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Arcadia Unified appoints new Highland Oaks Elementary School principal, Debbie Champion.Champion began her career in Arcadia as a teacher at Holly Avenue Elementary School. She has been with the district for over 25 years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36477
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 11, 2023
Pages
p. 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 11, 2023
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Champion, Debbie
Educators
Highland Oaks Elementary School
Principals
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Chen Suen becomes first Asian American fire chief in Arcadia. He takes over from Barry Spriggs who retired November 8, after 29 years of service. Suen is an Arcadia resident. He emigrated from Taiwan. He graduated from Arcadia High School, and attended Loyola Law School, UC Irvine, and Santa Ana College, before spending the last 18 years with Arcadia Fire Department.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36371
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A7
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Chiefs
Arcadia Fire Department
Asian-Americans
Spriggs, Barry
Suen, Chen
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Muir High School in Pasadena names alum Lance Mitchell as the football head coach. Mitchell has been assistant coach for Arcadia High School the past 5 seasons.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36133
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 15, 2021
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 15, 2021
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Football
Mitchell, Lance
Muir High School
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Arcadia Unified School District to reconsider Apaches as mascot amid online petition drive, officials say it is on agenda. It is a revival of a 20-year-old controversy to remove Apaches name and imagery amid a nationwide movement to erase offensive emblems. Shayan Farooq, a 2013 graduate of Arcadia High School, felt the issue needed to be addressed. Farooq started a petition at Change.org. AUSD spokesperson Ryan Foran said the issue will be addressed in its list of priorities after reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic and recent sexual assault allegations involving current and former students who were video recorded, without consent, having sex. Controversy surrounding the Apaches mascot dates back two decades when Native American activists protested the Apache Joe mascot at Arcadia school board meetings in 1999. Then Principal Martin Plourde sought the White Mountain Apache Tribe's blessing to use the imagery and tribal leaders approved, but many students at Alchesay High School (Arcadia High School's sister school on Apache reservation) found the mascot offensive and urged Plourde to change it. 2018 Arcadia High School graduate Yumei Lin is leading a Facebook group to change the emblem.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35782
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Arcadia High School mascot
Farooq, Shayan
Lin, Yumei
Plourde, Martin
White Mountain Apache Tribe
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Decades-long debate over Arcadia High School's use of Apache imagery resurfaces. The controversy began in 1997. In the late 1990s, Native American activists threatened to sue Arcadia High School over the use of the Apache mascot. "Apache Joe" mascot is no longer used. In 2020, a year of massive protests and change in the United States, perhaps another look at the logo and name may be in order. Arcadia schools Superintendent David Vannasdall responded, in part, with why Arcadia High School continues to use the Apache name, citing the strong partnership between Arcadia High School and the White Mountain Apache Tribe, who granted the use of their name to the school. He said, regardless of the school's mascot name, he will continue to honor the relationship he and Arcadia High School have with the White Mountain Apache Tribe and is fortunate to call them friends. He believes revisiting this issue on a regular basis is wise.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35764
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 25, 2020
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 25, 2020
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Activism
Arcadia High School Apaches
Burstyn, Mark
Farooq, Shayan
Mascots
Native Americans
Vannasdall, David
Wang, Sarah
White Mountain Apache Tribe
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Arcadia High School takes first in the JPL Regional Science Bowl and is headed to nationals in April. See also Mountain Views News, p. 9, January 29, 2022.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36164
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 30, 2022
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 30, 2022
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Academic competitions
Arcadia High School
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Arcadia High School student Stanley Liu, in photo, entered and earned second place at the annual Los Angeles County Science Fair, which staged its competition online this year due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Liu's project was a microfluidic device capable of pinpointing biomarkers associated with disease in human blood plasma. He will be a finalist for the International Science and Engineering Fair.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35692
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2020
Pages
p. A3, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2020
Pages
p. A3, A4
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Epidemics
Liu, Stanley
Los Angeles County Science Fair
Pandemics
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Arcadia Unified School District's middle school choir lifts voices, spirits with a virtually performed video of The Lion Sleeps Tonight, directed by Amanda Svetich, the choir director and assistant orchestra director at Arcadia High School. It was recorded on Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35861
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 1, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 1, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Choirs
Svetich, Amanda
Videos
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Arcadia High School offers unique courses to provide further collegiate opportunity. For over 50 years, Arcadia High School has offered a variety of Career Technical Education (CTE) courses, allowing students to gain hands-on experience, such as in graphic design, engineering, computer science, dance, stagecraft, video production, and sports medicine.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36201
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 10, 2022
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 10, 2022
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Genite, Breanne
Mu, Ing
Nielsen, Matthew
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Casey Spencer of Arcadia High School is Athlete of the Week. His sport is baseball.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35973
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 2, 2021
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 2, 2021
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports
Athletes
Spencer, Casey
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Obituary/death notice. Former Chief of Staff of Arcadia Methodist Hospital Dr. William E. White has died.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36345
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
October 15, 2022
Pages
p. 1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Mountain Views News
Date
October 15, 2022
Pages
p. 1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
White, William E. (Dr.)
