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Arcadia Teacher of the Year for 2011-2012 is Tal Jones. He has taught in Arcadia schools for 27 years. He currently teaches Biology, Biophysical Science, Anatomy and Physiology, Leadership and Specifically Designed Academic Instruction Science at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32540
Newspaper
San Gabriel Valley Edition of the San Marino Tribune
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. S1, S6
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Newspaper
San Gabriel Valley Edition of the San Marino Tribune
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. S1, S6
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Educators
Jones, Tal--biography
Teachers
Item ID
32740AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Teacher of the Year for 2011-2012 is Tal Jones. He has taught in Arcadia schools for 27 years. He currently teaches Biology, Biophysical Science, Anatomy and Physiology, Leadership and Specifically Designed Academic Instruction Science at Arcadia High School (photo).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32539
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. 5
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. 5
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Educators
Jones, Tal--biography
Teachers
Item ID
32738AN
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Newspaper Index
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Floretta Lauber, 90, was frst female mayor of Arcadia. She died on August 1.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34638
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2016
Pages
p. A3, A11
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2016
Pages
p. A3, A11
Subjects
Arcadia mayors
Deaths
Lauber, Floretta
Item ID
34830AN
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Newspaper Index
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A 61-year-old construction worker who died after being run over by a bulldozer while working to level a vacant residential lot in Arcadia last month was identified as Sirpriano Dorame-Martinez of South Gate. The accident took place April 15 in the 900 block of Monte Verde Drive.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34554
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2016
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2016
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Deaths
Dorame-Martinez, Sirpriano
Item ID
34746AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia 16-year-old Roger A. Lewis, who was struck by a car while bicycling, has died. The accident occurred over the weekend at Santa Anita Avenue and Duarte Road. The driver who struck Lewis was driving a 2008 Chrysler Sebring. Lewis was a former student at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33257
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 25, 2012
Pages
p. A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 25, 2012
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Deaths
Lewis, Roger A.
Traffic Accidents
Item ID
33454AN
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Newspaper Index
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The ad (open letter to the Arcadia community) that was paid for by the three members of the Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education who are targeted for recall--Cung Nguyen, lori Phillipi, and Kay Kinsler--was printed in the Pasadena Star News August 11, 2013. Fired Arcadia High School cross country coach James O'Brien and his supporters say the letter was a public relations bid to derail the recall effort. See hard copy of the letter in VF "Arcadia High School." See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 1 and 27, August 15, 2013.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 13, 2013
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 13, 2013
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports--cross country
Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education
Gonzalez, Sergio
Kinsler, Kay
Nguyen, Cung
O'Brien, James
Phillipi, Lori
Wei, Esmond
Item ID
33781AN
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Newspaper Index
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Apache News at Arcadia High School sets journalistic standards. Apache News is a 15-minute weekly show that airs every Friday during fourth period. It is created by the Advanced Video Production class taught by Frank Nunez.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34835
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 23, 2017
Pages
p. 26
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 23, 2017
Pages
p. 26
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Atkinson, Will
Chu, Simone
Journalism
Nunez, Frank
Teachers
Television production
Salcido, Andre
Item ID
35026AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Individual students and the Arcadia Educational Foundation (AEF) raised about $840,000 for the Arcadia Unified School District (AUSD) during its annual appeal last year, enabling the district to reinstate 12 teaching positions. Budget cuts from the state have created "serious challenges" for Arcadia schools over the past 4 years, said AUSD superintendent Joel Shawn.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News,
Date
September 4, 2011
Pages
p. A6
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Pasadena Star News,
Date
September 4, 2011
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Arcadia Educational Foundation (AEF)
Arcadia Unified School District (AUSD)
Shawn, Joel
Item ID
32710AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia's parcel tax, Measure A, is validated. It gives schools $17 million over the next 5 years. Residents, with a few exceptions (seniors and those who receive Social Security), will have to pay an additional $228/year to help offset the fiscal deficit the Arcadia Unified School District faces. This Measure A was on the March 13 ballot.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32906
Newspaper
San Gabriel Valley Edition of San Marino Tribune
Date
March 29, 2012
Pages
p. S1, S3
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Newspaper
San Gabriel Valley Edition of San Marino Tribune
Date
March 29, 2012
Pages
p. S1, S3
Subjects
Arcadia Schools
Arcadia Unified School District
Elections--Ballot measures--Measure A
Item ID
33103AN
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Newspaper Index
