BHUSD Reviews Strategic Plan for 2024/2025

With the 2024/25 school year underway, Beverly Hills Unified School District staff and educators updated the BHUSD Board of Education on the district’s 2024/25 strategic plan during the Aug. 27 board meeting.

Pickleball arrived in Beverly Hills only four years ago, but as more than a dozen avid players who attended the Aug. 27 Recreation and Parks Commission meeting made clear, the country’s fastest-growing sport is here to stay.

The seventh annual NEXT NIGHT street festival will return to Beverly Hills on Sept. 28. The family-friendly event will take place from 4 p.m.-9 p.m. on South Beverly Drive between Gregory Way and Charleville Boulevard.

Dentists, dancers and donors filled the Saban Theatre on Aug. 23 for a night of music, dancing and fundraising for children in need. The event, modeled after the show “Dancing with the Stars,” included a couple’s dance competition and a live auction, raising over $250,000.

With the sheer volume of new television series premiering throughout the year, it is rare that I will review a subsequent season of an existing series but there are exceptions. “Slow Horses” and “Pachinko” are worthy of that attention. In the case of “Slow Horses,”

Updated accessory dwelling unit (ADU) guidelines could affect construction after the Planning Commission approved an ordinance that will amend the current guidelines in a meeting on Aug. 22. The new regulations would allow more generous square footage for multifamily units and an extra unit on

A group of bereaved Israeli teens whose siblings were killed during Israel’s war in Gaza toured Beverly Hills as part of a trip to the Los Angeles region last weekend, said Vice Mayor Sharona Nazarian, who accompanied the teens on a walking tour with Councilmember

Bring Them Home Now, the Los Angeles chapter of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum that was created with the goal of freeing U.S. citizens who are being held hostage by Hamas, is hosting a rally in Beverly Hills on Sept. 5 from 6-8 p.m.

Depression, eating disorders, drug sales — all of these dangers now rest in the palm of children’s hands, which is why the Beverly Hills community is taking a proactive approach to social media safety

For the last long weekend of the summer, we’re spotlighting Santa Monica, where Ocean Avenue is booming with new hotels and restaurants that are worth the drive west.