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December 22, 2023
Lights in the Dark
The Canyon Chronicle pages have been full of children of late. What a rich education they receive at Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS). Its parents, teachers and kids h
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By Flavia Potenza
November 24, 2023
Surviving in Suburbia… The Move, Part 2
While not exactly homeless, almost as soon as I was heartily welcomed in the new place, I was, putting it kindly, asked, to leave. What to do…? When the po
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By Flavia Potenza
November 10, 2023
Final Farewells
As if global chaos, murder and heartbreak weren’t enough, all the while seeping into our bucolic little village and casting a pall over many of us, the recent
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By Flavia Potenza
October 27, 2023
I love Wikipedia! And Google!
October 27, 2023 “The Halloween holiday has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (a Gaelic word pronounced “SAH-winâ€), a pagan religious
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By Flavia Potenza
October 13, 2023
Brags & Blessings
October 13, 2023 While we are acutely aware of Global chaos—the surprise attack on Israel, now called the Israel-Hamas war; earthquakes in Afghanistan, at
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By Flavia Potenza
September 29, 2023
TRANSITIONS
I love my job but even more so when a heartwarming story like the one in the photo above and on the facing pa ge 3 surprises us. It really is our reason for bei
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By Flavia Potenza
September 15, 2023
Why Only 8 Pages?
Does this print edition of The Canyon Chronicle feel a little light in your hands? Seem a bit skimpy on content online? That’s because it is a 50% cut-back o
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August 18, 2023
Planning Ahead… Or Not
When you read the newspaper, do you ever wonder why that photo or that article is on that page? Of course not! You read it for the real estate ads and the cart
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By Flavia Potenza
September 1, 2023
Spirits and Spirituality on Stage
The Lifespan of a Fact. The Topanga Actors Company (TAC) opens the 2023 fall season of three plays with a staged reading of the Broadway hit, The Lifespan of a
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September 1, 2023
Overlapping Puzzles
As summer ends and fall begins, mid-August puts us on multi-tracks when summer activities and late-summer vacations wind down and school revs up. Heat waves tel
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August 4, 2023
The Dog Days of Summer
Dog Days bright and clear Indicate a happy year; But when accompanied by rain, For better times, our hopes are vain. Topangans love their dogs! They also
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By Flavia Potenza
July 21, 2023
Celebrating the Magic
“Good times, bum times, we’ve seen them all, but we’re here!†Anyone who lives in Topanga for any period of time finds it a mysteriously magical place.
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By Flavia Potenza
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Nurturing Nature
The question of ground squirrels came up the other day talking to my neighbor, Allison, who huffed, rolled her eyes and glanced at her house. The critters are k
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Bad Days, Good Days, Mostly Good
Hollyhocks (Alcea rosea). What a way to start the summer. Who knew or even remembers this old-fashioned, actually ancient flower? It’s thought to have origina
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By Flavia Potenza
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Put Your Hands Together...
I’m calling this our “Comic Book†edition because it’s loaded with picww tures telling the stories of Topanga Days 2023. We are also celebrating the 50-
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By Flavia Potenza
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The Many Gifts of…
Sometimes production week comes easily and sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t and the Muse has gone on vacation and nothing springs to mind to fill bl
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By Flavia Potenza
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A Lot of Existential ‘Whys’A Lot of Existential ‘Whys’
Americans killing Americans? Mass murder in our streets? Children gunned down in schools? Unbridled hate spewing forth on every line of communication 24/7? Why
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By Flavia Potenza
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Can’t Help but Smile
This may be one of the happiest issues of The Canyon Chronicle with events popping up like popcorn in a pot, the pot being, of course, Topanga. We gave a lot
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By Flavia Potenza
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The Spirit that Drives Us
It’s not just a Topanga thing, but a human calling to step into the breach when times are hard or something is wrong. We, here, probably have more chances to
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By Flavia Potenza
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Spirit Abounds
I’ve been exploring my religious roots of late. The Topanga Christian Fellowship Church is conveniently close, just two miles down the road, and the Chabad of
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By Flavia Potenza
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The Greening of Topanga
Some folks are celebratin’ “the Wearin’ of the Green,†but here in Topanga, Irish or not, we’re all “Livin’ in the Green†with the rains turning
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By Flavia Potenza
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Invisibility
One of the jobs I had when I started to make my way in L.A. was as an “assistant†in one of Hollywood’s literary agencies. Occasionally, I was asked to re
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By Flavia Potenza
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Transitions
My little guy, Tippy, a Parti Poodle, crossed the Rainbow Bridge on Thursday, January 9, after a long bout of metastatic cancer with ugly tumors erupting that w
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By Flavia Potenza
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January 2023 Has Been a Kick in the Pants
Has anyone else had problems easing into 2023? It better get better than this month was. Kathie Gibboney lets us know from her Corner of the Canyon that youâ
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By Flavia Potenza
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Welcome 2023!
