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    Found: Mini Pinscher & Lab Mix in Echo Park*

    Submitted by V. Pochoda Found in Echo Park / Elysian Heights: 2 Female Dogs, clearly bonded. 1 large shepherd / lab mix with red collar. 1 mini pinscher. Both look healthy with nice coats and teeth. * Update: The owners have claimed their pets, Lost & Found is part of The Eastsider Forums, where Eastsider [...]

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    Elysian Heights school parents seek more info on sharing campus with charter operator

    A group of Elysian Heights Elementary  concerned about a proposal to share the campus with a charter school have organized a community meeting for next week.  Elysian Heights Elementary is one of the many L.A. Unified schools – including Micheltorena Street School in Silver Lake and King Middle School in Los Feliz – that might [...]

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    Planning board supports Elysian Heights coffee house plan to serve wine and beer

    A city planning commission on Wednesday let stand a decision that would allow Fix Coffee in Elysian Heights to serve beer and wine and host live entertainment, according to residents. The East Los Angeles Area Planning Commission voted 4-0 against an appeal filed by Susan Borden, one of the residents who has opposed an effort [...]

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    Elysian Heights volunteers to clean up what the winds left behind

    The supporters of  Elysian Heights Elementary have organized a Saturday morning campus clean up following this week’s windstorm. They could use as much help as possible, according to The Friends of Elysian Heights Elementary: Elysian Heights Elementary will be opened on Saturday (Dec 3) morning for a community clean-up after the big winds.  The school [...]

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    Elysian Heights coffeehouse moves closer to serving beer and wine

    Fix Coffee has been granted a city permit to serve beer and wine and to host live entertainment despite opposition from some Elysian Heights residents as well as councilman Eric Garcetti and school board president Monica Garcia. Opponents said they were concerned about the proximity of beer and wine being served across the street from [...]

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    LAPD releases drawing of Elysian Park sexual assault suspect

    The LAPD today released a composite drawing of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman as she finished an afternoon hike in Elysian Park on Oct. 31.  The LAPD provided the following description of the suspect: The suspect is described as a male, Hispanic with black hair and brown eyes.  He stands about 5 [...]

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    Suspect wanted in Elysian Park sexual assault *

    Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who sexually assaulted a woman as she was finishing an afternoon walk through Elysian Park. The woman had notified her Twitter followers that she was in the park before the Oct. 31 attack. Police are not saying the victim’s Twitter post made her a [...]

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    Exploring the hidden passage between Echo Park and Silver Lake one step at a time

    View Loma Vista-Cove Passage in a larger map The Loma Vista Passage is what David Kimbrough calls the public stairways that make up much of Loma Vista Place as it courses up and down the steep hills of Silver Lake and the Elysian Heights section of Echo Park. The stairway and nearby streets form a [...]

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    Turbulent skies over Elysian Heights*

    Silver Lake blogger Diane Edwardson snapped images of dark clouds (top photo) skimming over the Semi Tropic Spiritualist Tract in Elysian Heights this morning ahead of this afternoon’s showers.  A few hours later, Martha Benedict of Montecito Heights captured an image (bottom photo) of Elysian Heights and Echo Park getting doused with a later afternoon [...]

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    Elysian Park dog walkers better have a leash handy

    Several officers were out in Elysian Park this morning issuing tickets to dog owners had violated leash laws. A man named Robert spotted four police officers and park rangers – in and out of uniform – issuing tickets on the trail north of Academy Drive and near the Grace E. Simons parking lot. Many dog [...]

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    Councilman Garcetti joins opposition against Elysian Heights alcohol permit

    Councilman Eric Garcetti has joined school board president  Monica Garcia in opposing  a request by Fix Coffee to serve beer and wine across the street from Elysian Heights Elementary School.  Garcia  had requested that Garcetti oppose Fix Coffee’s alcohol permit because the corner coffee house  is too close to the school at Echo Park Avenue [...]

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    School board member opposes beer and wine permit for Elysian Heights coffee house*

    School Board President Monica Garcia has joined the residents who are opposing plans by Fix Coffee to sell beer and wine across the street from Elysian Heights Elementary School.  Garcia’s unexpected opposition was made public this morning during a public hearing over Fix’s request to obtain a beer and wine permit.  Elmer Roldan, a community [...]

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    Commission approves cutting down Elysian Heights trees

    An Elysian Heights home developer was granted permission this morning to cut down more than 40 native trees but must first receive building and grading permits.  The city’s Board of Public Works added the condition at the request of nearby residents who feared the approximately three-acre parcel near Allesandro and El Moran Street that would [...]

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    Elysian Heights residents make another pitch to save trees

    A group of Elysian Heights residents and Public Works Commissioner Andrea Alarcon on Sunday afternoon toured a hillside lot where a developer has asked to cut down more than 40 native trees protected by city ordinance.  The developer, Planet Home Living, has proposed planting more than 160 replacement trees and to build a trail on [...]

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    Proposal to cut down Elysian Heights trees delayed

    The city’s  Board of Public Works  postponed a hearing scheduled for today on the removal of more than 40 native trees on the site of an Elysian Heights housing development.  The head of the commission,  Andrea Alarcon,  will be setting up a meeting involving several community leaders to discuss the matter, according to Echo Park [...]

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    Echo Park council backs coffee house plans to serve beer and wine

    By Mary Allen A crowd of Echo Park and Elysian Heights residents attended a neighborhood council meeting Tuesday night  to voice their opinions on permitting Fix Coffee in Elysian Heights to serve beer and wine.  In a 9-3 vote, the Board of Governors ultimately backed Fix’s beer and wine permit after the discussing and rejecting [...]

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