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A ninth historical marker, presented by Arcadia Historical society, will be dedicated on October 2 near the main entrance of the Los Angeles County Arboretum. This "History Lives Here" marker showcases vintage photographs and descriptions of the history and evolution of the Arboretum, which was once the home of Arcadia founder Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin. See hard copy in VF "Historical Society"

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33162
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
September 15, 2012
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
September 15, 2012
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p. 6
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Arcadia Historical Society
Historical markers
Los Angeles County Arboretum
Item ID
33359AN
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Santa Anita Racetrack back in the day. A stroll down memory lane courtesy of Arcadia Historical Society and Arcadia's Best. Photo shown of Clara Baldwin Stocker and her friends at her father's Santa Anita Racetrack in 1907. Clara Baldwin Stocker had a house on Foothill Boulevard and an establishment called "Clara Villa."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35354
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
December 22, 2018
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
December 22, 2018
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p. 6
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Baldwin, Clara
Baldwin Stocker, Clara
Clara Villa
Santa Anita Racetrack
Item ID
35544AN
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Arcadia Mayor's Breakfast / State of the City and Methodist Hospital update at Community Connections by Joan Schmidt. Mayor Peter Amundson was born and raised in Arcadia and spoke about what a great city it is to live, love, learn and leave a legacy. He spoke about the great Arcadia Public Library with its 42 high tech computers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35155
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Mountain Views News
Date
April 14, 2018
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p. B1
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Mountain Views News
Date
April 14, 2018
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p. B1
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Amundson, Peter
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Schmidt, Joan
Item ID
35344AN
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Arcadia Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast 2019: we are all Americans in a great city. Columnist Joan Schmidt recaps the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast and City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto’s State of the City Address. Pictured: Kari Helman, Jim Helms and his daughter.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35402
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
February 23, 2019
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
February 23, 2019
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p. 6
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Helman, Kari
Helms, Jim
Mayors
Schmidt, Joan
Tay, Sho
Item ID
35593AN
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Making the transition to Common Core State Standards. Arcadia Unified School District recruits in-house teachers, rather than hire outside consultants, to serve as classroom mentors for implementation. The standards align curricula across 46 states and District of Columbia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33647
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Mountain Views News
Date
October 12, 2013
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p. A8
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Mountain Views News
Date
October 12, 2013
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p. A8
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Arcadia Unified School District
Common Core State Standards
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33842AN
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Arcadia salutes "National Vietnam War Veterans Day" March 29, with a Certificate of Proclamation to Arcadia City Clerk Gene Glasco, the Founder of the Arcadia Vietnam War Memorial Monument in the Arcadia County Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35140
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Mountain Views News
Date
March 31, 2018
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p. 7
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Mountain Views News
Date
March 31, 2018
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p. 7
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Amundson, Peter
Glasco, Gene
Item ID
35329AN
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Bernie, a certified therapy dog of the Great Pyrenees breed, has died. His owner is Lois Longo. Bernie, the beloved dog, participated in the Barks and Books Program at Arcadia Public Library.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33357
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Mountain Views News
Date
January 19, 2013
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p. 3
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Mountain Views News
Date
January 19, 2013
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p. 3
Subjects
Dogs
Longo, Lois
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33553AN
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger offers $20,000 reward in Arcadia investigation into heinous murder of Chyong Jen Tsai, a 76-year-old Arcadia woman, whose body was found on April 9, 2019 in her backyard in 300 block of East Forest Avenue. Her 2005 Lexus RX300 is believed to have been stolen from her home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35447
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 20, 2019
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
April 20, 2019
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p. 1
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Crime and Criminals
Barger, Kathryn
Deaths
Murders
Rewards
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35639AN
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Dorothy Denne honored at Arcadia Police Foundation event, a fundraiser for K-9 Program. She has been a longtime volunteer at Arcadia Police Foundation and has spearheaded efforts to bring K-9 program back to Arcadia Police Department since 2015.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35586
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Mountain Views News
Date
October 26, 2019
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
October 26, 2019
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p. 6
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Arcadia Police Department-K-9
Arcadia Police Foundation
Canines
Denne, Dorothy
Dogs
Volunteers
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Martial arts champion, Hollywood actress, and stunt woman, Jing Li, is a martial arts instructor at Washu Action Star Academy in Temple City. She will be a guest at the Arcadia Branch of the American Association of University Women on Monday, November 12. She will present a program about Washu, an exhibition, and full contact sport, and view the documentary film "Autumn Gem," in which Jing Li has a starring role. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 12, November 1, 2012.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33185
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Mountain Views News
