began in March of 2014, spotlights…

Greg Palast: How The Election Was Stolen

Greg Palast: How The Election Was Stolen

The Election was Stolen – Here’s How…  Friday, November 11, 2016 Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives. Starting in 2013 –…

Cerritos Deputy Celebrates 25 Years of Service

Cerritos Deputy Celebrates 25 Years of Service

FRIENDS OF THE CERRITOS LIBRARY HONORED WITH CITY PROCLAMATION

FRIENDS OF THE CERRITOS LIBRARY  HONORED WITH CITY PROCLAMATION

Staff Report Cerritos Mayor George Ray recently presented a proclamation to the Friends of the Cerritos Library honoring the organization for its outstanding contributions and proclaiming October 16-22, 2016 as…

CERRITOS BUDGET SURVEY: RESOUNDING NO ON SALES TAX INCREASE

CERRITOS BUDGET SURVEY: RESOUNDING NO ON SALES TAX INCREASE

But over 98% of the residents indicated the Sheriff’s Station was important/very important. By Brian Hews Over 1,000 Cerritos residents and 53 business owners responded to the City’s recent Community…

SUPERVISORIAL CANDIDATE FORUM AT CERRITOS LIBRARY

SUPERVISORIAL CANDIDATE FORUM AT CERRITOS LIBRARY

  By Larry Caballero The election for the Los Angeles County Supervisorial 4th District seat may be a non-partisan one, but there is no doubt that attendees who packed the…

Cerritos Regional Chamber’s Taste of the Region

Cerritos Regional Chamber’s Taste of the Region

  By Tammye McDuff The Cerritos Regional Chamber of Commerce really hit it out of the ball park this time. The Chamber held their Annual Taste of the Region at…

BELLFLOWER HOLDS CITY’S FIRST ANNUAL ART WALK

BELLFLOWER HOLDS CITY’S  FIRST ANNUAL ART WALK

By Tammye McDuff The City of Bellflower held their first of three downtown art walks this past Saturday, October 8th.  For the first annual event, 15 stores, restaurants and businesses…

Don Knabe Wellness Center Opens at Rancho Los Amigos

Don Knabe Wellness Center Opens at  Rancho Los Amigos

By Tammye McDuff The long awaited grand opening of the Rancho Los Amigos Rehabilitation Center newest addition, The Don Knabe Wellness Center, officially opened Wednesday, October 12.   The Center…

HMG-CN EXCLUSIVE: City of Montebello Handed Out $500,000 in No-Bid Contracts While Fabricating Competing Bids From Sham Companies

HMG-CN EXCLUSIVE: City of Montebello Handed Out $500,000 in No-Bid Contracts While Fabricating Competing Bids From Sham Companies

  By Brian Hews A Hews Media Group-Community News investigation has found that the City of Montebello has paid almost $500,000 from 2013 to 2016 to an obscure construction company,…

Hews Media Group-Community News Oct. 14, 2016 Front Page Preview

Hews Media Group-Community News Oct. 14, 2016 Front Page Preview

Cerritos High School’s ‘Rocketeers’ Compete Internationally

Cerritos High School’s ‘Rocketeers’ Compete Internationally

On September 24th, the 10 member Rocketeers from Cerritos High School went to Washington, DC for the Mars Society Convention to be part of the International Gemini Mars Design Competition. …

HAWAIIAN GARDENS’ THIRD ANNUAL 3K FUN RUN

HAWAIIAN GARDENS’ THIRD ANNUAL 3K FUN RUN

    By Tammye McDuff Hawaiian Gardens held their third Annual 3K Fun Run this past Saturdayo in continued support of a healthier more active lifestyle for residents and the…

CERRITOS BUDGET DEFICIT: Residents Offer Ideas, Council Postpones Decision on Sales Tax

CERRITOS BUDGET DEFICIT: Residents Offer Ideas, Council Postpones Decision on Sales Tax

By Brian Hews The Cerritos City Council once again held a public meeting to address the city’s budget deficit, proposed budget cuts, and placing a one percent sales tax on…

SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTIST AND 2016 EMMY NOMINEE VISITS ARTESIA HIGH SCHOOL

SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTIST AND 2016 EMMY  NOMINEE VISITS ARTESIA HIGH SCHOOL

  By Tammye McDuff and Brian Hews Artesia High teacher Brian Rodriguez has run the Video Production Program Department at Artesia High School for the past two years. “I had…