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Parents in Malibu and Santa Monica are getting a 35 page parents guide to distance learning from the local schools …. and now they have two new words to use in their homes. Synchronous and asynchronous. Those are what we used to call classroom time … and homework. But the pandemic has changed everything about […]

From F-M 99.1 … KBUU News … here are the Wednesday Headlines: = L A County improves … Ventura County is terrible shape … on Coronavirus test results. = Malibus air quality is awful … two fires inland sending smoke into our air. = A small brusher is put out yesterday above La Costa Beach. […]

= Car over a cliff on Rambla Pacifico. Three people hospitalized. = A little good news in Los Angeles County … deaths and hospitalizations are settling down. = A new brushfire 30 miles north of Malibu may cause smog. = Malibu is funneling some federal dollars to local businesses … in a lottery. = And […]

Malibu High School will be very different this fall … even different from last spring. The school … like others in the U-S .. lurched into distance learning with very little preparation. And in the eyes of some parents … it was a disaster. Principal Patrick Miller told parents on Friday that the Spring model […]

Malibu’s city clerk has rejected the nominating petitions from Alia Ollikainen … for being one name short of the required 20 names of valid registered voters. Ollikainen has demanded that the city clerk reverse the decision … and put her name in the ballot. The want-to-be candidate says she will see what City Hall’s response […]

One person is dead … following a car crash and small brush fire in Malibu Canyon last night. It was the second fire of the day in Malibu Canyon. The fatality and small fire were discovered a few minutes before 9 … just across from the Hughes Research Lab near the Malibu city limit. It […]

From F-M 99.1 … KBUU News … the Monday Headlines: = A third person in Malibu dies of COVID-19. = A car over the side … a fire … and a fatality in Malibu Canyon last night . = The “Rockpool” brushfire is essentially out at 75 acres. = RV parking ban to be discussed […]

One candidate has failed to make the Malibu city council ballot, after her nominating petition came up with 19 valid voters on it, instead of the required 20. Alia Ollinkainen, a Malibu teacher, had six names rejected because they were not currently registered voters, she said last night in a Facebook posting. She was the […]

Compton and Claremont are enforcing mask rules now … with fines for not wearing masks in public. Malibu is moving slowly and cautiously towards a mask ordinance. Despite the fact that cities all around Malibu have enacted fines for failure to wear a mask in public. … Malibu is inching towards such an ordinance with […]

Parents at the four Malibu public schools have together raised 38 thousand dollars for student enrichment programs … leaving a huge gap that has been partially filled in by the Malibu Foundation. The latest data from the school district shows that the Foundation will make a one-time donation of 160 thousand dollars to the Malibu […]