Date
October 27, 2012
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
October 27, 2012
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p. 6
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Actors and actresses
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Li, Jing
Martial arts
Item ID
33382AN
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Last week's fake bomb threat at Arcadia High School by a 14-year-old student, who was arrested, caused a lockdown of almost 4,000 students and personnel for several hours. This had a great impact on the school. Thousands of dollars of hot lunches were wasted, additional revenue was lost when all school activities in the afternoon and evening had to be canceled, and overtime had to be paid to maintenance workers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33163
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Mountain Views News
Date
September 22, 2012
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
September 22, 2012
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p. 6
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Arcadia High School
Bomb threats
Vannasdall, David
Item ID
33360AN
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Arcadia AAUW presents Carol Dennis with their 2012 Woman of Achievement Award. Past President Betty Harris received a certificate from the National AAUW for her 50 years of membership.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33130
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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2012
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2012
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p. 6
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American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Awards
Dennis, Carol
Harris, Betty
Organizations
Item ID
33327AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35246
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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
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p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35435AN
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City of Arcadia is highlighted as part of the Strong Cities-Strong State Campaign, a project of the California City Management Foundation and the League of California Cities.The city's profile is at www.strongcitiesstrongstate.com/city/arcadia. The website promotes city success stories with profiles of elected officials and city managers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33096
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Mountain Views News
Date
July 21, 2012
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
July 21, 2012
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p. 6
Subjects
City description
City government
Item ID
33293AN
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Honorees of Arcadia Chamber 2015 Business Awards include Patricia Colonello of Mountain Views News. Business Person of the Year went to Kin Hui of Arcadia, CEO of Singpoli Group. Business of the Year went to Sierra Auto Honda, a family owned business. Raquel McLaughlin and her mother were awarded New Business of the Year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34257
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Mountain Views News
Date
July 18, 2015
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
July 18, 2015
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p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Chamber of Commerce
Awards
Business and Industry
Colonello, Patricia (photo)
Hui, Kin
Kovacic, Gary
McLaughlin, Raquel
Item ID
34451AN
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Jo Anne Seaman, who is blind, shared her personal stories and her red ham radio with Camino Grove Elementary School fourth graders (in photo with Seaman) Nathan Chien, Audrey Cho, Bradford Hunt, Jonas Yee, Elise Fong.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33708
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Mountain Views News
Date
December 14, 2013
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p. 1, 3
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Mountain Views News
Date
December 14, 2013
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p. 1, 3
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Camino Grove Elementary School students
Chien, Nathan
Cho, Audrey
Fong, Elise
Hunt, Bradford
Seaman, Jo Anne
Yee, Jonas
Item ID
33904AN
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Two Arcadia homes used for indoor marijuana growing operations. Warrants were served and arrests were made in the 1800 block of South Baldwin Avenue and the 300 block of West Woodruff. A third house, on the 2700 block of Gilpin Way, was discovered to be an indoor marijuana cultivation house, too.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34077
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Mountain Views News
Date
January 24, 2015
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
January 24, 2015
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p. 6
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Drugs
Lau, Lan
Marijuana
Ming, Gao
Shen, Jia Hui
Wang, Tony
Item ID
34271AN
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Arcadia resident Sylvia Miller (photo) will tell California Retired Teachers Association about her years as a human "computer" at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), as recounted in Nathalia Holt's book The Rise of the Rocket Girls. Miller was one of many women scientists hired to compute data used to chart the path for NASA's early space missions.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34666
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Mountain Views News
Date
September 17, 2016
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p. 7
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Mountain Views News
Date
September 17, 2016
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p. 7
Subjects
California Retired Teachers Association
Miller, Sylvia
NASA
Scientists
Item ID
34858AN
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Senator Dianne Feinstein weighs in on Santa Anita Park tragedies. In a letter to California Horse Racing Board, she called for racing to be suspended at Santa Anita Park after the deaths of twenty-three horses since late December.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35445
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 6, 2019
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p. B1
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Mountain Views News
Date
April 6, 2019
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p. B1
Subjects
Deaths
Feinstein, Dianne (Senator)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Item ID
35637AN
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Street closures for the 59th Annual Festival of Bands Parade hosted by City of Arcadia. Baldwin Avenue between Huntington Drive and Naomi Avenue will be closed 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Duarte Road between Golden West and El Monte Avenue closed 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM, and Campus Drive between Santa Anita Avenue and Holly Avenue closed 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33262
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
November 17, 2012
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
November 17, 2012
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p. 6
Subjects
Festival of Bands Parade
Street closures
Item ID
33459AN
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