Category: February
Meet the Team: The NELA Neighborhood Reporting Partnership signs up new members
By T. A. Hendrickson and Matthew Reagan
In October, the Boulevard Sentinel and The Occidental, the campus newspaper of Occidental College, announced the NELA Neighborhood Reporting Partnership (NELA NRP) — a professional collaboration between the two papers to bolster coverage of Northeast Los Angeles while offering Oxy’s reporters valuable local news experience. The Occidental has selected 13 student journalists to participate in the partnership this spring semester. Meet the Team.
Your Guide to Art and Culture in NELA
By Pablo Nukaya
As art and culture organizations have changed their ways in response to the pandemic, the result has been a creative outpouring of virtual exhibitions, online workshops and streaming performances.
Here are upcoming art and culture opportunities in Northeast Los Angeles, many of which are free and all of which can be experienced remotely or at a safe distance.
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Help getting a COVID-19 vaccination appointment for Eagle Rock seniors 65+ years old
by ERNC
Help is here! In our little corner of Northeast LA, a small band of Eagle Rock residents are volunteering to graciously work safely from their homes to find available appointments or help with rides to the appointment. There is no cost to seniors, and all communication will follow safety protocol. Want or need help? Read more!
Home sales in NELA set new records
By Jeffery Marino
By every measure, the recent market for residential real estate in Northeast Los Angeles is the strongest on record in data going back to 2012. Read about some of those records in this story.
Home sales in NELA set new records
By Jeffery Marino
By every measure, the recent market for residential real estate in Northeast Los Angeles is the strongest on record in data going back to 2012. Read about some of those records in this story.
A Guide to Voting in Northeast L.A.
Decision time is here: Vote-by-mail voters will start getting their ballots this week for the March 3 primary. Voting in person will start on February 22 and go until March 3 at convenient “vote center” locations throughout L.A. Here’s how to register to vote (if you aren’t registered, there’s still time), vote-by-mail or vote-in-person, including the locations and hours of 18 vote centers in Northeast L.A.
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
Eloquence and Patriotism combine in this moving piece by Stephen Vincent Benét.
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NELA Voters to Weigh In on Four Key Races
Incumbents Emphasize Experience, Challengers Say It’s Time for a Change
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Special Report: Break-Ins Steal a Sense of Security Along Colorado Blvd.
The Boulevard Is a Vulnerable Target, Business Owners Want More Police Presence by Joel Sappell and Laura Brady-Allen UPDATE: May 29, 2019, 6:25 p.m. Three men arrested for a one-night spree of burglaries on Colorado Blvd. in Eagle Rock and Pasadena on Jan. 5 pleaded no contest to the charges on May […]
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Your School Board, Your Vote
Election Comes at a Critical Time by T.A. Hendrickson Every election is important. But the special election on March 5 for Los Angeles school board is especially important to Northeast L.A. At stake is the open seat to represent Board District 5, which includes NELA. The person who fills the seat will take on […]
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The Regular Winter Season Wraps Up
By The winter season in high school sports in L.A. has been stop and go. Competition started in mid-December, stopped for the holiday break, started again on Jan. 9, stopped during the teacher strike that began in mid-January and resumed after the strike ended on Jan. 22. Making up for lost practice time is really […]
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Bycyclists and Hurricanes – Bringing out the best and worst in mankind
What do bicycling in Los Angeles and hurricanes have in common? Chris Nyerges will give you food for thought on both. Read on.
Continue ReadingThe Allure of Wild Mushrooms
A Voice in the NELA Wildernessby Christopher Nyerges With the recent rains, I have gone in search of mushrooms in wild and not-so-wild spots in NELA and the Arroyo Seco.My study of mycology began in the ’70’s. I wanted to try every wild mushroom I could find until I learned the meaning of the phrase […]
Continue ReadingDoris Thielen Turns 100
When Doris Thielen of Eagle Rock celebrates her 100th birthday this month, the milestone will be all the more remarkable for the fact that she has lived every one of her 100 years in Eagle Rock.In a recent interview, Mrs. Thielen described her century . . .
Continue ReadingTrash Haulers Win a Round in the Garbage Fight
A lawsuit to lower the fees for commercial garbage collection in Los Angeles hit a roadblock last month when the judge said the case was too flawed to go forward. But the Apartment Owners Association of California – which filed the lawsuit – has not given up. The judge gave the group until Feb. 8 […]
Continue ReadingSaying “No” to Yet Another Anti-Immigrant Proposal
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has received 216,102 public comments on a Trump administration proposal that would make it harder for legal immigrants to obtain green cards or permanent residency if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies or other common federal benefits. The comments were overwhelmingly against the proposal. It’s safe to say […]
Continue ReadingProgress on the Mural at the Southwest Museum
Work has finally begun to recreate the mural that once covered the wall along Marmion Way leading up to the Southwest Museum. The first step – creating detailed, life sized drawings of the original mural – got underway in January, when Pola Lopez, the renowned artist who will paint the new mural, received a first […]
Continue ReadingMike Kelly Memorial: Art that Unites Past and Present, Here and Elsewhere
Seven years ago, an abandoned carport at the end of Tipton Way in Highland Park became a community memorial to the artist Mike Kelley, who had his studio down the street and had died by suicide on Jan. 31, 2012. All through the month of February, 2012, visitors filled the space with farewell messages in […]
Continue ReadingSmoke in the Huizar Investigation, but Still No Fire
In the three months since the FBI raided the home and two offices of NELA City Councilmember José Huizar, no official explanation has been given for the raids and no related arrests or charges have been made. But the issue continues to generate a lot of smoke. The L.A. Times reported on Jan. 12 that […]
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Editor’s Notebook February 2019
Art You Can View, Art You Can Use INDUSTRIOUS: FOLKE, an exhibition from Feb. 1 through Feb. 28 at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock (CFAER), presents a collection of paintings, sketches, inkings, sculpture and illustrations by artists from three generations of a local family of artists. The featured works, by Ralf and Jeannette […]
Continue ReadingLetter from the Publisher
Here’s some unsolicited advice: If you want some real insight into what’s going on in NELA, read this issue cover to cover. In our front page crime story, Joel Sappell, a resident of Eagle Rock and former reporter and editor with the L.A. Times, teamed up with the Boulevard Sentinel’s Laura Brady-Allen to cover the […]
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