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    The thump heard around Echo Park

    What was all that thumping about this weekend?  Residents from different corners of Echo Park and Angeleno Heights – Park Drive, Lilac Terrace,  Ewing Street – reported hearing an “oontz, oontz, oontz“  – beat that left heads and walls throbbing on Friday and Saturday night.  Joanna Weissen, in a Twitter post, said: I thought I [...]

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    Lost: Angeleno Heights hound named Cora

    Submitted by Richard Cromelin: Missing Dog: Cora, a large (ca. 85 lb) hound (Tibetan maybe?), black with brown markings and beige underside, with a cyst on her right foot. wearing a light blue collar with city tags and owner ID. Last seen Saturday Oct. 22 at home on Kellam Ave. west of Douglas. Please call [...]

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    Found: Chihuahua without a collar in Angeleno Heights

    Russ Kerwin of Angeleno Heights is looking for the owner of a dog found in front of his house on Thursday night: Tonight there was a little black and tan chihuahua pincher dog roaming infront of our house without a collar. We walked it around looking for the owner, but no luck. Kerwin can be [...]

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    Storefront Report: New restaurant planned for east end of Echo Park

    A new restaurant is in the works for a renovated brick building on the border of Echo Park and Angeleno Heights. It’s not clear what kind of restaurant will open but the owners have pulled building permits and have asked the city permission to serve beer and wine at a proposed restaurant located at Allison [...]

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    Angeleno Heights preservation pioneer leaves behind a colorful memory of the neighborhood’s past

    When it came time to paint his Angeleno Heights home, Tom Morales took a set of colored pencils and began coloring illustrations of the 1887 Victorian to determine the perfect color combination.  Morales then tested colors on his childhood home at the southwest corner of Carroll Avenue and East Edgeware Road to find out how [...]

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    Police and burglary suspect return to Angeleno Heights*

    For the second time this week, police have closed off streets in Angeleno Heights and an LAPD helicopter is hovering overhead as officers search this morning for a burglary suspect who eluded them two days ago. This morning’s search began after 10 a.m. when detectives spotted the man — described as a light-complexioned, male Latino [...]

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    Police searching for suspected burglar in Angeleno Heights*

    A police helicopter has circled over Angeleno Heights and Echo Park tonight for nearly two hours as officers search for a burglary suspect. The search began at about midnight after officers spotted a man who had eluded them the night before following a previous incident, said officer Melvin Gamble with the Rampart Division.  A canine unit [...]

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    A salsa named “Buster” wins Atwater contest

    A software programmer from Angeleno Heights emerged as the winner of  the annual Atwater Farmers’ Market Salsa Dip Contest.  Ben Callaway’s mild but flavorful salsa took first place on Sunday after judges sampled seventeen entries. “I just threw a bunch of ingredients together and hoped for the best,” Callaway told Nathaniel Nickels, who photographed the [...]

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    A Sunday drive and police chase through Echo Park

    A stolen vehicle being pursued by as many as eight police squad cars and two helicopters raced through the streets of Echo Park and Angeleno Heights this afternoon before two persons were apprehended near West Edgeware Road and Carroll Avenue. An officer at the Northeast Division said the vehicle had been reported as  stolen but [...]

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    Found: White bunny in Angeleno Heights

    Lisa from Angeleno Heights wonders who is missing a white rabbit: We found a pet bunny on the corner of Douglas and Calumet in Angelino Heights. We placed a few signs along the street. If this is your bunny, call  213.482.3870. Lost & Found is part of The Eastsider Forums, where Eastsider readers can post [...]

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    Sponsored Post: Restored Angeleno Heights Craftsman-style home open this Sunday

    Tracy Do invites you to her newest listing in Angeleno Heights.  An open house will be held this Sunday from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. The beautiful and richly detailed Craftsman-style home at 1030 Edgeware Road in historic Angeleno Heights  is listed at $599,000.  Sited up above the street, the three-bedroom,  two-bathroom  home features restored original details, [...]

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    Angeleno Heights Victorian joins the million dollar house club

    Most of the Eastside’s million dollar home sales can be found in Silver Lake. However, last month a six-bedroom, 123-year-old Victorian home in Angeleno Heights sold for $1.1 million. The Angeleno Heights Victorian at the corner Kellam Avenue and West Edgeware Road , which T The Eastsider reported on in June, did not sit on [...]

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    $50 buys a Re-Lax-O-Table and supports a good cause

    Central City Action Committee in Angeleno Heights is holding a three-day rummage sale to help send about two-dozen middle  and high school kids to Disneyland and summer camping trips.  After more students than expected enrolled in Central City’s summer program, the nonprofit group and its students have held a series of rummage sales and other [...]

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    Missing autistic teen found after Echo Park search

    A 15-year-old autistic teen who ran away from home tonight was found after police launched a search across Echo Park and Angeleno Heights.  Sgt. Orpin with the Rampart Division said a resident called the police after seeing the boy, who is deaf and mute.  The search had been called off by about 10 p.m. Orpin [...]

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    The Planning Lady

    By Christine Peters aka The Planning Lady Here’s the latest batch of notable city planning filings and notices: What’s on the Rise? Silver Lake 3425 Larissa Drive: Yet another small lot -subdivision for this narrow hillside street.  This application is just a block away from 3310 Larissa (ZA-2011-1102-ZV), another vacant lot proposed to be carved [...]

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    Victorian charm – and 5-1/2 bathrooms – draws attention to this million dollar Angeleno Heights home

    Many first-time visitors to Angeleno Heights head directly to the 1300 block of Carroll Avenue, where a row of ornate Victorian-era homes painted in bright hues have attracted swarms of architecture and history buffs, film crews and recognition as a national historic monument.  But there are other grand, Victorian homes to be found across Angeleno [...]

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