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A new Sav-on drug store will open at Fifth Avenue and Foothill Boulevard in Arcadia, the former location of Foothill Gym.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30032
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 23, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 23, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Business and Industry
Sav-on Drugs
Drug Stores
Pharmacies
Item ID
30219AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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End of an era--Colonial Pharmacy in Arcadia succumbs to a difficult economy. Arcadia's oldest pharmacy, Colonial Pharmacy, which has been serving the community since 1939, will be closing. Owner Mark Burstyn (photo) has worked there since October 1990.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32866
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 8, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 18
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 8, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 18
Subjects
Business and Industry
Burstyn, Mark
Colonial Pharmacy
Drug Stores
Pharmacies
Item ID
33063AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Dick Martinez was presented the Rotary Club prestigious "Service Above Self " award. He is one of only 150 worldwide to receive that honor this year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27463
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 13, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 13, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Organizations - Rotary Club
Martinez, Dick
Item ID
27660AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Assistance League of Arcadia's puppet show to be featured at California Retired Teachers Association. Photo. Charlene Martinez, Diane Lucas, Carol Misakian, and Shary Devore.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34185
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 4, 2015
Pages
p. 4
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 4, 2015
Pages
p. 4
Subjects
Assistance League of Arcadia
Devore, Shary
Lucas, Diane
Martinez, Charlene
Misakian, Carol
Organizations
Item ID
34379AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School students and staff, Mr. Christopher Schultz (Track and Field coach), aid victims of Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm that struck the coast of South Texas.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34979
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 14, 2017
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 14, 2017
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Arcadia High School teachers
Humanitarian aid
Schultz, Christopher
Item ID
35169AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia Board of Education promised parents and supporters of former teacher Sandra Ragusa a statement on why she was not allowed to withdraw her resignation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30624
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 17, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 17, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Board of Education
Ragusa, Sandra
Ragusta, Sandra (spelling is not certain, see Arcadia Weekly, October 10, 2002, p. 1)
Item ID
30816AN
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New Arcadia City Council member April Verlato brings a new voice. She is a lawyer born and raised in Arcadia. She has been an activist against mansions. She is president of Downtown Arcadia Improvement Association (AIA). Her goals for her time in office are 1) to address the uptick in residential burglaries and 2) to improve Arcadia's business districts.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34571
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 26, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 26, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 16
Subjects
Arcadia City Council members
Downtown Arcadia Improvement Association (AIA)
Verlato, April
Item ID
34763AN
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Newspaper Index
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Christina Farrell, former Arcadia High School student and member of the Pasadena Rose Court, looks back at her year and what she learned as a Tournament of Roses princess.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27153
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 11, 1999
Pages
p. 31
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 11, 1999
Pages
p. 31
Subjects
Farrell, Christina
Tournament of Roses
Item ID
27351AN
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Newspaper Index
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The city is fighting against paying an additional $400,000 in legal costs to Sully-Miller's attorney for the Downtown 2000 project in which the city cancelled the contract with Sully-Miller and settled for $1.25 million.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26322
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 4, 1998
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 4, 1998
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Downtown 2000
Lawsuits
Item ID
26523AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Peggy Zabel, a computer aide at Hugo Reid Elementary School, went on a road trip on historic Route 66. The trip totaled 6,240 miles and she e-mailed her journal and photos to students at Hugo Reid Elementary School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30247
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 25, 2002
Pages
p. 8
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 25, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Route 66
Travel
Zabel, Peggy
Item ID
30434AN
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Newspaper Index
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Virginia Brown recalls memories of early Arcadia having chicken farms everywhere. She has lived in Arcadia since her birth in 1917. Her father Scott Lee came to Arcadia in 1907 to dig water wells. Lee was a graduate of Throop Institute, which became California Institute of Technology. Her mother was Delia Chandler. Virginia Brown talks about where her family lived and her family's friendship with Anita Baldwin. The article includes a photo of Virginia Brown and her parents.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31810
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 14, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 17
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 14, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 17
Subjects
Brown, Robert
Brown, Virginia - biography
Chandler, Delia
Lee, Scott
Item ID
32007AN
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Nadia Lanyi celebrated her 105th birthday. She lives at Arcadia's Vista Cove. She is originally from Lithuania and lived in New York for most of her life. She has lived in this area for 14 months.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32329
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 17, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 13
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 17, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Centenarians
Lanyi, Nadia
Item ID
32528AN
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Newspaper Index
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The 49th Annual Pasadena Showcase House of Design "Empty House Party" draws a crowd of nearly 500 design enthusiasts and architecture aficionados in Arcadia, at the showcase home designed by architect Roland E. Coate, Sr. The house was built in 1941 for furniture executive C. Lawrence Barker, of the former furniture company Barker Brothers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33370
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 7, 2013
Pages
p. 7
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 7, 2013
Pages
p. 7
Subjects
Barker, C. Lawrence
Charities
Coate, Roland E., Sr.
Gotch, Donna
Marksbury, Beverly
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts (PSHA)
Item ID
33566AN
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20-year-old man Jason Scott Gustin found guilty of attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend in Arcadia. On August 22, 2016, according to testimony at trial, Gustin met near Arcadia and sat in his car to talk when he pulled out a knife and slashed her throat and then began strangling her. As the victim tried to escape, he stabbed her multiple times. She ran away to a nearby convalescent home. He was arrested a short time later after he showed up at his mother’s workplace in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35297
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gustin, Jason Scott
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
35486AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Murder victim identified as Chyong Jen Tsai. Her body was found in the 300 block of East Forest Avenue, outside her house in the garden.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35508
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. 15
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Chyong, Jen Tsai
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia's K-9 Zoli gets his own opioid overdose kit. It contains items which will aid in saving Zoli's life, if he encounters this dangerous narcotic.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35164
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2018
Pages
p. 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2018
Pages
p. 11
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department-K-9 Unit
Officer Zoli
Item ID
35353AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A profile of Peter C. Atkins, the new chief executive officer of the Arboretum.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26871
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 25, 1999
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 25, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Atkins, Peter C.
Arboretum
Item ID
27071AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia kicks off 2020 City Council election. Final candidates in District 1 are Mayor April Verlato running for reelection and newcomer Yuli J. Sira. Verlato is currently on the last year of her first term on city council and she as elected mayor her last year. She is an attorney with Verlato and Roberts law firm in Arcadia. She is a native of Arcadia, with a long list of endorsements, including former mayors of Arcadia. Sira is a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker. District 4 has two candidates--longstanding council member and former mayor Peter Amundson and newcomer Paul Cheng. Amundson has completed three terms on City Council and served twice as mayor. He is an Arcadia native, with a long list of endorsements. Paul P. Cheng is a highly publicized attorney specializing in business operations and commercial realty transactions. He previously ran for Arcadia City Council in 2010. Also up for reelection is City Clerk Gene Glasco. He is running unopposed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35641
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 23, 2020
Pages
p. 2
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 23, 2020
Pages
p. 2
Subjects
Amundson, Peter
Cheng, Paul
City Council Elections-2020
Glasco, Gene
Sura, Yuli J.
Verlato, April
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Newspaper Index
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Nadya Lanyi, an Arcadia resident, celebrates her 107th birthday. She lives at Vista Cove.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33372
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Centenarians
Lanyi, Nadya
Item ID
33568AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Resident Margaret Root has filed suit against Brookside Properties for causing water damage to her stucco house.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29323
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Brookside Properties
Lawsuits
Property Damage
Root, Margaret
Item ID
29507AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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