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Floretta K. Lauber Museum Education Center (MEC) dedicated in Arcadia in her name, upon the 1 year anniversary of her death. Lauber died August 1, 2016 and the MEC broke ground September 29, 2013. She was Arcadia's first woman to serve as mayor.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34937
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 3, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 3, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage
Floretta K. Lauber Museum Education Center (MEC)
Item ID
35127AN
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Charles James Rouchka, an Arcadia resident who died in 2009, will be honored as a member of the Legacy Society of the San Gabriel Habitat for Humanity.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33497
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 9, 2013
Pages
p. 22
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 9, 2013
Pages
p. 22
Subjects
Awards
Rouchka, Charles James
Item ID
33692AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia couple Harry and Sarah Sneider are fitness trainers. Harry is 69 and Sarah is 66 years old. They say that fitness icon Jack LaLanne, who died last week at the age of 96, was their personal inspiration and friend, whose motivation encouraged them to expand their training business and better inspire others to reach their fitness goals.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32312
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Fitness trainers
LaLanne, Jack
Sneider, Harry
Sneider, Sarah
Sports
Item ID
32511AN
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Newspaper Index
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Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles celebrated the centennial birthday of the national organization with a party at the Arcadia Service Center, 100 E. Wheeler Avenue. Sylvia Wikle, 84, who has served for the past 75 years, and Victoria Hung Brooker, 15, in photo together.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32894
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Brooker, Victoria Hung
Girl Scouts of America
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles
Wikle, Sylvia
Item ID
33091AN
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Newspaper Index
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Bowling icon Jackie Henney, 93, continues to roll with favorite hobby. For more than 60 years, long-time Arcadia resident Henney has bowled, taught and organized leagues in San Gabriel Valley. She taught at now defunct Arcadia Courts bowling alley and Santa Anita Lanes, and other bowling alleys. See hard copy in VF People.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35126
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 17, 2018
Pages
p. A3, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 17, 2018
Pages
p. A3, A6
Subjects
Arcadia residents
Bowling
Henney, Jackie
Item ID
35315AN
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Newspaper Index
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Bowen Du, 19, an Arcadia man who was charged with felony vehicular manslaughter in the death of 16-year-old Arcadia High School student Alice Zhang, has pleaded not guilty. Du faces up to 6 years in state prison for vehicular manslaughter and up to 3 more years for causing serious injury to Zhang's friend Priyanka Patel, 16, of Upland.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32438
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 29, 2011
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 29, 2011
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Deaths
Du, Bowen
Patel, Priyanka
Pedestrians--safety
Traffic Accidents
Zhang, Alice
Item ID
32635AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School boys cross country team win their second consecutive CIF-Southern Section Division 1 championship and third Division I title in 4 years, last Saturday at Fresno's Woodward Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33694
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 1, 2013
Pages
p. B1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 1, 2013
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports--boys cross country
DeLaRosa, Estevan
Rocha, Phillip
Item ID
33890AN
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Newspaper Index
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Cherry Liu, a Sierra Madre City employee was murdered August 1 in a tragic murder-suicide in the 800 block of Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia. Her estranged husband Mel Liu died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35435AN
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Newspaper Index
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Holiday salon concert with Monrovia's Dr. Adam R. Kendall and Dr. Samuel W. Chung, a medical oncologist. Dr. Chung studied under Fung Ho of Arcadia and was concertmaster of Arcadia High School orchestra during his 4 years there.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35016
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 30, 2017
Pages
p. 4
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 30, 2017
Pages
p. 4
Subjects
Chung, Samuel
Concerts
Kendall, Adam R.
Musicians
Item ID
35207AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Unified School District releases records of two teacher misconduct investigations that resulted in dismissals. The first was 48-year-old Robert Harbicht, a substitute teacher who was found drunk at work. The second was Phillip Sutliff, dismissed from the district in 2007 and sentenced to 12 years in state prison for sexual misconduct (rape) with a girl at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32885
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 21, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 21, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Harbicht, Robert
Sutliff, Phillip
Teachers--misconduct
Item ID
33082AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Musical siblings Melodey and Marc Soong hold benefit concert for Michael J. Fox's (Team Fox) Parkinson's Disease research. They started piano lessons at Yamaha School in Arcadia when they were 4 and 3 years old, respectively.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34985
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 5, 2017
Pages
p. 9
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 5, 2017
Pages
p. 9
Subjects
Musicians
Parkinson's Disease
Soong, Marc
Soong, Melodey
Item ID
35175AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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