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    Dear Eastsider: How do you disable a disabled parking space?

    Frederick from parking-poor Echo Park wants to know what to do about a disabled parking space on his street that is no longer needed: “I live on the 1300 block of Allesandro St. in Echo Park, near the corner of Reservoir. At one point there were tenants in one of the apartments that had handicap [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: I may never again go to the Edendale post office

    View Larger Map The stories of rudeness on the part of workers, as well as many patrons, at the Edendale post office have left many Echo Park and Silver Lake residents to travel to post offices in Atwater, Glassell Park and even Pasadena. Gloria Sohacki of Echo Park wants to remain an Edendale customer but [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: Did you know Arthur Cisneros?

    Cisneros was the 61-year-old man who hung out in Echo Park near the A-1 grocery store on Sunset Boulevard or across the street in the Royale Liquor mini mall. His large suit case on wheels was always nearby. “He was often drinking, even quite early in the morning, enjoying time with friends who stopped to [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: What's to keep my car from plunging into the Arroyo Seco?

    led as part of a project that features a new median divider along five miles of Los Angeles’ oldest freeway. It’s not certain when those new barriers will be built but Chandler said the agency is just about ready to seek bids on the project. He also said on Thursday that Caltrans crews were headed [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: In search of Sanchez

    Lucinda Ochoa is looking for help to track down her godparents who lived in El Sereno: “I‘m trying to reach any of the Sanchez’s that lived on Drysdale in El Sereno off Huntington Drive. Please if you can help me that would be a blessing. [Their] first names are David, Ricky, Olivia, Linda, Eualija and [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: Where is that music coming from?

    If you ever wondered why the neighborhood is called Echo Park, then you should talk to Martin, who writes in about a dance party heard far and wide this weekend: “Do you know the location of the booming vibrating dance music that has echoed around the neighbourhood for a second night? We first heard it [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: What's up with the stealth chopper?

    Kevin from Angeleno Heights reports seeing a helicopter flying over Echo Park at night without any lights. He spotted and heard it last week and again last night at about 9 pm dashing over Elysian Park. “It had no flashing lights. No spot lights. No nothing. You would think that anything flying at night would [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: Tagging translation needed *

    An Echo Park resident named Beth* asks who might be responsible for all the tagging in Victory Memorial Grove, a World War I monument, in Elysian Park above Lilac Terrace. “We are getting tagged every day with OSB or OSV. They keep spray painting the memorial in the grove, which really sucks. A kindly neighbor [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: How do I report a water waster?

    A random sampling of reader emails seeking and sharing information. If you have any info to share, please do so with a comment. The city began its new restrictions on water use this week just in time for some rare June showers. However, those water conservation rules and penalties for breaking them still apply. Jake [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: What's going on behind El Compadre?

    A random sampling of reader emails seeking and sharing information. If you have any info to share, please do so with a comment. The Big Dig: An Echo Park resident who wishes to remain anonymous notes that earth moving equipment, dump trucks and giant shovels have been at work for several days now behind El [...]

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    Dear Eastsider: What happened to my taco truck?

    The Eastsider doesn’t pretend to know it all (if he did would he be blogging for free?) Anyway, here is a random sampling of reader emails and questions that need to be answered. If you have any info to share, please do so with a comment. Missing Taco Truck: A Highland Park reader who wishes [...]

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