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Murder on La Brea: suspect arrested, community mourns
A shocking incident at a furniture store in Hancock Park last month has rattled business owners and residents alike. Brianna Kupfer was killed Jan. 13 while working alone at the Croft House furniture store on N. La Brea Avenue. Just after 1:30 p.m., Kupfer, 24, who was seeking a graduate degree in architectural design at […]
New districts, new city council representatives
Political redistricting has brought significant change to the Mid-Wilshire areas covered by the Larchmont Chronicle. For more than 80 years, most of the City of Los Angeles’s geographic area east of Fairfax Avenue and north of Olympic Boulevard has been a part of the Fourth Council District, represented successively by Robert L. Burns, Harold A. […]
Alarmed by crime spike, local residents take action
A number of recent high-profile crimes in Greater Wilshire have left local residents feeling alarmed. The Hancock Park Homeowners Association (HPHA) hosted a virtual “Security Town Hall” Dec. 6 to discuss the recent crime and security issues. In November, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire Division responded to three street robberies and one attempted car-jacking […]
Larchmont Village resident named a Mitchell Scholar
Local resident Rhiannon McGavin has been selected as one of 12 members of the George J. Mitchell Scholar Class of 2023. Considered one of Ireland’s most prestigious scholarship programs, it sends future American leaders to the island of Ireland for a year of graduate study. This year, 351 individuals applied for the 12 scholarships that […]
‘Larchmont Survey’ stirs controversy
The Larchmont 2021 Survey [was to have been] now closed and the results being tallied (to be released later this month) but community leaders in Larchmont are warning constituents to disregard the survey and ignore its findings, due to a flawed process and misleading survey questions that ultimately have the potential to do more harm […]
Pilgrim School leader tapped for Columbia fellowship
Pilgrim School’s newly appointed Head of School Patricia Kong has been selected to join a small cohort of experienced national and international school leaders for the 2022 Klingenstein Head of School Fellowship in late January. The highly selective program admits 20 heads of school annually and offers a two-week, fully-funded fellowship at Columbia University’s Teachers College in […]
