Cori Desmond’s killer, 36 year-old Mira Costa High School graduate Tony Lopez Perez, was finally convicted of first degree murder
When Marissa Christiansen was completing her master’s degree in urban planning at USC in 2008, she and five classmates drafted

2011 in was a year of doings and undoings, actions and inaction in the Beach Cities. The Easy Reader each year takes a year-end look at the people and issues that passed through our pages. This year, in addition to the Year in Review compilations for Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach, we singled out 11 stories, including three people whose actions significantly impacted the community, the top issues that commanded each respective city’s attention, and the community leaders who passed away in 2011.
It was the year that almost happened in Hermosa Beach, but didn’t. A potentially bankrupting $700 million lawsuit kept the