Alpha Structural, Inc., the leading structural engineering and construction firm in Los Angeles, just reached its 30th year in business serving homeowners and commercial property owners alike. Founder and CEO Dave Tourjé grew up in Eagle Rock resident from a young age until late adolescence, when he moved to Mount Washington. He attended Eagle Rock High […]
Continue ReadingBy Sebastian Ashcraft Minimalism is an art movement founded on the notion that “less is more.” The art created is very simplistic, using the fewest elements. Minimalism as a lifestyle, or simple living, applies the same principle of “less is more” in one’s own life through various practices. “Less,” to the minimalist, is specifically less […]
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The world has changed a lot over the last couple years, but one thing remains the same—a college education is the fastest way to higher wages, lower unemployment, and greater fulfillment. Glendale Community College has made it simpler than ever to succeed at college. To read more about attending Glendale Community College click the image of the happy students!
Continue ReadingA public meeting on proposals to improve Eagle Rock Boulevard, scheduled for Dec. 15, has been delayed until February. The proposals are part of “Rock the Boulevard,” an improvement effort first launched in 2018. The meeting delay came after Councilmember Kevin de Leon did not agree to a request from Richard Loew, president of the […]
Continue ReadingBy Dave Abbott of NELA Sports One Football honors Franklin Panthers running back Omar Gardella, a senior, has been named Northern League MVP. Gardella had 160 carries for 851 yards and 13 touchdowns in 11 games played. He was instrumental in the team’s Northern League Championship run and its 10-1 overall won-loss record. Two Franklin […]
Continue ReadingBy Jeffery Marino Home prices in Northeast Los Angeles continued to cool down in the fall, as higher interest rates and persistent inflation took their toll on NELA’s once surging market for residential real estate. The median sale price for a home in NELA was $1.09 million in October, the latest month with comprehensive data. […]
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Sponsored Content from the East Area Progressive Democrats
In September, after an eight-year struggle led by concerned neighbors in Eagle Rock and members of East Area Progressive Democrats (EAPD), the Glendale City Council voted to close the polluting dump at Scholl Canyon that has loomed over the community for 60 years.
What shifted the balance of power . . . .
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This is the continuing Story of a whole new Civilization being born right here, right now, on Earth; That’s right! Read about it here.
Continue ReadingBy T.A. Hendrickson, Editor of the Boulevard Sentinel
Two things jumped out at me as I compiled the following list of the top 20 most-read stories in the Sentinel in 2021.
First, Northeast Los Angeles had its share of change, controversy and tragedy in 2021, punctuated by bright moments in art, food – and vaccines.
Second, the list reflects the Sentinel’s hard work in 2021 to bring you the local news.
(Click on the photo to see the top 20 stories for 2021, as measured by views.)
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Wishing you a safe holiday season and happy start to the New Year from the Tracy Do Team! 2022 marks our 20th year of selling Eastside homes, and we are grateful to our many clients in Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Echo Park, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, Atwater Village and the surrounding communities who […]
Continue ReadingBy Bill Hendrickson Imad Boukai, the Orange County businessman who owns the Pillarhenge site in Eagle Rock, has entered into a contract to sell the property. Located at 1332 Colorado Boulevard, Pillarhenge had been on the market for 12 days before the contract was signed on Dec. 18. The asking price was $2.99 million, though […]
Continue ReadingSPONSORED CONTENT FROM THE EAGLE ROCK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL TIPS for CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING As the holiday season winds down, the dreaded task of taking down all the festive decorations comes into view. You might be wondering what’s the best way to discard your Christmas tree. Look no further than your own LA City Sanitation Department! […]
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Nyerges
When I was around 10, my four brothers and I were particularly bad, belligerent, and misbehaving one autumn.
My mother gave us several warning and threats and a few “beatings” in her ceaseless attempt to get us to obey – all to no avail.
So, my mother said, “Keep it up and there will be no Christmas this year.” Read what actually happened in the Nyerges home that year.
