Letter from the Publisher

Letter from the Editor: Coping with Covid, Getting On with Life

09/01/202007/26/2021 T.A. Hendrickson10202

by T.A. Hendrickson

Letter from the Editor: The Pandemic in Northeast L.A

08/01/202007/26/2021 T.A. Hendrickson9602

by T.A. Hendrickson

Protesters raise their arms while chanting, “Hands up, don’t shoot!” at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles on May 31.(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Letter from the Editor: Pandemic. Unrest. Community.

06/01/202007/26/2021 T.A. Hendrickson97854 Comments

By T.A. Hendrickson In the 10th week of the coronavirus shutdown in Los Angeles, as this June issue of the Boulevard Sentinel was being finalized, the city, still struggling to escape the grip of the pandemic, was seized again – by peaceful protest turned violent in the wake of the shocking killing in Minneapolis of […]

Tim Tritch, our Publisher

09/01/201909/01/2019 T.A. Hendrickson27121 Comment

When I first saw this issue of the Boulevard Sentinel all put together, it occurred to me that many of the stories in its pages could have gone on the front page. T.A. Hendrickson, the editor of the Boulevard Sentinel, told me that the fire in Eagle Rock and Glendale bumped a story about the […]

Letter from the Publisher

07/26/2019 admin23731 Comment

A while back, I had a feeling this wasn’t going to be a mellow summer. And that was before the earthquakes in early July. Homelessness continues to be a dominant topic in NELA. In our front page story, Matthew Reagan and Mary Lynch circled back to find out how efforts to help have been working […]

Letter from the Publisher

04/27/201905/31/2019 admin2035

I’m ready for summer to get here, but sometimes I’m not sure there’s much of a break in store. One of our front page stories this month, on local preparations for the 2020 census, shows how big national events impact us in our own neighborhoods. Filling out the census form once every 10 years should […]

Letter from the Publisher

06/28/201907/26/2019 admin2280

The Boulevard Sentinel team has put out another great paper this month. For starters, it’s safe to say you will not find a better piece of local journalism anywhere than our cover story this month on the homeless encampments in Eagle Rock. Our contributor, Joel Sappell, spent a month working on the story, visiting the […]

Letter from the Publisher

05/31/201906/28/2019 admin26261 Comment

I am so proud of this issue of the Boulevard Sentinel. Bill Hendrickson’s reporting on the impending eviction of two senior citizens in Eagle Rock is advocacy journalism at its best. The achievement of local high school graduates in the Class of 2019 is something the entire community can feel good about. The front page […]

Letter from the Publisher

04/01/201904/28/2019 admin2186

This was a news-heavy month, especially regarding the schools in our area. Fingers crossed for Eagle Rock Elementary as it navigates a big and sudden budget cut, covered by Laura Brady-Allen on our front page. And kudos to the two runoff candidates for School Board. They’ve done their part to get this far. Now it’s […]

Letter from the Publisher

02/27/201904/27/2019 admin2451

I have to start this letter with a few shout outs. First, to Tina Wu, a senior at Franklin High in Highland Park, and the rest of the Franklin Academic Decathlon team. (Read all about them starting on the front page). What an accomplishment. All of us at the Boulevard Sentinel are rooting for you […]

Letter from the Publisher

02/02/201903/02/2019 admin26742 Comments

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 […]

Letter from the Publisher

12/29/201802/02/2019 Bill Hendrickson2371

Happy New Year! I wish you all the best, at this time of year and always. As for me, I need to exhale. When we were putting this issue together, we put together the recap you will see on page 12. It shows the 12 covers of the Boulevard Sentinel for 2018. […]

Letter from the Publisher

12/02/201812/29/2018 Tim Tritch2555

First 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 […]

Letter from the Publisher

11/02/201812/02/2018 Tim Tritch2510

Where do I start? Last month, I ended my Publisher’s Letter by reminding people to register to vote if they weren’t already registered. Now, the midterm election is here, so, please, vote. It’s important. And if you don’t believe me, check out the Lani Says column on page 10. She’s not old enough to vote […]

Letter from the Publisher

10/06/201811/02/2018 Tim Tritch2771

Is NELA getting more interesting? Or is the Boulevard Sentinel getting more interesting? Or both? I love this issue and I hope you will, too. Real journalism and great follow up on issues, like the parking-lots-to-housing plan in Lincoln Heights that Bill Hendrickson writes about on the front page. It so common that an issue […]

Letter from the Publisher

09/01/201810/06/2018 Tim Tritch2319

People in NELA are changing the world. That is the thought I had looking at this issue of the Boulevard Sentinel. Miry Whitehill, whose Miry’s List organization to help refugees has been awarded a $200,000 grant (front page), launched the effort while serving on the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council (ERNC). She credits another ERNC member, […]

Letter from the Publisher

07/28/201809/01/2018 Tim Tritch25901 Comment

Summer is supposed to be a slow time. But as this issue of the Boulevard Sentinel shows, there is really no slowing down in NELA. Either things are happening in the area or things taking place elsewhere affect the area. And it’s not all good. For instance, on page 9, we review the latest information […]

Letter from the Publisher

07/11/201807/28/2018 Tim Tritch2237

There’s more change coming to Highland Park, and more questions about what it all will mean. (“Figueroa St. Gets a New Landlord,” front page). I want to commend Bill Hendrickson for the careful eye he brings to the real estate transactions that are reshaping our communities before our very eyes. Our other front page story […]

Letter from the Publisher

06/02/201807/11/2018 Tim Tritch26801 Comment

Welcome to Summer, 2018. It’s cliché to say that time flies, but it’s a cliché because it’s true! I don’t know about you, but I can’t hear “Pomp and Circumstance” without tears coming to my eyes. Everyone in NELA has cause to be proud of the Class of 2018, from Franklin High and Eagle Rock […]

April 2018

04/01/201804/01/2018 admin

It was a news heavy month. As we prepared to go to print for the April edition, the police identified two suspects in the murder in January of Daniel Duarte, a homeless man, in Montecito Heights. In a debut article for the Boulevard Sentinel, veteran journalist Diana Martinez Chavez covered the LAPD press conference for […]

March 2018

03/08/201803/31/2018 Tim Tritch23971 Comment

I would be hard pressed to choose a favorite time of year, but the start of Springtime is up there, with its tie to making things new again. Some of the articles in this issue revolve around a renewal theme: The renovation of the Frank’s Camera building in Highland Park is now home to eight […]

February 2018

02/08/201804/01/2018 admin2195

NELA seems to be looking to the future these days, with the launch of plans to revitalize the Los Angeles River and to refurbish Eagle Rock Blvd. rising to the top of our news coverage this month. In an era when public improvements, large and small, seem impossible to get off the ground, it is […]