Months earlier, as we were building the lineup for the first issue of 2023, we had hope and some indication that we’d get rain this winter but not quite like
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By Paula Labrot
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Making a List…
Last issue we observed, with reverence, the spirit of the holiday season. Production week rolled around and my list for the lineup was pretty skimpy. No cover,
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By Flavia Potenza
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It’s Official! The Winter Holidays are Upon Us!
Nothing could have been more festive than this year’s Sages Holiday Dinner to officially begin the many ways for us to celebrate the season of light and joy.
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
Off-the-Wall Thanksgiving
National Day Calendar (NDC), where we often go for details about historic national days, surprised us this time with National Absurdity Day (November 20). I
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By The Canyon Chronicle
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Cinder Finds A Home
The adorable story of Cinder, the kitten whose arrival we published in our “Thinking Out Loud†Halloween montage (“Halloween on Bonnell Drive,†The Cany
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
Halloween on Bonnell Drive
Kris Lilliedahl (left) never thought that he would be on call every two or four hours feeding a newborn kitten, but here he was on Halloween not handing out tre
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By Flavia Potenza
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Daylight Saving Time Ends Nov. 6, 2022
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour from standard time during the summer months (the second Sunday of March) and b
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What’s Happening with Our Post Office? I am a Topanga resident for 45 years and have a mail order business. I ship almost daily at our local post office and I
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By The Canyon Chronicle
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Frogs in a Political Pot of Hot Water
Hey, Mama Frog, look here! This looks like a great place to raise our pollywogs.†“Yes, dear, but look over there. It looks like the neighbors are trying t
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By Flavia Potenza
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To Every Thing There is a Season
...A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted… (Ecclesiastes 3, King James Version) In 2020, somebody thought it was time to pluck up
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
Of Life and Labor
Our cover and center pages honor the passing of Henry Smith, Jr., Beloved Elder of the Lac Court Oreilles Band of Ojibwe, born into the Bear Clan at dawn on Jun
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
Butterflies & Dogs. Life is Good!
That’s pretty much what this edition of The Canyon Chronicle is about, except for Tom Cat’s point of view (above). Butterflies because Butterfly Day at t
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
A Happy Memorial Full of Laughter
Dick Sherman’s memorial on Sunday July 24, was carefully planned, a labor of love especially for Serena Wiley, who went to work for him when she was 18, and J
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
FIRE! FIRE! THIS IS A MANDATORY EVACUATION!
What would you do if you had five minutes to pack up and get out of the canyon? Every year around this time, The Canyon Chronicle publishes the voices of our
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By Flavia Potenza
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 engag
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By Flavia Potenza
The Art of Receiving
Lunch, dinner, chicken soup, groceries, dog food, cat food, laundry, dog walking, errands, trips to the doctor, advocates who know how to work the medical syste
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
Wishing that the week that was...wasn’t... but then again...
