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Arcadia Rotary Club and other clubs in the United States raised $30,000, which was matched by the Rotary Foundation to total $330,000. The money will go to college loans for students in a southwest Ugandan village.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 12, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 12, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Rotary Club
Grants
Non profit organizations
Service clubs
Uganda - Africa
Item ID
30261AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Board of Education of the Arcadia Unified School District has approved a one year contract with the teachers union that includes a 5 percent pay raise.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30888
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Labor contracts
Teachers union
Item ID
31076AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School teacher Kevin Fox is in a photograph with the 24-member Constitution Team. They placed fourth statewide in a competition in Sacramento last week.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Fox, Kevin
Arcadia High School
Constitution Team
Academic competitions
Item ID
29583AN
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Newspaper Index
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New law classes will be given at Arcadia High School. A list of other new classes and other points of discussion from the Board of Education meeting are included.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30352
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 30, 2002
Pages
p. 8
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 30, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Classes
Curriculum
Item ID
30538AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia Board of Education adopted a policy to prohibit the use of anabolic steroids and other controlled substances. It goes further to hold coaches responsible for educating students and parents about the dangers of using uncontrolled substances and diet supplements.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 10, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 19
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 10, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 19
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District - Board of Education - policies
Athletes
Performance enhancing drugs
Steroids
Item ID
31400AN
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Newspaper Index
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Among West Valley districts, the Arcadia Unified School District had the highest percentage of English-proficient students. 64% of the district's English learners scored at the "proficient" level on the English Language Development Test. That compares to 36 percent of English learners statewide who scored proficient on the test.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
English as a Second Language (ESL)
English Language Development Test
Item ID
31178AN
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Newspaper Index
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Michael Lieber of Arcadia has been awarded the 2005 MERIT Award, a total of $3.25 million, to fund his cancer research involving "human V(D)J recombinase in neoplastic and primary cells."

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 2005
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 2005
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Awards-honors-recognitions
Grants
Lieber, Michael
Medical research
MERIT Award
National Cancer Institute
Professors
Scientists
Item ID
29781AN
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Newspaper Index
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Area school districts did better than average on the 2004 California English Language Development Test of English learning students. Sixty-six percent of students tested in Arcadia Unified School District scored in the advanced categories.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
English language tests
Arcadia Unified School District
Proficiency, skills and fluency
San Gabriel Valley schools
California English Language Development Test
Item ID
29582AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia students participate in the National Science Bowl at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Photo and caption only.)

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Lam, Sam
Lam, Anson
Leung, Brian
Lin, Jonathan
National Science Bowl
Academic competitions
Item ID
30104AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Transit funding has been approved. Arcadia Transit is a point-to-point van service, in operation since 1975.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 23, 2002
Pages
p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 23, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia Transit
Public transportation
Item ID
30536AN
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Newspaper Index
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Los Angeles County's unemployment rate rose to 5.5 percent in December 2005, up from 5.1 percent the previous month but down from 6.5 percent a year ago. Arcadia has a 2.7 percent jobless rate.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 21, 2006
Pages
p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 21, 2006
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Los Angeles County
Jobless rates
Unemployment
Item ID
30066AN
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Newspaper Index
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Los Angeles County's unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 percent in November, down from 4.3 percent the previous month and 5.3 percent a year earlier. Arcadia's jobless rates appears on the chart at 2.1 percent, along with rates for other cities.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30331
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 23, 2006
Pages
p. Local 3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 23, 2006
Pages
p. Local 3
Subjects
Jobless rates
Los Angeles County
Unemployment
Item ID
30517AN
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Newspaper Index
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In Newsweek's 2003 Challenge Index, of the 739 schools rated and billed as the "best high schools in America," Arcadia High School ranked #221.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25626
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 30, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 30, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
25826AN
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Grant Chu, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ming R. Chu of Arcadia, received a Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 20, 2002
Pages
p. 5
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 20, 2002
Pages
p. 5
Subjects
Chu, Grant
Graduations
Item ID
30580AN
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Newspaper Index
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Unemployment in Los Angeles County dropped to 5.2 percent in January 2006, down from 5.5 percent in December 2005. See Arcadia on chart.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29943
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 4, 2006
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 4, 2006
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Los Angeles County - unemployment
Jobless rates
Item ID
30129AN
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Newspaper Index
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Median home prices in California surged to a record $305,940 in March, up 19 percent from last year. In Arcadia, prices averaged $355,000, up 9.2 percent.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 16, 2002
Pages
p. 1, 8
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 16, 2002
Pages
p. 1, 8
Subjects
Homes
Real Estate
Item ID
30505AN
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Newspaper Index
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Levels of reported crime in most San Gabriel Valley cities are significantly lower than national levels, according to the FBI's 2001 National Crime Index. A chart shows statistics for Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 29, 2002
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 29, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime
Statistics
Item ID
24929AN
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Newspaper Index
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A shortage of trauma centers leaves people in the East San Gabriel Valley unprotected. Officials from the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments are upset that the valley received 1.4 percent of Measure B though it paid 19.8 percent of the tax.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 2004
Pages
p. A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 2004
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Trauma centers
San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments
Huntington Hospital
Measure B
Item ID
29513AN
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Newspaper Index
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The City of Arcadia expects to receive about $396,000 in federal funding for low and moderate income families in 2009. The Community Development Block Grant is not expected to change from what Arcadia received for the current fiscal year. The money might be used on a new bicycle facility installation project or the city's Housing Rehabilitation Program.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31353
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2009
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2009
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Community Development Block Grant
Federal funding
Monies
Item ID
31548AN
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Newspaper Index
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General information

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 3, 1934 p. 1 (elected)
April 15, 1936 p. 1 (re-elected)
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 3, 1934 p. 1 (elected)
April 15, 1936 p. 1 (re-elected)
Subjects
City Council, 1903 - 1969
Corby, Grant W.
Item ID
3785AN
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Newspaper Index
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