I remember riding the Expo Line on my way back home from school for the first time two days after it opened in 2012. It was hard to imagine that that same train in four years time would reach the sea and harder to imagine that 60 years prior, the Los Angeles region had done […]
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Westwood BID recap – May 19
The Westwood Village Improvement Association is a nonprofit organization tasked with improving the state of Westwood Village. Property and business owners created the association in 2011 to provide Westwood Village with functions the City of Los Angeles could not provide. Its board of directors meets monthly. Michael Beck, UCLA administrative vice chancellor, attended his first […]
Police find no threat in suspicious package outside school of medicine
Police determined the suspicious package reported at the David Geffen School of Medicine on Monday afternoon was not a threat. UCPD Lieutenant Richard Davis said someone reported a grocery bag outside the Jules Stein Eye Institute on campus about 4 p.m. Monday. The Los Angeles Police Department investigated the package and determined at 6:30 p.m. […]
Police close part of Westwood Plaza to investigate suspicious package
Police are investigating a suspicious package reported at the David Geffen School of Medicine on Monday afternoon. UCPD Lieutenant Richard Davis said someone reported a grocery bag outside the Jules Stein Eye Institute on campus about 4 p.m. UCPD arrived at the scene and contacted the Los Angeles Police Department to investigate the package. Westwood […]
Urban planning students suggest changes to Westwood Village Specific Plan
Urban planning graduate students suggested officials split Westwood Village into four different districts, among other suggestions, to better cater to students and other residents during a meeting Thursday. This quarter, architect John Kaliski led a class that aims to update the Westwood Village Specific Plan based on input from residents and businesses. The plan is […]
UCPD arrest one of two men who allegedly robbed student at gunpoint
University police arrested a man Friday for robbing a UCLA student on Hilgard Avenue last Thursday. The student told UCPD Thursday night two men threatened her with a silver gun on Hilgard Avenue near Manning Avenue and stole her cell phone. The men then ran east on Manning Avenue. UCPD found one man the next […]
Volunteer Center explains rationale for ending collaboration with WOMP
The UCLA Volunteer Center cut ties with an annual volunteering event in Westwood last year to focus its resources on more meaningful projects that engage the community, center officials said. Westwood community leaders organized the Westwood Organized Meaningful Projects from 2010 to 2014. The Volunteer Center was an official sponsor until 2014 when officials decided […]