News & Notes from Boyle Heights, Echo Park & Silver Lake

Backside, Glassell Park | Photo by Luis Blackaller/Flickr

• City Council member want a faster, cheaper survey of broken sidewalks. L.A. Times
• A health-conscious tour of a Boyle Heights market. L.A. Now
• Public and charter schools prepare to learn to get along as they prepare to share Silver Lake campus. Los Feliz Ledger
• Medical marijuana advocates collect 50,000 signatures in support of a ballot measure that would repeal the city’s ban on pot shops. L.A. Times
• Lost: Great Dane in Echo Park. Lost & Found
• The Eastsider thanks R. Inman of Eagle Rock and T. Stone of Elysian Valley for purchasing  Reader Sponsorships.
• Happening Today: Central City Action Committee rummage sale, Angeleno Heights. Save the Date