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    El Sereno endures a week of shootings and violence

    A Saturday night shooting that left three injured in El Sereno was the third shooting in a week that resulted in injuries and one death in the neighborhood, according to police and news reports.  The Saturday night victims were sitting in a parked car near Axtell Street and Eastern Avenue, reports ABC7.   It’s not clear [...]

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    House Hunt: Don’t touch that tile!

    A nearly century-old El Sereno bungalow now selling for $139,900 is eligible for a mortgage that can help pay for renovations, according to the Redfin listing. At first glance it looks like this three-bedroom home overlooking Huntington Drive could use a total makeover but closer inspection reveals some historic features worth preserving.  The front porch, [...]

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    House Hunt: Big homes with big views from University Hills

    The hillside homes clustered west of Cal State of L.A. in the University Hills section of El Sereno boast some  sweeping views of the mountains and the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles. University Hills lacks the midcentury architecture of Silver Lake and the woodsy landscape of  Elysian Heights and Mt. Washington. But compared to these [...]

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    Fire burning in hills of El Sereno *

    Firefighters launched a ground and air attack on a small grass fire that broke out this afternoon on the border of El Sereno and Lincoln Heights near the site of an earlier blaze that blackened about three acres early this morning.  This afternoon’s fire, which was reported shortly after 5 p.m., had consumed less than [...]

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    El Sereno open space up for grabs

    El Sereno residents in recent years have scored some major victories in preserving open space for parkland. In 2009, the city agreed to purchase 15 acres atop Elephant Hill for open space, and El Sereno residents today celebrate the grand opening of Ascot Hills Park, which sprawls over more than 100 acres of grassy slopes [...]

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    The Mad Hatter, Mr. Fox & me

    Last week, fifth graders Andres Garcia of Euclid Elementary in Boyle Heights and Jethro Valenzuela from Glen Alta Elementary in El Sereno returned from a week-long trip to London they won as a prize in an essay contest.  Andres, Jethro and six other student winners were among the 450 children from L.A.’s Best after school [...]

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    Korean spoken & taught here

    Cal State L.A. will become the first university in the nation to offer a Korean-language teaching certificate, according to college officials.  The El Sereno school will create three Korean language programs, offer a major and minor in Korean and eventually a Korean language teaching certificate for high school teachers by 2016 as part of a [...]

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    El Sereno shooting leaves one person dead

    One man was killed  in El Sereno tonight after gunfire erupted on Tampico Avenue in the neighborhood’s second shooting in two days.  The victim was killed in a shooting reported shortly before 11 p.m. on Tampico Avenue north of Huntington Drive, according to early police reports cited by Lt. Ellis Imaizumi with the Hollenbeck Division.  [...]

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    One injured in El Sereno drive-by shooting

    A 28-year-old man was shot in the leg tonight while standing outside an El Sereno house in what police say may have been a gang-related shooting. The victim was reported in stable condition following the 7 p.m. shooting  in the 3500 block of Locke Avenue, said Sgt. Michael Morisseau with the LAPD Hollenbeck Division.  The [...]

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    Flying high above El Sereno

    Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer // After hearing many longtime El Sereno residents talk about flying kites atop the grassy Ascot Hills, the LA-32 Neighborhood Council today hosted the first Kite Flying Festival. Climbing to the top of two steep ridges over looking the city, kite flyers young and old flew kites in the [...]

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    Who took Maria Cortes’ tamale cart?

    El Sereno resident Demi Contreras never had to go very far when she had a craving for a tamale. All she had to do was walk a short distance from her home to a spot near Gambier Street and Bowman Boulevard where Maria Cortes could usually be found nearly every weekday morning selling tamales and [...]

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    Price war breaks out between Eastside LAPD divisions

    Earlier this year the LAPD Northeast Division, which patrols the area from Silver Lake and Echo Park to Eagle Rock and Highland Park, announced  it would begin selling The CLUB steering wheel locks  for only $11 (compared to a retail price of about $30)  to help deter car thieves. This week,  Hollenbeck Division, which covers [...]

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    El Sereno wants more from Food-4-Less remodel

    The November issue of The Voice newspaper reports that many El Sereno residents were let down by a plan to renovate the box-like Food-4-Less market in the 4900 block of  Huntington Drive. Company officials presented their plans during a community meeting in late October for an approximately $5 million project that would bring a  new [...]

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    Veterans face battles long after war’s end

    Cal State L.A. on Thursday commemorates the upcoming Veterans Day holiday with a forum on the challenges facing soldiers when they return home. The event on the El Sereno campus features a presentation by Noreen Glover-Graf, a professor at the University of Texas-Pan American,  who has been studying how the experiences of Vietnam and Iraq [...]

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    School district puts Wilson High up for grabs

    The Los Angeles school district announced a third batch of poorly performing schools it wants others to have a chance to operate, and El Sereno’s Wilson Senior High is on the list. The hilltop campus is one of 26 existing schools that will be made available to groups ranging from existing teachers to charter school [...]

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    Cal State L.A. sustainable energy center gets a boost

    Cal State L.A. has received a $1.7 million grant to turn a portion of  the university Engineering and Technology building (pictured) on the El Sereno campus into a research center focused on energy efficiency and sustainability. Cal State was awarded the three-year National Science Foundation  grant  in addition to a $5 million grant to establish [...]

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