Continue ReadingJosie Hanafi has a clear preference when she needs medical care. A clinical lab scientist in our hematology department, Josie chooses to receive care at Huntington Hospital for the same reason she chooses to work here. “I love Huntington Hospital, and I trust all the doctors here,” she says. “I believe in the work we […]
Continue ReadingSpurred on by the East Area Progressive Democrats, Eagle Rockers spoke up loud and clear when it mattered. And the state Redistricting Commission acted. The Commission has released an updated configuration that is now final of federal district boundaries in California. In the new map, Eagle Rock is reunified in one Congressional district as Eagle […]
Continue ReadingIf you haven’t yet been, what are you waiting for? Three restaurants in Northeast Los Angeles have made the L.A. Times list of best restaurants in L.A. in 2021: Chifa in Eagle Rock and Hippo and Joy in Highland Park. Here’s what the Times restaurant critic, Bill Addison, had to say: “Chifa Eagle Rock, Chinese/Peruvian $$ […]
Continue ReadingBy Pablo Nukaya-Petralia The time between now and New Year’s Day doesn’t have to be a rush. Here are six ways to chill and have fun in Northeast L.A. in the days and weeks ahead. Holiday movie nights for the whole family In the run up to Christmas, Eagle Rock-based Street Food Cinema and the […]
Continue ReadingGianna Galluppi was born at Huntington Hospital in 2020. She seemed in good health but a few hours later she began to have serious problems. Gianna’s lungs had not fully developed and she needed help to breath.
Huntington had saved Gianna’s Dad Francis’ life when he was born, and it was going to have to do the same for Gianna. Huntington succeeded. Read more here.
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SPONSORED CONTENT FROM THE EAGLE ROCK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL We are reaching out to senior homeowners in the community to take precaution and be prepared when considering selling or tapping equity in their homes, especially when approached by solicitors. It has been brought to the attention of local residents and the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council […]
Continue ReadingBy Bill Hendrickson StreetsLA held the first of two briefings on Sunday on the planned $16 million makeover of Eagle Rock Boulevard that is to take place from now to completion in 2025. About 40 Eagle Rockers attended the Zoom meeting on the project, dubbed “Rock the Blvd.” While many of the safety and beautification […]
Continue ReadingBy Mary Lynch The Los Angeles Times has given shout outs to several shops in Northeast Los Angeles this holiday season. Acorn and Folia Collective in Eagle Rock and Prelude & Dawn in Highland Park have made the Times’ list of shops in in L.A. where you can find the “perfect holiday gift.” The Juicy […]
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Eagle Rock just got a little denser with the sale in October of 4847 Genevieve Ave.
Over the past year and a half, neighbors have watched as the lot was transformed from a single-family fixer with lots of potential into two brand new, self-contained homes.
The transformation was undertaken by ADU Homes, Inc. Read what they did and how they did it here.
Continue ReadingBy Carolyn Caswell, MFT, M. Msc.
This is the continuing Story of a whole new Civilization being born right here, right now, on Earth; Read on please.
By T.A. Hendrickson As of Dec. 1, the Covid-19 vaccination rate among public school students ages 12 and up was 84% in Northeast Los Angeles, an encouraging sign that the vaccine requirement by L.A. Unified School District is working. The 84% vaccination rate in NELA schools works out to 9,033 students ages 12 and up […]
Continue ReadingIf an earthquake ruptured our neighborhood, ripping it apart down the middle of Colorado and Eagle Rock Boulevards, we would call it a disaster.
That is exactly what is happening now, in the process called redistricting. With no sirens but potentially severe damage, fault lines have emerged suddenly along two of our
most familiar streets to fracture Eagle Rock into two Congressional districts. Read more here including what you can do about this.
By Bill Hendrickson
The Glendale City Council gave Glendale Water and Power the go-ahead on Tuesday to build a biogas power plant at the Scholl Canyon landfill in the hills above Eagle Rock. The plant will convert methane from decaying garbage into electricity for Glendale.
The vote on the five-member City Council was 3-2.
Continue ReadingBy Lizzy Watson Lizzy Watson, a student at Occidental College, is a participant in the NELA Neighborhood Reporting Partnership, a collaboration of the Boulevard Sentinel and The Occidental campus newspaper. Clad in her signature sparkling skeleton dress, singer/songwriter Phoebe Bridgers directed her gaze toward the audience. “Thank you for coming out tonight,” she said into the microphone. […]
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Picks from the people who bring you the Boulevard Sentinel Giving Tuesday, when nonprofits urge you to give to charity during the holiday season, falls on Tuesday, Nov. 30. There are many worthy causes. One way to choose is to give locally so that your donations support work taking place in your own community. Here, […]
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By Mary Lynch
It’s Shop Small Saturday, the official start of the local holiday shopping season, and for the 11th year in a row, small businesses in Eagle Rock are rolling out the collective welcome mat.
