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Arcadia considers joining Monrovia in reviving the Blue Star Program, in which families of men and women in the armed forces can display a symbol of that fact on their home. The matter will be put on a city council agenda in the future.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33223
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 4, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 4, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia City Council Meetings
Blue Star Program
Military
Item ID
33420AN
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A memorial fund was set up to help the family of 3-year-old Talmin Moye II (Jr.) who was killed in a car crash when Sara Bravo was driving a stolen Acura when being pursued by Arcadia Police.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29821
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2005
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p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2005
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Moye, Talmin (II or Jr.)
Bravo, Sara
Arcadia Police Department
Car chases
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Memorial funds
Item ID
30006AN
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Newspaper Index
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A new magazine called "Atomic Ranch" will be dedicated to the boxy tract homes built after World War II and found in Arcadia, Duarte and Hastings Ranch and east Pasadena.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Housing
Item ID
27584AN
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Newspaper Index
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Gracie Gao, 57, and Steve Wang, 58, were arrested on suspicion of operating a house of prostitution on the 200 block of West Palm Avenue in Arcadia. Gao and Wang were booked on a misdemeanor charge and later released on $500 bail. The arrests at the well-kept ranch-style house surprised neighbors.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Brothels
Crime and Criminals
Gao, Gracie
Prostitution
Wang, Steve
Item ID
31506AN
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Richard Russo, 50, of Arcadia, surrendered to police after an all-night standoff at his home on Arbolada Drive. In the morning Carmen Russo was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds and Richard Russo was arrested. Two children ages 6 and 11 are staying with family.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29662
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 31, 2005
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 31, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Russo, Richard
Russo, Carmen
Crime and Criminals
Murders
Russo murder
Item ID
29847AN
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Newspaper Index
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A home built by the Barker family of Barker Brothers fame will be the Pasadena Showcase House of Design. Designed by architect Roland Coate in the early 1940's, the house sits on a large corner lot in the Upper Rancho area of Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper18745
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2000
Pages
p. D1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2000
Pages
p. D1 w/photo
Subjects
Historic houses
Item ID
18989AN
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Local residents and merchants have bought commemorative street banners which bear the inscription "Celebrating Arcadia's Centennial: 1903-2003" alongside their own name. Banners will be up January 1 and will hang until December 31, 2003.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2002
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Centennial Celebrations, 2003
Item ID
24841AN
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The City Council voted unanimously to expand design review for single-family homes citywide. It is the latest effort in the fight against boxy mansions being built in Arcadia. The review board thinks Asian families like the big houses and the Asian families say they do want to fit in with the community.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Mansions
Developers
Architecture Design Review
Houses
Item ID
29959AN
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Arcadia Police are looking for three men who broke into a home and robbed a family at gunpoint.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29175
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 30. 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 30. 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Armed robbery
Home-invasions
Item ID
29360AN
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An Arcadia family was terrorized and victimized at gunpoint in a home invasion robbery. The robbers choked the father of the family until he gave them cash and threatened to return to kill the family if they called police. The robbery occurred in the 100 block of West Forest Avenue. It is not known if this crime is related to the robbery of an elderly couple in Arcadia last week.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31829
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 30, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 30, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Robbery
Item ID
32026AN
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Plans for the Arcadia Skate Park (skatepark) are put on hold when bids for it exceeded the project's budget.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper23590
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 2002
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Skate Park (Skatepark)
Item ID
23798AN
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San Gabriel Valley home values went up in May, the third month in a row in which median home prices rose across the state. Arcadia had the highest median price at $700,000. A chart compares SGV cities.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31540
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2009
Pages
p. A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2009
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Home prices
Housing
Item ID
31736AN
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Newspaper Index
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The history of local restaurant The Derby, since it was originally founded in 1922 as Proctors Tavern, to being bought by jockey George Woolfe in 1938, then sold to Dominic and Lorene Sturniolo, or Sturinolo (article has it spelled both ways) is presented. See VF "Restaurants, Bars, etc." for copy of article.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30533
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 15, 2002
Pages
p. 12
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 15, 2002
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Business and Industry
The Derby
Restaurant reviews
Restaurants
Item ID
30721AN
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Home sales rise sharply in February with a 69.3% increase in sales in Los Angeles County over the same period a year ago. People are buying up foreclosed homes as prices drop in the San Gabriel Valley. Arcadia home prices came down 6.6%, whereas Azusa's home prices fell 45.3%. The median price of a single family home in the county was $298,000 in February, compared with $465,000 last year. Arcadia's median home price was the highest in the San Gabriel Valley, at $635,000. A chart of February median home prices is shown.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Foreclosures
Homes
Housing
Real estate market
Item ID
31610AN
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Arcadia police surrounded a home in the 1700 block of Mayflower Avenue in a 7-hour standoff with an armed suspect believed to be threatening suicide and harm to other people in the house. Herb Rodrigues said the alleged gunman was his girlfriend's son. When police entered the house, only an elderly man was there, alone. The suspect had fled.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31537
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2009
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2009
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department SWAT
Rodrigues, Herb
Item ID
31733AN
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Arcadia's transportation program has just put into service four new 20-passenger Dial-A-Ride buses. Four additional new buses will be added later this month.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 13, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 13, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Transportation
Item ID
27659AN
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Richard Baisner, an Arcadia man with a history of mental health issues, was shocked by Pasadena police with a Taser weapon during an arrest. He died about an hour later.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30607
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Baisner, Richard
Deaths
Pasadena Police
Taser stun guns
Weapons
Item ID
30795AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency will review proposals by four developers interested in building multi-family homes on Live Oak Avenue for low-income residents.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26169
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Live Oak Avenue
Housing
Redevelopment
Item ID
26369AN
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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
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Home prices in California have dropped almost 42% from a year ago, November, as a glut of foreclosed homes drove first-home buyers to buy on the bottom end. Statewide, a single-family home cost a median price of $285,680. In Los Angeles County, the San Gabriel Valley housing market is in bad shape. According to the California Association of Realtors, prices around the San Gabriel Valley ranged from lows of $256,000 in La Puente to highs of $692,500 in Arcadia, which saw a slight drop of only 4.8%, compared to last year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31331
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 24, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 24, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Economy
Housing
Real Estate
Recession
Item ID
31526AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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