The 68th annual Northeast Los Angeles Holiday Parade will take place in Highland Park Sunday, December 2, 2012, commencing at 1 p.m. The parade will move southbound on North Figueroa Street, beginning at Avenue 60 and ending at Avenue 50. This year’s parade theme is “People Helping People”—celebrating ways in which Northeast Los Angeles...
Former 14th District Councilmember Art Snyder, 79, who represented the District for 18 years, died in his sleep today at his home in Huntington Beach. Snyder, a former Marine, was a colorful and polarizing member of the Council, and was both beloved and controversial. His post-council political career was marred somewhat by a 1995...
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News release from the Los Angeles Fire Department: Fumes sickened eighteen workers at a massive Lincoln Heights warehouse operated by a fashion retailer on Sunday morning, sending seventeen to the hospital for non-life threatening illness. The Los Angeles Fire Department was initially summoned at 9:53 AM on November 4, 2012 to investigate one person...
From the office of the Mayor: Mayor and City Council Adopt Good Food Purchasing Pledge to Increase City Purchase of Local, Sustainable, Fair and Healthy Food LOS ANGELES – Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and Los Angeles City Council today adopted The Good Food Purchasing Pledge, a food purchasing policy designed to increase the purchase...
It was a busy day in Sycamore Grove. The Highland Park Heritage Trust had their birthday party, and over by the bandshell, it was the Urban Rancho with animals, kids, families, arts, recycling, gardens, and rock and roll. Arroyo Seco Journal news editor Margaret Arnold was so there.
Several challenges to this past Saturday’s neighborhood council elections have been filed. In Glassell Park, four challenges have been filed alleging that candidate Bradley, who was elected to represent that neighborhood council’s district one, the Drew/Estara and Northwest area, is ineligible, as he actually lives in the hills of district four. The challenges were...
Story and photos by Margaret Arnold Seven-year old Andrew was lying on his back in “triage.” When he had heard that there was going to be a major earthquake practice drill in his neighborhood, he had informed his mother that he was going to participate. The morning of Saturday, October 13, a major...
Capping one of the more contentious local Neighborhood Council elections, a candidate slate formed to preserve the original five Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council (ASNC) communities won handily in voting held Saturday. An opposition group led by Joe Riser lost in every category in which they were opposed. Mr. Riser, a Hermon resident who was...
Northeast area Neighborhood Council elections are this weekend. (Atwater Village and Elysian Valley held theirs last week.) The Arroyo Seco Journal sent a questionnaire to all the listed candidates in the various areas. We’ll be publishing responses as they are received by our office. Here are the candidate statements thus far: (Note: Responses, for...
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