2009 In Pictures
The Year in Images seen though the lens of our photographers:
Mayor Bogaard’s 2010 State of the City Address Well Attended
“Charting a New Course” was the theme of Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard’s 2010 State of the City event Thursday, Jan. 28, at La Salle High School. After a poetry recital by Douglas Kearny and introductions by vice mayor Victor Gordo, Mayor Bogaard took the podium…with the good news and the bad news of the State [...]
Rose Bowl Recreation Loop Scheduled for Facelift
Pasadena’s most popular exercise track is scheduled for a facelift. Pasadena city staff will outline steps for improving the 3.3-mile Rose Bowl recreation loop during a community meeting Wednesday, Feb. 3, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Arroyo Room at Brookside Golf Club, 1133 Rosemont Ave. The meeting will be hosted by the [...]
Century 21 Village’s Linda Johnson Earns SFR Certification
Andy Bencosme, Managing Broker at CENTURY 21 Village Inc. recently congratulated Linda Johnson, veteran real estate agent for her new certification of SFR (Short sales And Foreclosure Resource.) Johnson has been with Village her entire career with Village has helped buyers & sellers not only in the foothill communities but also the outlying areas. [...]
Police Blotters January 4 – 11
Monrovia PD During the last seven day period, the Police Department handled 568 service events, resulting in 148 investigations. Following are the last week’s highlighted issues and events: Robbery / Assault with a Deadly Weapon On January 7 at 12:02 p.m., officers responded to a business in the 1600 block of South Mountain regarding store [...]
Searching for Gray Whales in Oxnard
It’s that time of the year again; time to gather the pod and head south from the cold waters of Alaska to the warm lagoons of Mexico for better food and spawning. This is of course, if you are a California Gray Whale. But since I’m not, I’ll just stick to watching the migration from [...]
Pasadena Independent – January 28th, 2010
Arcadia Public Library Concert Combines History and Music – Dissonance of War Shows up in Shostakovich Work
Paul Stein, the director of the Classical Kaleidoscope concert series at the Arcadia Public Library, explained to the full house in the Cay Mortensen Auditorium, that the music to be performed by the quintet would be Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet for Piano and Strings in G-minor. He explained that the music would be dissonant, [...]
Monrovia Man Arrested Following Monrovia Bank Robbery Attempt – Bomb Threat Apparently False
FEST (Foothill Special Enforcement Team) which includes members of Monrovia, Arcadia, Glendora and West Covina SWAT, arrest Joshua Locateil , 24, who allegedly barricaded himself inside the Citizens Business Bank in the 100 block of East Huntington Drive in Monrovia on Wednesday morning. The suspect was ordered to strip down to his boxers to ensure [...]
Suspect Detained Following Monrovia Bomb Scare Standoff
A bank robbery this morning at the Citizens Bank branch in Monrovia at the corner of Huntington Drive and Myrtle Avenue that turned into a bomb threat, with bank employees an patrons having been evacuated, has ended with the suspect being apprehended by Glendora and West Covina SWAT units. According to police, the suspect wrote [...]