This year, the emphasis is on Eagle Rock’s women-owned retail shops. You will recognize them by the balloons (helium-free) adorning the shops.
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What’s a first-time homebuyer to do?
As home prices rise, so do down payments. The median sale price for a home in Northeast Los Angeles was $1.075 million in October. At that price, a buyer would need $215,000 to make a 20% down payment.
To make matters more difficult, buyers who need time to save up for a house are likely to find that home prices rise faster than their savings accounts. There’s more. Read on.
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Nyerges [www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com] Severin Browne has a secure spot on the list of prominent musician/songwriters from Highland Park, along with his brother, Jackson, Timothy Sellers, Tommy Trujillo and the phenom Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas. And now, Severin, who lives in the home built by his grandfather near the Arroyo Seco, has a […]
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s appointment of Alex Padilla to replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate is sure to resonate with many residents of Northeast Los Angeles.
Padilla is not directly connected to NELA. But as the state’s first ever Latino U.S. Senator, he reflects the majority in NELA.
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Continue ReadingThe median sale price for a home in Northeast Los Angeles recently hit $920,000, with even small Highland Park bungalows like this one selling for over $800,000. But even amid rising prices, it’s possible — not easy, but possible — to find an affordable home. The following three homes are all fixer-uppers but none of […]
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Picks from the people who bring you the Boulevard Sentinel The charitable giving season launched on Tuesday, December 1 — “Giving Tuesday” – when nonprofits remind you to donate online at the holidays and spread the word by posting about your donation at #GivingTuesday. There is no shortage of worthy local nonprofits to choose from. […]
Continue ReadingBy Bill Hendrickson City Councilmember Gil Cedillo has announced the winners in “High Res 2020,” a photography competition that challenged local high school students to portray the impact of COVID-19 on their families, friends, classes and communities. Leo Phillips, a freshman at Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts in downtown L.A., took first place. […]
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Continue ReadingHere is the latest sales data for single family home sales in NELA. See what sales have been doing near you.
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Continue ReadingKCAL9/CBS2 chose an Eagle Rock High Senior and the Eagle Rock High physics teacher to honor this month for their outstanding achievements. Read about it here.
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Thousands took in the Eagle Rock Bark this year. They had fun and did good. A great combination. Read about it here.
Continue ReadingIt’s time once again to count the homeless. You can volunteer. Read about it here.
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The property was going to house the homeless but City red tape took too long and reviving the congregation presented itself. There’s more. Read about it here.
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Two more defendants were sentenced to prison in November in a major federal case against three street gangs in Northeast Los Angeles. There’s more. Read it here.
Continue ReadingBy T. A. Hendrickson An effort in Eagle Rock to create safer, more sanitary conditions for the homeless advanced on November 15, when the Los Angeles City Council told city agencies to study the use of the parking lot at 7541 Figueroa Street as a homeless-services staging area. Among the potential uses: Installing mobile showers […]
Continue ReadingDeceased’s sister speaks out. Read story here.
Continue ReadingColorado Boulevard Is Focus of Metro Workshops – 134 Freeway Option is nowhere in sight. Read more here.
Continue ReadingTracy A. Stone, an architect in Elysian Valley and president of the nonprofit Elysian Valley Arts Collective, has been named one of the “Best Green Architects” in Los Angeles by L.A. Architects magazine. There’s more.
Continue ReadingWhen you donate to local nonprofits, your contributions stay in the area. Great places to Give to! Check them out here.
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to holiday traditions, the most important ones in my family center around food, Italian food. What about your family?
Continue ReadingVictories for Eagle Rock and Franklin Highlight the Fall Season Playoffs and Championships. We cover those here. Read on.
Continue ReadingThe Milagro Allegro Community Garden in Highland Park is indeed a happy place. Will it stay happy after Oscar Duarto moves on? Here’s the story. . . . .
