Week in Review: Nominees for ‘Person of the Year,’ Flight Schools Promise Less Noise, and New School West preschool.

Here are our top five stories for the week of Dec.  18 -24.

1. Mar Vista residents Read the nominations and vote in our online poll. We’ll select a winner next week and profile him or her in the New Year.
2. In an effort to appease Santa Monica Airport neighbors and critics, who have organized to fight airport noise and pollution, t during winter evening hours.
3. Patch profiled this week. The co-constructivist preschool is hard to get into it, but many neighborhood parents are eager to enroll their children in this Reggio-inspired neighborhood gem. 
4. Local schools are beginning to see the results of a Wasserman Foundation grant designed to encourage parent and community giving to public education. Patch talked to teachers about their projects and the process in .
5. Scott Martin, a landscape architect started the ‘Living Christmas Tree Co.” to bring an environmental ethic to the annual ritual of buying a cut Christmas tree. His company’s trees are potted and he rents them out for the season. The business is catching on with area residents who want a tree without the green guilt. 

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