Featuring Los Angeles
... a neighborhood at a time ...

We think it's wonderful that the various neighborhoods around Los Angeles are finding ways to reach out to community members by using the internet. As more and more residents are connected on the web this will become even more important.

Many areas have e-groups, similar to the one we have at LACP, where individuals can quickly communicate information about local issues (please see about LACP e-group).

A community website can be a big boon to an area, serving as a one stop arena for all kinds of news and contact information, all readily accessible to anyone who cares to stop by. Community events, newsletters, listings of local businesses, emergency phone numbers and more are only a click or two away.

We thought we'd begin to feature such community websites as examples of how neighborhoods are using the Internet, and our inaugural featured website was one of the finest examples we've seen ... the Valley Village site.

Now we draw your attention to another. At this point, the City of Sierra Madre does not have a website, however, there is a one that serves as the unofficial community website. There are nearly 3,000 pages of Sierra Madre information and news.

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Sierra Madre

The webmaster of the Sierra Madre site, Bill Coburn, has chosen a format that makes the openning page feel like a newspaper. But don't let that fool you. There are layers and layers to this evergrowing grasssroots effort, all constantly updated. Web address: www.SierraMadreNews.net Thomas Guide coordinates: page 569, A4

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Valley Village

Webmaster Chick Ciccarelli has done a fabulous job, and deserves a lot of credit. There's obviously been a lot of attention to detail, clarity and ease of use. Please feel free to visit this site. Perhaps it will give you some ideas for your community. Web address: www.MyValleyVillage.com Thomas Guide coordinates: page 562, F3

If you'd like us to feature your neighborhood's website just send us an email through the link below, and tell us a little about it. We'll need the website's internet address (it's URL) and the contact info for the webmaster (email address and phone number) ... and a Thomas Guide coordinate would be appreciated.

We'll keep a running list of all the neighborhood sites we're sent!