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Vine-watching student scientist Weber Lin, a senior at Arcadia High School, needs your like. He is in the final rounds of the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, an international science video competition funded by V.C. Yuri Milner. If Lin wins, Arcadia High School receives cash for new lab equipment and Lin will earn money toward college. He studies chirality.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36352
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 20, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 20, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Academic competitions
Lin, Weber
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One of the High School Athletes of the Week is Zoe Sprecher, from Arcadia High School. Her sport is golf and she is a junior. Includes her stats.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36542
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 13, 2023
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 13, 2023
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports
Arcadia High School students
Profiles
Sprecher, Zoe
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Obituary/death notice. Note: Thinger was an English teacher at Arcadia High School for 20 years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36491
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2023
Pages
p. A7
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2023
Pages
p. A7
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Thinger, Patricia Fosdick
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Arcadia High School names Eric Elias as head football coach. Elias is a former assistant coach and an Arcadia alum. He was offensive coordinator at Cantwell Sacred Heart this past season, and has had previous coaching experience at Buena Park, Schurr, and Arroyo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36664
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2024
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2024
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports--boys football
Coaches
Elias, Eric
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Ashley Reagan Dunster is the new principal at Holy Angels School in Arcadia. She is the youngest granddaughter of President Ronald Reagan. By columnist Anissa Rivera.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36557
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 8, 2023
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 8, 2023
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Dunster, Ashley Reagan
Holy Angels School
President of the United States of America
Principals
Rivera, Anissa
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Arcadia High School cancels season-opening football game against Muir High School after one of its players tested positive for COVID-19 and the school had to place the entire team in quarantine, confirmed athletic director Milica Protic.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35919
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 6, 2021
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 6, 2021
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports--football
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Pandemics
Protic, Milica
Public Health
Viruses
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Former Mayor, students reflect on continuing controversy over Apache imagery use at Arcadia High School.1342 people have signed petition to stop its use as a mascot.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35765
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 2, 2020
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 2, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Activism
Arcadia High School Apaches
Flanders, Jill
Mascots
Native Americans
Plourde, Martin
Vannasdall, David
White Mountain Apache Tribe
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Arrest made in Arcadia High School sexual assault investigation. 18-year-old former Arcadia High School student Dylan Chan has been arrested on allegations of sexual assault involving current and past students at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35767
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 2, 2020
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 2, 2020
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Chan, Dylan
Crime and Criminals
Sexual assaults
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Pacific League high schools still waiting for the go-ahead from Los Angeles County Public Health for school districts to resume athletic activity on school campuses. The Pacific League includes Arcadia, Burbank, John Burroughs, Crescenta Valley, Glendale, Muir and Pasadena high schools.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35808
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2020
Pages
p. B14
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2020
Pages
p. B14
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Pacific League
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