July 8, 2022

Vol. 3, No. 13

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THINKING OUT LOUD

THINKING OUT LOUD

Eclectic Topanga

It’s true. The reason we can have a newspaper at all (let alone two) is because there is so much going on in our mountain hamlet and the community is so engaged. Sometim ...(Read More)

Flavia Potenza

By Flavia Potenza

NEWS

Local Composer Wins ‘Best Score’ Award

Composer and filmmaker Matthew Ferraro’s short documentary, The Runner, is beginning to run away with awards and invitations to other festivals. In April, the film was ch ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Topanga Arson Watch Seeking Volunteers

If you have lived in Topanga for 25 years you have lived here a long time. However, you have not lived here long enough to remember the fire of November 1993. T ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

LETTERS

What I Did on the Day We Lost Roe vs. Wade

On June 24, I was going to go to the Westwood Federal building but going down Topanga Canyon Blvd., there where hundreds of cars inching Northbound on the highway, so I turned ...(Read More)

More Flexibility in Mandated Water Restrictions

Howdy! I’m hoping that in the next edition of The Canyon Chronicle, you can update the erroneous drought conservation guidelines that were published in the June 10 edition ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

ARRL Field Day

FREE Wildfire & Disaster NOAA Weather Alert Radios

SAVE THE DATES! August 13 and 16. Free NOAA Weather Alert Radios will be given out on Saturday, August 13, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and on Tuesday, August 16, 5 p.m.–7 p.m. at the ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Topanga HAMS Participate in Radio Field Day

Natural disasters can disrupt the internet and cell phone service, making it nearly impossible to communicate using conventional methods. If the “Bad Thing” ...(Read More)

Annemarie Donkin

By Annemarie Donkin

RUDE INTERRUPTIONS

RUDE INTERRUPTIONS

Constitutionally Infirm

When I was growing up, school taught me t wo principal things about the U.S. Constitution. It was primarily a conservative document, in the sense that it was about constraini ...(Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

TOPANGA BEFORE TODAY

TOPANGA BEFORE TODAY

The Stone House, Part 9: ‘A President of Heart and History’

“When I was 12 years old, I saw a remote house in the hills in Coldwater Canyon and thought, ‘That’s the ideal life!’” Ed O’Neill remembers. He was raised in Los A ...(Read More)

ARTS

The West Side Waltz Plays the Right Notes

Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum presents a spirited revival of The West Side Waltz by Academy Award-winning writer Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond). The play focuses on Mar ...(Read More)

Annemarie Donkin

By Annemarie Donkin

ALL THINGS CONNECTED

ALL THINGS CONNECTED

Real, not Virtual Connections at Camp Cabaret

What a night it was at Camp Cabaret on June 24! Topanga’s soul shone through the performances of campers culminating their two-week musical theater experience in a show th ...(Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

LONG DISTANCE LISTENING PARTY

LONG DISTANCE LISTENING PARTY

Whack as Heck!

There’s a common cliche that says every song is either about love or death. I think the worst thing about love is that it inspires people to want to make music and most peop ...(Read More)

July Events

Emergency Preparedness Meeting In-Person and on ZOOM, Saturday, July 9, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. As extreme drought conditions persist, increasing the risk of wildland fire activ ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

PASSAGES

Richard Newton Sherman, 1937-2021

Richard Newton Sherman, aka “Dick Sherman” died peacefully on December 30, 2021, in Canoga Park with his wife and her bloodhound by his side. He is preceded in death by hi ...(Read More)

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By The Canyon Chronicle

Cory Taylor (1965-2022)

Cory Taylor passed away from complications of cancer on March 4th at the age of 56. An award-winning documentary filmmaker & author, Cory had been a Topanga Canyon resident s ...(Read More)

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By The Canyon Chronicle

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