A tree falls, a beloved friend dies, you total your car. Sadness, grief, and a body slam, all in a close time frame. The 300-year-old oak tree falling was sad t
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By Flavia Potenza
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Topanga’s Rich History
Art collector John Brewer’s Zoom presentation for the Topanga Historical Society (THS) on May 18, tapped into an obscure gem of Topanga’s history. Were it n
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
Fun, Frolic and Intimations of 2022 Political Season
Mothers Day has come and gone but we can’t help but mention the annual spectacle that is Lexi Pearl’s MOMentum Place. To watch her warm up the audience stru
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
The Merry Month of May
Remember the May Day tradition of leaving baskets of flowers on neighbors’ porches? I propose reviving the May Basket and maybe celebrating some of the monthâ
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By Kait Leonard
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APRIL FOOL LETTERS!
Starbucks and the Topanga Library! What fool endorsed this one? Who is getting paid off? I hope we Topangans get to vote on this crap!!! –Joe Futterer
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By Flavia Potenza
Thinking Out Loud
Better to Light a Candle
The last time The Canyon Chronicle referred to the adage, “Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness,†was during the dark days of the COVID-19 pa
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By Flavia Potenza
Thinking Out Loud
‘When Will They Ever Learn…?’
War is not the answer. Tonight as I write this, the sixth day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine dawns and promises to worsen before it gets better (please, Go
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By The Canyon Chronicle
Thinking Out Loud
Caught in the Web of the Unpredictable COVID
Ugh! Despite two vaxxes and a booster, I think a tribe of variants has found its personal petri dish in my body. I say a tribe because it feels like a rolling
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By Flavia Potenza
THINKING OUT LOUD
Let’s Create Sweet Memories for 2022
Let’s Create Sweet Memories for 2022 What sort of year do you think we’ll be looking at this time next year? It’s bound to be a rowdy year with conten
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By Flavia Potenza
Thinking Out Loud
Right as Rain
Our stalwart Fernwood Rain reporter, Eric Fitzgerald is happy to be back in the game again with this photo he captured in Dix Canyon. “You should have seen Ow
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By Flavia Potenza
Thinking Out Loud
Happy Christmas and Good Tidings to All for 2022!
The Canyon Chronicle sends a heartfelt thank you to the Topanga community for seeing it through its infancy and wherever we are on the growth scale a year and a
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By Flavia Potenza
Thinking Out Loud
Arthur Nissman—1939-2021
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of th
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By Flavia Potenza
Thinking Out Loud
The Sacrifice of Thankfulness
It's nice having a little country church just a couple of miles down the road. It's also nice that the Chabad of Topanga is just up the street and I can walk th
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By Flavia Potenza
Thinking Out Loud
Veterans’ Day—A Time to Honor the Warriors, Not War
Yesterday was Veterans Day, a day to honor those who went to war because their country called. On page 5, we have a heartwarming report on the community effor
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By Flavia Potenza
Thinking Out Loud
Finding Home
It’s been almost three months since the U.S. withdrew troops from Afghanistan amidst chaos and criticism. It has fallen out of the 24-hour news cycle but pres
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By Flavia Potenza
Responsibility
After days of observing and reliving the horrors of 9-11 20 years later, I vividly recall seeing the smoke billowing out of the north side of the North Tower af
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By Flavia Potenza
Thinking Out Loud
Remembering Mary
The day seemed full of itself, a fiesta of California sunshine and gentle breezes that set the scene for Mary Colvig’s memorial on Saturday, September 25, at
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By Flavia Potenza
Investing in Loss
Topanga has lost so many good souls this year. So has the country with more than half a million deaths from COVID-19. To be precise, as of this writing it was 6
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By Flavia Potenza
Ups & Downs
Since our last issue, we’ve had some excitement, some good, some not so much. For those who follow those things, space flight took off—Sir Richard Branso
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By Flavia Potenza
Hypervigilance
Hypervigilance. A state where you are constantly scanning your environment for any signs of danger. The pit bull running in and out of traffic on Topanga Can
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By Flavia Potenza
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Monday, June 21, was the solstice, the first day of summer, and Topanga opened its doors to 44 bands and musicians throughout the canyon from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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By Flavia Potenza
Night Blooming Cereus and the Computer
The brilliant pink Night Blooming Cereus blossomed the day my computer crashed. This plant, has moved and lived with me for a long time and I never bothere
