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Download the Smart PJ’S App, Parent, I’M Becoming More Scan the Code on the Jammies PRIVATE and More Preoccupied with and Let Technology Do the Bed- the Negatives A newspaper for the 90,000 readers in Larchmont Village, Hancock Park, Windsor Square, Windsor Village, Vol 1. No. 1 Wilshire Historic District, Country Club Park, Lafayette Square, Oxford Square, Brookside, Mid-Wilshire and Koreatown January 2015 Marlborough [CD 4 ELECTION] Head’s March Ballot Set With 14 Candidates Resignation By Colin Stutz Divides School Ledger Senior Contributing By Bruce Haring Writer Ledger Contributing Writer Fourteen candidates re- WINDSOR SQUARE—The main in the race to repre- elite private all-girls Marlbor- sent City Council District ough School is trying to move 4 (CD4), one of which will forward following one of the replace termed-out Tom La- rockiest periods in its 125-year Bonge in the March 3, 2015 history. election. Long-time head of school CD4 includes Hollywood Barbara Wagner resigned in Hills to Silver Lake as well as November in the wake of Miracle Mile, Hancock Park, damaging revelations on her Windsor Square and Larch- handling of a male teacher’s mont Village neighborhoods. alleged misconduct with a fe- Sherman Oaks is also part of male student. the district. Wagner has been with the Though the number had school for 26 years. Her resig- swelled to 18 as of November, nation is effective June 30th. several who had submitted But her continued presence at paperwork to the City Eth- the school has been a source of ics Commission to fundraise division. CD 4 CANDIDATES (top row, left to right): Jay Beeber, Teddy Davis, Sheila Irani, Step Jones; (center row, left to right): failed to qualify for the ballot. Fred Mariscal, Tomas O’Grady, Joan Pelico, Carolyn Ramsay; (bottom row, left to right): David Ryu, Rostom Sarkis- see MARLBOROUGH page 12 sian, Michael Schaefer, Steve Veres; (not pictured): Wally Knox and Paul Koretz see CD4 page 5 [CD4 ELECTION] Murder of School’s Expansion Including Rodney King, Community Policing Elderly Woman Demolition of Five Homes and Body Cameras First Since 2001 Approved in 1999 Candidates Speak on the LAPD and Ferguson By Bruce Haring By Colin Stutz, Ryan White, Bruce Haring and Ledger Contributing Writer Earlier Approval Predates Historic Status Bridgette Webb, Ledger Contributing Writers WINDSOR SQUARE—Police By Ameera Butt and Allison B. Cohen continue to seek information Since September, we’ve Ledger Contributing Writer in the murder of 86-year-old asked the Los Angeles City Antonia Maria Yager found WINDSOR SQUARE— Five Council candidates for Dis- dead in her home last month homes on Arden Boulevard trict 4 their thoughts on a va- in the 100 block of North will be torn down early this riety of subjects. Beachwood drive of multiple year despite a 2005 city or- This month, we ask the 14 stab wounds. dinance protecting homes candidates, who have qualified Yager’s body was dis- locally with architectural sig- for the March 3rd ballot, to covered by a male caretaker nificance. comment on policing in Los at about 7 p.m. December According to some, a Angeles in the wake of protests 22nd. Her murder is the meeting scheduled this month nationwide over the police Long time Los Angeles City Council- first violent crime in the area is the first notification of the shooting of Michael Brown in member Tom LaBonge will be termed since 2001. demolition, even though city Marlborough School, which is Ferguson, MO and the choke out in 2015. Fourteen candidates, in “We need help from the officials promised a public located just adjacent on South hold death of Eric Garner, in the city’s most costly and contested seat for the March 2015 election, are community,” said Lt. John hearing on the issue for last Rossmore Avenue. New York. We focused the looking to replace him. Radtke of the Los Angeles Po- fall. In 1999, the school candidates on the Los Angeles lice Dept.’s Wilshire Division. The homes will be demol- bought 11 properties on Arden Police Dept. (LAPD) regard- calation guidelines and their This crime is “very, very egre- ished as part of a more than Boulevard behind its campus ing officer-mounted cameras impressions of Chief of Police gious,” he said. decade old conditional use for expansion, according to (the first of such to be in place Charlie Beck. Yager lived alone since her permit approved by the city Mark Armbruster, an attorney in Los Angeles this summer); Candidate David Ryu of Los Angeles in 1999 for the possibility of new de-es- see ELECTION page 7 see MURDER page 12 see EXPANSION page 14 Retail Therapy: Hearth & Home: Focus on the Advertiser: Mother of Invention: Out and About: Akbar Abdi, the Salt and Straw, lines like The new “normal,” page 6 Jill’s Paint, worth the drive, page 9 Is there an app for parenting? 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