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09/15/2026

🍾 Championship-bound Coast drive Roadsters off track in winner-take-all Game 3 - https://mailchi.mp/d841e08da2cb/mon-sep14newsletter-17674710

09/14/2026

The Long Beach Coast front office made a splash ahead of their inaugural season, constructing a roster good enough to claim the Pioneer Baseball League’s (PBL) first half pennant.

And if Saturday night’s champagne-filled celebrations at Blair Field are any proof, the Coast have continued to make a splash and then some.

The Coast’s 6-3 win over the Modesto Roadsters in Game 3 advanced them to the PBL Championship Series, marking the third time an expansion team has reached the finals in the MLB Partner League era.

✍️: Joshua Min
📸: Samuel Chacko

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The Coast’s 6-3 win over the Modesto Roadsters in Game 3 advanced them to the PBL Championship Series, marking the third time an expansion team has reached the finals in the MLB Partner League era.

09/14/2026

Picture a place where children of all abilities can run around freely, surrounded by colorful walls, inspirational murals, books, a variety of toys and a staff trained to help them grow.

Kadiant ABA, an autism and applied behavior analysis center near Bixby Knolls (4201 N. Long Beach Blvd., Suite 101), offers all of that and more, with its new center.

✍️ & 📸: Samuel Chacko

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Picture a place where children of all abilities can run around freely, surrounded by colorful walls, inspirational murals,…

09/13/2026

It’s 2001 and 16-year-old Charles Hakopian gets ready for school like any other day. He grabs a donut, picks up his girlfriend and heads to high school.

“I’m standing in the room, got the TV on, it cuts out, I see the footage and I’m just in shock,” Hakopian said. What he saw was the South Tower of the World Trade Center getting hit on the news.

Hakopian, LBFD firefighter Phil Hanlen, and close to 100 attendees came together Saturday at the Long Beach World Trade Center to honor the 343 firefighters and 2,977 victims who lost their lives to the 9/11 attacks.

✍️ & 📸: Samuel Chacko

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Hakopian, now the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) captain for Fire Station 1, shared personal memories with attendees at the city’s first-ever 9/11 memorial stair climb Saturday morning.

09/13/2026

Environmental groups are ringing the alarm on a federal review they say signals a “hostile federal takeover” of the California Coastal Commission (CCC).

The CCC was formed in 1972 with the aim of “protecting open space, public beach access, agricultural lands and scenic views while ensuring that new development is designed to avoid harmful impacts to coast and ocean habitats,” according to the commission’s website. The commission gives its recommendations and suggestions on coastline and ocean-impacted projects, even federally-approved projects.

While the CCC does not have voting or veto power over these projects, it can request items like environmental mitigations, tribal consultations and public hearings.

✍️: Samantha Diaz
📸: Richard H. Grant

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Environmental groups are ringing the alarm on a federal review they say signals a “hostile federal takeover” of the California Coastal Commission (CCC).

09/12/2026

Strong pitching continues to define the playoff series between the Long Beach Coast and Modesto Roadsters. This time it was Modesto who stifled Long Beach’s offense, winning 4-1 Friday night to force a winner-take-all Game 3 in the first round of the Pioneer Baseball League playoffs.

✍️ Joshua Min
📸: Samuel Chacko

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Strong pitching continues to define the playoff series between the Long Beach Coast and Modesto Roadsters. This time it was Modesto who stifled Long Beach’s offense, winning 4-1 to force a winner-take-all Game 3 in the first round of the Pioneer Baseball League playoffs.

09/12/2026

📰 New Kadiant ABA center offers extra space and amenities for autism therapy - https://mailchi.mp/d6e0e74c4822/fri-sep11newsletter-17674694

09/11/2026

The impacts of Hurricane Marie crashed onto Long Beach’s doorstep, with waves crashing relentlessly onto an already dilapidated Peninsula boardwalk and forcing the evacuation of roughly 20 homes from Monday to Wednesday.

The decades-old boardwalk built in the 1920s has long needed repairs. The City had plans to replace the wooden walkway, spanning from 55th to 69th Place at Seaside Way, with resistant composite materials in 2025. However, Third District Councilmember Kristina Duggan told the Signal Tribune in January that the $2 million project was on hold due to a lack of available funding.

Chunks of that boardwalk were severely compromised over the course of the week, as waves reaching over six feet high easily overcame reinforced sand berms and damaged the wooden walkway, as well as home foundations and even concrete.

✍️: Samantha Diaz
✍️ & 📸: Samuel Chacko

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The impacts of Hurricane Marie crashed onto Long Beach’s doorstep, with waves crashing relentlessly onto an already dilapidated Peninsula boardwalk

09/11/2026

The Long Beach Coast came out victorious 5-1 in Game 1 of the Pioneer Baseball League (PBL) playoffs against a familiar foe in the Modesto Roadsters at Blair Field Thursday night.

After losing their last matchup against the Roadsters on Monday, the Coast bounced back by starting their first-round playoff series with a 1-0 lead.

Nick Bautista took the mound to start the Coast’s first-ever playoff game and delivered 6 ⅓ innings, seven strikeouts and only one earned run allowed. Bautista treated the start by preparing for it like any other game, but the experience of starting a playoff game was amazing, he said.

✍️ Joshua Min
📸: Samuel Chacko

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The Long Beach Coast came out victorious 5-1 in Game 1 of the Pioneer Baseball League (PBL) playoffs against a familiar foe in the Modesto Roadsters at Blair Field Thursday night.

09/11/2026

Twenty-five years removed from the most infamous terrorist attacks in U.S. history, the legacy of 9/11 continues to reverberate from coast to coast and around the globe.

Over 2,800 miles from New York City’s Ground Zero, Long Beach, like countless other American cities and communities impacted by that tragic day, annually pays tribute to the 2,977 lives lost in the attacks.

But on a daily basis, one enduring local reminder of 9/11 is the Unity Monument, located near the apex of Signal Hill at 2271 Temple Ave. Patrick Vogel, the creator of the monument, recalls watching the attacks unfold live on television in the early morning on the West Coast and thinking, “this could have happened anywhere.”

✍️: Ryan Hardison
📸: Richard H. Grant

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On a daily basis, one enduring local reminder of 9/11 is the Unity Monument, located near the apex of Signal Hill at 2271 Temple Ave.