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On February 27, 1979, James Hooper, an Arcadia mailman, entered an Arcadia residence through a window when he heard moaning inside. An elderly woman, living alone, had fallen and broken her hip. On February 26, 1981, Hooper again heard moaning sounds at the same residence and entered to find the same woman had again fallen. She was taken to the hospital.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2273
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1981
Pages
p. A-7
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1981
Pages
p. A-7
Subjects
Postal Service - Hooper, James
Item ID
2242AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Services were held Wednesday for George Robert Secrest, a retired police sergeant of the Arcadia Police Department, who died June 9. Secrest had been a law enforcement officer for 26 years. Recently he had been employed by Huntington Bank.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2250
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 17, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 17, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Police - Secrest, George Robert
Item ID
2223AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Profile on centenarian Margaret Nahgy Davis of Azusa. In 1955, her husband Warren was hired to lead a new Church of God in Arcadia. During their first week in Arcadia, their third child Debbie had meningitis. After Warren died, Margaret remarried Ed Davis.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36357
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2022
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2022
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Centenarians
Davis, Margaret Nahgy
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Newspaper Index
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Susan Robertson, 48, a 4th grade teacher at Hugo Reid School for 26 years, died on July 4 after an 11-year battle with cancer. Mrs. Robertson graduated from USC in 1963 and worked for the Arcadia Unified School District, teaching at Hugo Reid School for her entire career.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2392
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 19, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 19, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Robertson, Susan
Item ID
2345AN
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Newspaper Index
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Don Fickas, president of the Arcadia Board of Education, in a brief statement Monday night blasted the majority of teachers who had boycotted the high school open house the previous week.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2840
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 26, 1984
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 26, 1984
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees
Item ID
2770AN
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Newspaper Index
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Jerry Van Wormer is retiring after 30 years with the post office. He reminisces about people and events at the post office over the years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2280
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 29, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 29, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Postal Service - Van Wormer, Jerry
Item ID
2249AN
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Newspaper Index
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Isabelle Stires is retiring after 19 years in the Arcadia Unified School District. This past year Mrs. Stires has been teaching second grade at Camino Grove School. Before that she taught second and third graded at Bonita Park School. She and her husband plan to travel.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2953
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 18, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 18, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Stires, Isabelle
Item ID
2880AN
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Newspaper Index
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Foul weather foils New Year's Day racing at Santa Anita Park--its New Year's Day racing was canceled 5 1/2 hours before first post after a light rain fell through much of Saturday's card and intensified throughout the night and into Sunday morning (January 1).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36406
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 2, 2023
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 2, 2023
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Rain
Weather
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Newspaper Index
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Husband shot wife and himself. Deaths of Arcadia couple--Paul Thornton, 58, and his wife Maria Lockwood, 54--ruled murder-suicide. He died of a gunshot wound to the head and she died of a gunshot wound to the chest. They had been married a little over a year. They lived in the block of 600 West Huntington Drive.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36056
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2021
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2021
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Deaths
Lockwood, Maria
Murder-suicide
Shootings
Thornton, Paul
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Dr. William A. Stark, 84, a retired dentist who had several medical issues, died after he and his wife endured months of pandemic visitation restrictions at his Arcadia nursing home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35863
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 8, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 8, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Deaths
Huntington Drive Health and Rehabilitation Center
Nursing homes
Pandemics
Stark, Melody Taylor
Stark, William A.
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón facing further opposition. Two more cities, Norwalk and La Habra Heights, are preparing to cast votes of no confidence in Gascon. So far, 18 cities have had similar votes, including Arcadia, Azusa, Beverly Hills, Covina, Diamond Bar, Hidden Hills, Lancaster, La Mirada, Manhattan, Palos Verdes Estates, Pico Rivera, Redondo Beach, Rosemead, Santa Clarita, San Gabriel, Santa Fe Springs, Temple City and Whittier.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35981
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 2021
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 2021
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2020-2029
Gascon, George
Los Angeles County District Attorneys
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Arcadia High students have fond memories of dead teacher. Ken Aberle, 42, died on June 2 at the City of Hope after a nine-month battle with leukemia. About 150 students gave blood at Arcadia Methodist Hospital.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2883
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 9, 1983
Pages
p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 9, 1983
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Aberle, Ken
Item ID
2810AN
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Food company executives Feng Wu Lam, who owns South El Monte based Golden Food, Inc. and her husband Wei Wen Wu, the company's manager, face insurance fraud, wage theft charges. They are accused of underreporting their payroll to workers' compensation insurance carriers by about $4.5 million between 2015 and 2019. They are both Arcadia residents.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36163
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Insurance fraud
Lam, Feng Wu
Wage theft
Workers' compensation insurance
Wu, Wei Wen
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia's proposed city budget will be about $24.4 million, up 8.9% from the $22.4 million 1985-86 budget, according to a report from City Manager George Watts.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper673
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 1, 1986
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 1, 1986
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
673AN
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Newspaper Index
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Every 10 minutes, someone in Los Angeles County dies from the effects of COVID-19. Melody Stark of Monrovia is shown in photo displaying a photo of her husband Dr. William Stark who was a resident of Huntington Drive Health and Rehabilitation Center in Arcadia. He died on November 22, 2020. Since March, 2020, 10,056 people have died from the coronavirus.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35887
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2021
Pages
p. A1, A11
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2021
Pages
p. A1, A11
Subjects
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Deaths
Huntington Drive Health and Rehabilitation Center
Pandemics
Public Health
Stark, Melody
Stark, William (Dr.)
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Mark Douglas Pryor, 19, arrested after an undercover investigation at Arcadia High School, has been placed on three years formal probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service work. He was convicted of selling less than an ounce of marijuana to a woman who turned out to be an undercover officer. He was the first of eight defendants arrested to raise an entrapment defense.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1468
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 4, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 4, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Drug Trafficking
Item ID
1467AN
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Newspaper Index
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A 90-year-old woman was found dead in her Arcadia home, an apparent murder victim.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1380
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Item ID
1379AN
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Newspaper Index
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A 58-year-old woman was raped and her house robbed by two males in their 20's.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1383
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1382AN
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Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice. School teacher found dead in her home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27655
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 30, 1985
Pages
p. A2
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 30, 1985
Pages
p. A2
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Higgins, Patty Elaine
Item ID
27854AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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College Fair held Tuesday night at Arcadia High School was a resounding success, but Open House the same night was boycotted by most of the teachers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2839
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 22, 1984
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 22, 1984
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees
Item ID
2769AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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