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By Flavia Potenza
There Are Wars and There Are Wars
Welcome to Memorial Day weekend where, with full hearts we pause to honor and remember those who have fallen in the Great Wars, as well as those who fought and
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By Flavia Potenza
Escape to the Farm
As long as I’ve lived in Topanga (45 years) and as much as I love it and the community it inspires, once I was fully vaccinated and received an invitation to
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By Flavia Potenza
Families and Friends
This is the last, but not least of our month-long poetry slam, to which we’ve dedicated three pages. The response from our local poets was so prolific that we
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By Flavia Potenza
Earth Day
Topanga celebrates Earth Day year-round, don’t we! It is nice, and likely necessary that we get a jolt once a year to take stock of how we’re doing. The ear
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By Flavia Potenza
Stating the Obvious and the Marvelous Mundane
Spring came in hot on the heels of autumn, stepping over winter as if it never happened, and teased us with early blooms and glorious days. Winter did give us a
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By Flavia Potenza
COVID-19 Diary
In Praise of… Sometimes, it feels right to give over this editorial space to community voices because someone said, better than I ever could, what needs to b
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Life Goes On
Residents on Bonnell Drive are fortunate to have a little park with its own weather. Nature is a bit off kilter these days, like us. It drives the seasons in it
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By Flavia Potenza
Mary Colvig 1949-2021
A leading light in Topanga has gone out. Mary Colvig passed on January 26, 2021, of cancer. Hers was a gentle but steadfast light that brought a heart of gold
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By Flavia Potenza
Harbingers of Spring
When the daffodils along my neighbor’s fence popped out overnight, It suddenly changed everything that is changing anyway. It feels as if the COVID cloud is l
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By Flavia Potenza
Hate and Hope
It seems that the best and worst of America, is right here, in our face, so close we can’t turn away from staring at the carnage. If your equilibrium feels
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By The Canyon Chronicle
Hate and Hope
It seems that the best and worst of America, is right here, in our face, so close we can’t turn away from staring at the carnage. If your equilibrium feels a
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By The Canyon Chronicle
Year-End Giving TWC
Topanga Women’s Circle’s (TWC) current Challenge Grant 2020 campaign is more important than ever and they are counting on the generosity of those who suppor
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By The Canyon Chronicle
Joy in the Shadow of the Virus
Days before Governor Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order in response to the dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases in California, I admit I ventured out of my house o
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By Flavia Potenza
Building a House
Topanga Elementary Charter School became part of the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1962, when it made some changes to conform with the larger district,
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By Amy Weisberg, M.Ed.
At 91, Professor Charles Quigley Celebrates with a Hike
Early morning hikers in Topanga State Pa rk at Trippet Ranch probably have met Chuck Quigley on the East Topanga Fire Road. Quigley starts every day with a hike
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How I Became A Volunteer
As an unincorporated mountain community, in order to meet its needs where the County can’t or doesn’t, Topanga has always been a community of volunteers. Th
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Everyday Hugs
What people yearn for the most in this extended lockdown, they say, are hugs, so here are some Everyday Hugs that might prompt you to find your own. One Ever
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By Flavia Potenza
‘From the Heart of a Horsewoman’ by Lynnea Paxton-Honn
In the 1960s, a group of girls in Lower Topanga roamed the land on horseback, riding in the creek, on the beach, and all over Sunset Mesa before houses were bui
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At 91, Professor Charles Quigley Celebrates with a Hike
Early morning hikers in Topanga State Park at Trippet Ranch probably have met Chuck Quigley on the East Topanga Fire Road. Quigley starts every day with a hike
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By
How I Became A Volunteer
As an unincorporated mountain community, in order to meet its needs where the County can’t or doesn’t, Topanga has always been a community of volunteers. Th
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Thinking Out Loud
This is Who We Are
Saturday, November 7, Topangans awoke to a light rain that brought in a cold snap and a Double Rainbow (above) that Eric Fitzgerald captured from his deck at ab
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By The Canyon Chronicle
11-8-20
The day after Biden’s president-elect speech a certain tension, held unknowingly, in my body, had relaxed. The effort of plugging a hole in the dike was
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