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12/27/2025

December 26, 2025 Los Cerritos Community News Digital Edition

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12/26/2025

By Cerritos Mayor Frank Aurelio Yokoyama The strength of our community is defined by our people. When the City of Cerritos partners with our residents and businesses to listen, learn, and share kno…

12/24/2025

By Loren Kopff December 24, 2025 GARDEN GROVE-Just when the Whitney High boys basketball team was starting to turn the page and forget about its 1-6 and 2-8 start to the season and get to half a do…

12/24/2025

Pico Rivera Ends Redevelopment Era, Eliminates $1 Million Annual Drain, Adds $800K Annually in Property Taxes

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 23, 2025 The City of Pico Rivera has formally completed the dissolution of its former Redevelopment Agency Successor Agency, a years-long process that city officials say will permanently relieve pressure on the city’s General Fund and improve long-term financial stability. The final action was approved by the Los Angeles County Oversight Board on December 18, closing out a statutory process that began after the state dissolved local redevelopment agencies more than a decade ago....

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 23, 2025 The City of Pico Rivera has formally completed the dissolution of its former Redevelopment Agency Successor Agency, a years-long process that ci…

12/24/2025

Cerritos College reached out to LCCN following federal arrests, then refused to clarify questions about a reported affiliation tied to a New Year’s Eve bomb plot.

12/23/2025

By Loren Kopff Publisher | Follow X December 23, 2025 Emily Gonzalez (fourth from the left), Destiny Elmore, Jael Arreguin and Nayeli Tamayo, plus junior Jordin Shaw ( #2) are flanked by this season…

12/23/2025

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 23, 2025 Each season, there seems to be a different storyline when Cerritos High and Gahr High face each other in their annual December city tussle. The …

12/22/2025

Why People Are Really Leaving Los Angeles

Leaving LA doesn’t usually happen with some big, dramatic announcement. It creeps up on you. First it’s just little annoyances that pile up. Then you’re bone-tired all the time. And eventually, you’re sitting at the kitchen table having a very real conversation about moving. People still genuinely love a lot about the city—the perfect weather, the incredible food, that buzz in the air where anything feels possible....

Leaving LA doesn’t usually happen with some big, dramatic announcement. It creeps up on you. First it’s just little annoyances that pile up. Then you’re bone-tired all the time. And eventually, you…

12/22/2025

G.C. 1099: The Legal Case for Vacating Juan Garza’s Central Basin Seat - https://mailchi.mp/146e1a474ebe/dirty-water-red-flags-juan-garzas-overlapping-roles-and-legal-issues-5263125

12/22/2025

Dirty Water: How Juan Garza’s JPA Contract Vacated His Central Basin Water Seat - https://mailchi.mp/cerritosnews/dirty-water-red-flags-juan-garzas-overlapping-roles-and-legal-issues-5263124

12/20/2025

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 19, 2025 Two weeks ago, Los Cerritos Community News launched High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags, a multi-part investigative series revealing that f…

12/20/2025

December 19, 2025 By Brian Hews Last week, Los Cerritos Community News reported extensively on the growing water and sewer infrastructure crisis facing Cerritos, detailing decades of deferred maint…