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The City of Arcadia will request millions in federal dollars for Arcadia's transportation and water needs. The city plans to act through Washington DC based lobbying firm The Ferguson Group. Other wish list areas in need of federal money are identified.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31336
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 28, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 28, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Federal funds
Ferguson Group, The
Lobbyists
Item ID
31531AN
Collection
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
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The U.S. Census Bureau opened its East Los Angeles office in preparation for the 2010 Census. The office at 1255 Corporate Center Drive will need 600-800 employees to gather information on residents that live roughly from Burbank to Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31367
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2009
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2009
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Jobs
United States Census Bureau
Item ID
31562AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The Westfield Group will acquire 15 department stores which are owned by Federated Department Stores, Inc., including stores in Arcadia and West Covina. Robinsons-May in Arcadia and Macy's in West Covina will become property of Westfield and converted for other uses.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29933
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2006
Pages
p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2006
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Business and Industry
Federated Department Stores, Inc.
Westfield Group
Item ID
30119AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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U. S. Forest Service officials met with cabin owners and residence permit holders to hear concerns regarding evacuation of the Big Santa Anita Canyon area.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29188
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Big Santa Anita Canyon
United States Forest Service
Evacuations
Item ID
29373AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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University of Massachusetts researchers studying the faults of the Los Angeles basin say strain is driving the ground higher as the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys are squeezed toward the northern mountains. The Raymond Fault lies beneath San Marino, Arcadia, and South Pasadena.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29658
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 24, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 24, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Raymond Fault
Earthquake faults
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Item ID
29843AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Aiad Barakat, 45, of Arcadia, whose application for citizenship has been approved by a United States District judge, is under appeal by the Bush administration. The Justice Department filed the appeal because of Barakat's alleged ties to a Palestinian organization believed to be terrorist.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30210
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 21, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 21, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Barakat, Aiad
Citizenship
George W. Bush Administration
Palestinians
United States Justice Department
Item ID
30397AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Clayton Phun, a medic on duty in Iraq, came home to surprise his family for the holidays. Mayor Gary Kovacic helped out.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29340
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Phun, Kenneth
Phun, Nancy
Phun, Clayton (Sergeant)
Iraq War
Medics
Servicemen
Soldiers
United States Army
Item ID
29524AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A USDA rule change went into effect Thursday requiring California to change the way meat and poultry packaging is weighed. It requires inspectors to use a dry tare form of testing in which all fluids within a package must be credited as part of its content. Tare is the weight of packaging and all materials, tags, clips, stickers, absorbent soakers. Consumers could be paying more for less meat at the market.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31252
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 11, 2008
Pages
p. A13
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 11, 2008
Pages
p. A13
Subjects
Los Angeles County - Weights and Measures Department (Arcadia, CA)
Meat
Poultry
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Item ID
31447AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Westfield Group, owner of Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita, plans to sue the City of Arcadia and developer Caruso Affiliated to prevent The Shops at Santa Anita, the outdoor mall, from being built.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30524
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Developers
Lawsuits
Malls
Mall war
The Shops at Santa Anita
Westfield Group
Item ID
30712AN
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Newspaper Index
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The United States Department of Justice made a formal apology in a letter to 27-year-old Joshua Connole for arresting him after sport utility vehicles (SUV) were vandalized at dealerships in West Covina, Monrovia, Duarte, and Arcadia. He is now no longer a suspect and lives in Oregon.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29804
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
United States Department of Justice
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Vandalism
Ecoterrorists and ecoterrorism
Connole, Joshua
Car Dealerships
Arson
Item ID
29989AN
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Newspaper Index
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Westfield Group, owner of Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita, has proposed two ballot measures for the November election. Westfield is gathering signatures for the two initiatives: 1) to mandate free parking at all large retail projects and 2) to ban large billboards. A poll of 300 registered Arcadia voters in February showed 74% support the free parking initiative and 62% support the billboard measure.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29945
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Ballot measures
Polls
Westfield Group
Caruso, Rick
Malls
Mall war
Item ID
30131AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Ultimate Automotive has been served with a lawsuit from Trevor Law Group accusing the shop of operating without a license. The law firm based in Beverly Hills is filing frivolous suits with mainly small, minority-owned businesses especially automobile repair shops that lack resources to have a legal battle but will settle instead.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24649
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 13, 2002
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 13, 2002
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Lawsuits
Trevor Law Group
Arcadia Ultimate Automotive
Fraud
Item ID
24839AN
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Newspaper Index
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A public hearing was held in Arcadia to discuss possible improvements to the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. The hearing was led by A.G. Kawamura, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30131
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 13, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 13, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Kawamura, A.G.
Federal Farm Act
Food supply
Public hearings
Item ID
30318AN
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Newspaper Index
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Westfield Group is funding a new "grass roots" coalition to oppose the Santa Anita Park race track mall development by Caruso Affiliated. The coalition is called Arcadia First! but includes Westfield representatives, Westfield tenants and downtown businesses, and not only citizens, as the membership in a grass roots organization might suggest.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29573
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arcadia First!
Caruso Affiliated Holdings
Coalitions
Organizations
Mall war
Santa Anita Park race track -- parking lot
Shopping malls
Westfield Group
Item ID
29758AN
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Newspaper Index
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A profile on the Westfield Group that owns Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita and other malls in the San Gabriel Valley.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24885
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2003
Pages
p. C3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2003
Pages
p. C3
Subjects
Westfield Santa Anita
Westfield Group
Item ID
25081AN
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Newspaper Index
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A judge has disqualified the Los Angeles law firm Latham and Watkins from representing mall owner Westfield Group in its ongoing battle with developer Rick Caruso because Latham and Watkins had represented the Los Angeles Turf Club on an earlier development project in 1999-2000.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29853
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 2, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 2, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Latham and Watkins
Law firms
Los Angeles Turf Club
Mall war
Santa Anita Park race track parking lot
Westfield Group
Item ID
30038AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Trevor Law Group who sued thousands of small businesses including auto repair shops and restaurants may be disbarred.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25426
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2003
Pages
p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2003
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Trevor Law Group
Fraud
Lawsuits
Arcadia Ultimate Automotive
Item ID
25625AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Brian Simpson was arrested by Arcadia Police Department after allegedly trying to defraud the Foothill Federal Credit Union of $59,000 through a fictitious car loan. It was a sting operation by the Arcadia Police Department.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30074
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Simpson, Brian
Arrests
Crime and Criminals
Foothill Federal Credit Union
Grand theft
Item ID
30260AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A judge dismissed nine lawsuits brought by Trevor Law Group against automobile repair shops. Arcadia Ultimate is one of the auto shops that is involved.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25309
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Trevor Law Group
Arcadia Ultimate Automotive
Lawsuits
Fraud
Item ID
25507AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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