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Long Beach #Health and Human Services has received an $8 million #grant to assist individuals arrested, charged or convicted with nonviolent offenses through the creation of the #LongBeach Reentry Service and Diversion Program. A man last known to be in #LongBeach has been #missing for over seven years. Business improvement groups across #LongBeach received their one-time funding allocations for the next year at Tuesday’s city council meeting. To curb the rapid rise of fentanyl-related death rates in #LongBeach, the City is studying the possibility of providing free fentanyl testing kits to residents. If you’ve ever seen the iconic ‘smile now, cry later’ symbol, with grinning and crying masks side-by-side, you have Freddy Negrete to thank. And if you don’t know who that is, that’s exactly what the Tattoo Heritage Project is trying to change — specifically one of its newest board members, Carlos Torres. The City of #LongBeach, in partnership with the Arts Council for Long Beach, is holding its annual Youth Art Contest, a competition designed to inspire young residents from the first through eighth grades to capture their view of the city through #artwork and #photography.

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