{"id":152189,"date":"2026-01-27T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152189\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:33:21","slug":"long-beach-little-league-lights-fixed-season-and-practices-back-on-the562-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152189\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Little League Lights Fixed, Season and Practices Back On \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img width=\"1210\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-10.37.05\u202fAM-1210x642.jpg\" class=\"attachment-editorial-single-large size-editorial-single-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026 01 27 at 10.37.05\u202fAM\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days after copper thieves hit the Long Beach Little League fields at Stearns Champions Park, there\u2019s good news to report. The City of Long Beach\u2019s parks and recreation department leapt into action on Monday and got nine of the 10 light poles that had been vandalized fixed that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to the City of Long Beach for acting swiftly,\u201d said Long Beach Little League president Doug Wittman. \u201cOur league was able to resume their practices and not skip a beat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wittman said the league has had a great partnership with the city and that everyone was grateful to see everything fixed so quickly. With games approaching in three weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the562.org\/2026\/01\/25\/long-beach-little-league-hit-by-copper-thieves-on-eve-of-season\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the possibility had been looming of delaying practices and trimming games<\/a>. Thanks to the speedy response, kids were back on the field for night practices Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Just a few days after copper thieves hit the Long Beach Little League fields&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-152189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}