Emma Cho

2 weeks ago | theoccidentalnews.com | Emma Cho

Sophomore year, Feb. 24, 2023, 3:37 a.m., I laid in my bed in Berkus Hall and wrote in my journal:“I love lacrosse…I still feel scared to play in games but I know I’m getting better & I’m having fun.”Looking back now as a senior about to graduate, nothing has changed — and yet, everything has. Still, no experience challenged me, helped me grow or brought me as much fun as lacrosse has in these past four years. When I first stepped onto Patterson Field in 2021, I was excited.

2 weeks ago | theoccidentalnews.com | Emma Cho

Right before Rosalind Wiseman ’91 was about to go home for Thanksgiving her first year of college, a group of her friends pulled her aside in her first-year dorm. In Pauley Hall, Wiseman said her friends shared that they had worked really hard to make her a nicer person — they were afraid that she would go back home to Washington,D.C. and go backwards.

1 month ago | theeastsiderla.com | Emma Cho |Jessica Doherty |Jennifer Rodriguez |Robert Fulton

If you like what you see, do me a favor and forward this newsletter to a friend and ask them to sign up using this link. I thank you in advance. Now on to today's news. • Got a story idea or photo to share? Submit it here📷 Eastside SceneEast Hollywood: A dog named Adelaide stops to watch the neighborhood tortoise, Mathilda feasting on some veggies. Thanks to I-Ching Lao for the photo. Go here to share your neighborhood photos or reply to this newsletter with your photo and details about the image.

1 month ago | theeastsiderla.com | Emma Cho |Jessica Doherty |Jennifer Rodriguez |Robert Fulton

If you like what you see, do me a favor and forward this newsletter to a friend and ask them to sign up using this link. I thank you in advance. Now on to today's news. • Got a story idea or photo to share? Submit it here📷 Eastside SceneEast Hollywood: A dog named Adelaide stops to watch the neighborhood tortoise, Mathilda feasting on some veggies. Thanks to I-Ching Lao for the photo. Go here to share your neighborhood photos or reply to this newsletter with your photo and details about the image.

1 month ago | theeastsiderla.com | Emma Cho

Eagle Rock -- When Alan Janoyan arrived at the Altadena location of Unincorporated Coffee Roasters on Jan. 7, conditions were already fierce. “Our furniture was flying away,” said Janoyan, who co-founded the business with Arthur Sohrabian in 2013. “The wind had already blown the walls of our shopping center down into our neighbors’ yards.”The devastation from the Eaton Fire, which erupted that evening, is unprecedented; 17 people died just in Altadena, and more than 9,400 structures were destroyed.