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I’ve observed what happens when David Holguin, 27, starts to play his guitar. People stop and listen – and then they stay, waiting for another song. “That’s the kind of music we need more of,” said one man who recently stopped to listen to Holguin at the Old L.A. Farmers Market in Highland Park. Holguin, […]
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A new family has moved onto the street in Eagle Rock where I have always lived, into the Simmons’ house. It’s the same house, but with a new family who will create their own experiences and memories just like Melvin and Joyce Simmons did for 50 years before moving recently to Glendora to be closer […]
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Public school teachers in Los Angeles will go on strike starting Thursday, Jan. 10, unless an unforeseen breakthrough occurs before then. The teachers union – United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) – announced the strike date on Dec. 19. The announcement followed the release of a report by a fact-finding panel made up of a […]
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As 2018 draws to a close, I asked the LAPD for updates on some of the higher profile crimes that occurred this year in Northeast L.A. Here’s a rundown as of Nov. 16: No suspects were identified in the attempted kidnapping on Jan. 22 at Campus Road and Escarpa Drive, near Eagle Rock High School. […]
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On Nov. 14, the labor dispute between the L.A. school district and the L.A. teachers union entered the fact-finding stage. Over the next 30 days or so, the claims by each side will be analyzed and a report issued by a panel headed by the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), the state agency that oversees […]
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For the most part, businesses and landlords in Northeast Los Angeles and the rest of the city have had no choice but to accept the higher costs and new procedures imposed by RecycLA, the city’s commercial trash-hauling system in effect since July 2017. But at a recent meeting of the committee on Energy, Climate Change […]
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Violet Rivers, a third grader at Eagle Rock Elementary, will sing next month at a student showcase in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the National Parent Teacher Association and the U.S. Department of Education. Violet will perform her original song, Transformation, which won a 2018 National Award of Excellence in Music Composition last May in an […]
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Eileen Harmon, a longtime resident of Highland Park, died in her sleep of natural causes on Oct. 26, just a few days shy of her 97th birthday. Eileen was born in Ohio to Frances and Harley McGlone, both of whom were born and raised in neighboring Kentucky. Along with her siblings, Normajean, Hazel and Marvin, […]
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Merritt George Tritch, co-owner of Tritch Hardware in Eagle Rock, has died. His passing, on Nov. 14 at age 88, is one of those events that give a community pause. His long life was well lived in loving service to family, friends, community and country. It was also so deeply rooted in one place, Eagle […]
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The methane gas from decaying trash at the Scholl Canyon landfill in the hills above Eagle Rock is being “flared,” or burned off, the Boulevard Sentinel has learned. Contrary to common belief, the methane is no longer being used to make electricity at the Grayson Power Plant in Glendale. From an environmental point of view, […]
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NELA’s City Councilmember, José Huizar, engulfed in legal problems, has all but disappeared from public view. In September and October, Mr. Huizar was named in a personnel complaint and two lawsuits by former employees alleging various violations, including workplace discrimination, harassment and retaliation. On Nov. 7, his home, City Hall office and field office in […]
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The program for the Los Angeles Master Chorale on Sunday, Nov. 17 was a conversational double bilI, conducted by Grant Gershon. It opened with Bach’s luminous Magnificat, which Gershon led with an agile bearing, bright but relaxed. Then there was the contemporary selection – the West Coast premiere of Reena Esmail’s, This Love Between Us: […]
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Fun for Kids During Winter Break. Winter Day Camps: The Eagle Rock Recreation Center, Glassell Park Recreation Center and Highland Park Recreation Center, offer winter day camp for kids ages 5 to 12, with one session from Dec. 17 to Dec. 21 and another session from Dec. 31 to Jan. 4, 2019. (Highland Park will […]
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This Editor’s Notebook contains fun things to do, important things to know, ways to get involved and events to put on your calendar.
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Fun things to do, important things to know, ways to get involved and events to put on your calendar. Kudos Veterans Honored: Every year, each Los Angeles City Councilmember selects a “Veteran of the Year” from his or her district. This year, Regina A. Scott is the honoree from NELA’s Council District 1 and Marcos […]
Continue ReadingFirst of all, Happy Holidays. No matter how you celebrate or what you celebrate, I wish you all a joyful, healthy holiday season, where we put the old year behind us and look forward to the new one. Second, thank you to all of the merchants and shoppers that helped to make Shop Small Eagle […]
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