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On Feb. 24, Thomas J. Blumenthal, President and CEO of GEARYS Beverly Hills was recognized with an Archbishop’s Award by the Most Reverend Jose H. Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles.

After artificially generated nude images of female students circulated last week at Beverly Vista Middle School (BVMS), the Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) has launched a criminal investigation into the teens involved in making them.

Beverly Hills educators want to know what services local families with young children might find most useful in a proposed early childhood learning center that will eventually be created at Hawthorne Elementary School.

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The first debate in the race for Los Angeles County District Attorney to include all 12 candidates took place on Feb. 8 at the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills, with the whole field squeezed onstage and arranged in order of money raised.

Retailer Saks Fifth Avenue’s women’s store in Beverly Hills has relocated from the Wilshire Boulevard address it had occupied since 1938 to a new storefront less than 200 feet down the street. 

This week, billions of people from every corner of the world, including right here in Beverly Hills, will turn a page and begin writing a new chapter.

The public is invited to attend the Beverly Hills Active Adult Club’s City Council Candidates Forum on Feb. 9 from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. at Roxbury Park Community Center, 471 South Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. 

The city is looking for new ways to attract young families and Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) is looking for new ways to use Hawthorne Elementary School.

The month of February is action-packed with celebratory opportunities that include the Lunar New Year, Valentine’s Day and the Presidents Day long weekend, plus it is a Leap Year, so we will gain an extra day.

Reports of a man with a gun on a balcony at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills led to a standoff with police on Feb. 1, and temporary street closures on Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards before he eventually surrendered.