Archive for January, 2016
Village Cadettes are busy on Silver projects
Lachmont Village Girl Scouts is a Cadette troop of seventh and eighth graders who have been together since the first and second grades. “The 16 girls love to hike, camp, go on adventures and help their community,” said the Troop #495 leader Amy Elvis Kiehl Miller. “The entire troop completed Bronze Awards two years ago, […]
Metro to deck Wilshire at La Brea for 22 weekends
At a meeting jointly sponsored by Councilman David E. Ryu and Metro, held at Los Angeles High School on Jan. 21, no final decision was announced to resolve the La Brea “decking” controversy. However, indications pointed to a 22-weekend approach. Before an audience of approximately 80 neighborhood stakeholders, Metro’s construction relations manager, Kasey Shuda, oversaw […]
Ninety years of zoning debates show no signs of ending
Councilman Thomas D. Shepard went to jail The debate over land use and zoning in Los Angeles is as old as many of the city’s neighborhoods. The Aug. 28, 1925, front page of the “Larchmont Post” (framed on a wall in the offices of the Larchmont Chronicle) boasts the headline, “Zoning of Wilshire will be […]
Real Estate Sales*
Real Estate Sales Single family homes 134 Fremont Pl. 441 S. McCadden Pl. 234 S. Rimpau Blvd. 625 N. Highland Ave. 418 S. Sycamore Ave. 531 S. Van Ness Ave. 268 S. Norton Ave. 429 N. Arden Blvd. 1025 S. Longwood Ave. 433 S. Citrus. Ave. 565 N. Gower St. 307 N. Windsor Blvd. 1193 […]
Carnivale is coming to Farmers Market
Carnivale is coming to Farmers Market. Bead throwing, gumbo, beignets, Dixie music and beer will be on the menu at the Mardi Gras Celebration at The Original Farmers Market Sat., Feb. 6 and Fat Tuesday, Feb. 9. The 27th annual festival will see the Market festooned in traditional Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and […]
The fabric of life in a neighborhood—the wonders and worries
HOME GROUND is a new Larchmont Chronicle column about our shared neighborhood urban landscape. I’m a walker in the city. I’ve been a solo walker since before I turned five. I started watching the landscape of my then-city, a gritty industrial town, before I had any ideas. Before I read books. Before television. The path […]
