🌱 Green Qween On Broadway Burgled + Hoax Locks Down Hollywood HS

Good morning, friends; today is National Cream-Filled Donut Day! It's Wednesday in Los Angeles, and I'm back in your inbox to get you caught up on the most important things happening locally. We’re looking at:

• 🚓 A dispensary getting burglarized in broad daylight
• 🚓 A hoax locking down Hollywood High School
• 💡 An absence of lights making it impossible for John Marshall High School students to play sports after sunset

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📰 Here are the top five stories today in Los Angeles:

1) On Sunday morning, burglars targeted the Green Qween, a QTBIPOC owned and curated dispensary at 1051 South Broadway. Open since May, this is the second burglary. It is noteworthy that the burglars came in broad daylight and attempted “to pull off our front gate using their car, smashing the front door, and putting through reinforced security bars” with power tools. (Instagram)

2) A hoax led to a lockdown of Hollywood High School on Tuesday morning. Located at 1521 North Highland Avenue, the PD received “a false report of a possible shooting at the campus.” Now, the search is on for the person causing the campus shutdown and police response. (Patch)

3) In other school news, John Marshall High School can’t play sports in the dark. Located at 3939 Tracy Street, we learned on Tuesday that the school’s sports field has no lighting. Home games played in the afternoon have to end once the sun goes down, “regardless of how much time is left on the competition clock.” The cost to illuminate the playing field would be around $1.5 million. (The Eastsider LA)

4) Basketball season is only a month away, and we learned on Tuesday that L.A. Laker Russell Westbrook listed his Brentwood mansion for sale. Asking for $29.995 million, he bought the 13,500-square-foot home for $19.75 million in 2018. Scuttlebutt went into overdrive regarding the athlete’s future with the team, and “spokespeople for Mr. Westbrook declined to comment.” (FanNation)

5) We’re number 34! Last Tuesday, a list of the best and worst places to retire was released. Experts considered good value for the consumer dollar, good weather, leisure activities and access to good healthcare. Los Angeles came in 34th place out of 182. San Francisco beat us and is in 6th place. San Diego is in 23rd place. Number one is Charleston, SC. At the bottom of the list is Bridgeport, CT. (WalletHub)

📆 Today in Los Angeles:

• Lunch & Learn at the El Nido Family Centers Early Head Start (noon)
• Isaac Lewis & Dosey perform at Adults Only (7 p.m.)
• Kendrick Lamar performs at the Crypto.com Arena (7:30 p.m.)
• Clinic w/Lost Desert at Station 1640 (10 p.m.)
• Riff Raff Comedy Show at Third Wheel Hollywood (10 p.m.)

📓 From my notebook:

• There is now an agreement between L.A. County and the L.A. Alliance – a landmark deal that will help improve cooperation between the city of Los Angeles and the county of LA on homelessness strategies. (Mayor Eric Garcetti via Instagram)
• Acceleration Days are coming to Los Angeles Unified! This new initiative will help students accelerate their learning and recover from the impacts of the pandemic with personalized classroom instruction. (Los Angeles Unified via Instagram)
• Undersheriff Mukami along with LASD deputies, Riverside Sheriff Department, and Long Beach PD were honored to escort Deputy Andre Myers’ daughter to her first day of school. Deputy Andrew Myers passed away in 2020. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department via Facebook)
• A Westwood South-Tennessee neighbor noticed that the FOR LEASE signs are no longer on LENNY'S deli. Does anyone know what is happening to the property? (Nextdoor)
• Our Silver Lake Micheltorena warns that he and his little dog were charged by a coyote the size of an average German Shepherd. The largest one they've ever seen in decades of hiking in LA. (Nextdoor)

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You're officially in the loop for today! I'll catch up with you bright and early tomorrow with your next update.

— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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