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An international businessman was abducted from his Arcadia home and later released the same evening after his abductors demanded he pay them $1 million. He was told that he would be contacted the next day with instructions about where to put the money, but no money has been paid. This is the first kidnapping of this type in Arcadia, although there have been four other kidnappings in the San Gabriel Valley since last October.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1395
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1394AN
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Newspaper Index
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An Arcadia man who didn't like a group of church Christmas carolers singing on his front lawn, brandished a gun at the group and threatened to kill them unless they got off his property. Police surrounded his house for an hour before he surrendered.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1370
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 24, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 24, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1369AN
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Newspaper Index
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Dial-a-ride prices may go up in July. At present they are 20-cents for Arcadia senior citizens and 50 cents for other residents.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1427
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 30, 1983
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 30, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Dial-A-Ride
Item ID
1426AN
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Newspaper Index
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Discusses the plight of an estimated 45-50 homeless people who live in Arcadia County Park and the surrounding community.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1729
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 22, 1987
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 22, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Homeless
Item ID
1728AN
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Newspaper Index
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A witness in the preliminary hearing of Brian Lawrence Snoke states that he was "going out to shoot these people" the morning that Scott Hutson, Christina Young and Robert Green were killed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27999
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 21, 1986
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p. A1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 21, 1986
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and criminals - murder
Snoke, Brian Lawrence
Huston, Scott
Young, Christina
Green, Robert
Item ID
28193AN
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Newspaper Index
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Article tells of three couples in the area who have been married over 50 years. Included are David and Dorothy Ryder of Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2400
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 15, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 15, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Ryder, David and Dorothy
Item ID
2353AN
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George Watts has been appointed acting city manager until the City Council names someone to replace Lyle Alberg who recently resigned. Watts, the city's assistant city manager, has served as acting city manager before. This time he has applied for the position.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1171
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 26, 1981
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 26, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
City Employees - Watts, George
Item ID
1170AN
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Newspaper Index
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Discussion of currents status of Kenneth Kirkpatrick's appeal to be reinstated as county chief probation officer. He was fired from that position in 1974.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 8, 1981
Pages
p. B-7
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 8, 1981
Pages
p. B-7
Subjects
Kirkpatrick, Kenneth E.
Item ID
1884AN
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Newspaper Index
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Glendora police have arrested a man believed to be the cat burglar who has plagued Arcadia and nearby cities in recent months.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1375
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 26, 1987
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 26, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1374AN
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Newspaper Index
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Former mayor Jim Helms proposed a charter change that would require a runoff election if no candidate for City Council received at least 50 percent of the vote. In the last election, no candidate received 50 percent.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper926
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1981
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Charter
Helms, James
Item ID
926AN
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James Bates of Arcadia was ordered to spend 6 months in county jail for the freeway deaths of Denise Wilson and David Hawkins. A two-year sentence was suspended. Bates is on five years probation and must abstain from use of alcoholic beverages. Though Bates had been drinking during the afternoon before, his blood alcohol level was only .03 after the 1 A.M. accident.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3514
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 28, 1982
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 28, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Traffic Accidents
Item ID
3399AN
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Arcadia Councilman Don Pellegrino has been cleared of charges filed more than two years ago that he had violated the Political Reform Act because of alleged conflicts of interest.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1032
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 22, 1983
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 22, 1983
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
City Council 1980 - 1989
Pellegrino, Donald E.
Item ID
1032AN
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Newspaper Index
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The 14-year-old son of Arcadia real estate developer Charles Bluth shot and killed one of 2 intruders who had broken into the Bluth home in the exclusive Whispering Pines neighborhood.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1368
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 21, 1986
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 21, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1367AN
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The Arcadia City Council will review a study of a possible ordinance pertaining to commercial signs in foreign languages at its July 2 meeting. It has been suggested that foreign language signs be translated into English.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2076
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 20 1985
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 20 1985
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Ordinances, Municipal
Item ID
2062AN
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Arcadia resident Dr. Donald Pinkel has been involved with children and cancer research for many years. He is currently senior physician and chairman of the division of pediatrics at the City of Hope in Duarte.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2200
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 13, 1980
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 13, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Pinkel, Donald
Item ID
2175AN
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Brian Lawrence Snoke of Arcadia is taken into custody for questioning regarding the murder of Scott Edward Hutson of Arcadia and former Arcadia residents Robert Mark Green and Christina Rae Young.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27943
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 30, 1986
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 30, 1986
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and criminals - murder
Snoke, Brian Lawrence
Hutson, Scott Edward
Green, Robert Mark
Young, Christina Rae
Item ID
28139AN
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Dexter Jones, 72, long active in Arcadia civic affairs, died at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. He was a local attorney, a former member of the Arcadia Board of Education and the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1960
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1986
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1986
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library - Library Board - Jones, Dexter
Item ID
1956AN
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Stuart Hamblen, a country-gospel singer and former Arcadia resident who raced his horses at Santa Anita Park has died at the age of 80.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1680
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1989
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Hamblen, Stuart
Item ID
1679AN
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Description of facilities at the Arcadia jail. It costs over $30 per day to keep a prisoner in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2286
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 2, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 2, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Prisons
Item ID
2253AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia won approval last week of a dial-a-ride program with 50-cent fares from the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission who agreed to let Arcadia use its Proposition A transit funds to subsidize the program's half-dollar fares until June.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1426
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 20, 1983
Pages
p. A-2
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 20, 1983
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Dial-A-Ride
Item ID
1425AN
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Newspaper Index
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