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Duarte Road, from El Monte Avenue to the western city limits, will have utility lines placed underground. The cost will be $2.3 million. The issue of undergrounding utilities came up during the January windstorm, when nearly 30 power poles were knocked down on Live Oak Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31932
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 4, 2003
Pages
p. 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 4, 2003
Pages
p. 17
Subjects
Construction
Power lines
Utilities
Item ID
32129AN
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Arcadia City Council approved the first of a projected series of ten annual 5% increases in the city water rate. Sewer and trash rates will also increase.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30394
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 20, 2002
Pages
p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 20, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Sewer
Trash
Utilities
Water
Item ID
30581AN
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Arcadia City Council to look at possible power and water rate increases during its mid-year budget review.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33287
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly,
Date
February 1, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly,
Date
February 1, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia city budget
Electricity
Utilities
Water
Item ID
33484AN
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Residential customers of Southern California Edison (SCE) may see increases of an average of 30% or more next year because of soaring fuel prices and costs to upgrade infrastructure.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31138
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 20, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 20, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Electricity
Energy
Power
Southern California Edison (SCE)
Utilities
Item ID
31332AN
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William Cottrell is charged in firebombing and vandalizing of sport utility vehicles and is denied bail.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27847
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Hummers
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Ecoterrorists
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Cottrell, William Jensen
Vandalism
Item ID
28044AN
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A $25,000 reward has been approved for information leading to an arrest of the ecoterrorists who attacked several sports utility vehicles in the San Gabriel Valley.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26178
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 27, 2003
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 27, 2003
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Hummers
Vandalism
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Ecoterrorists
Item ID
26378AN
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The FBI is tracking vandals who caused an estimated $2.5 million in damage across San Gabriel Valley area sport utility vehicle dealerships. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for these acts of ecoterrorism.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31844
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 28, 2003
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 28, 2003
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Vandalism
Item ID
32041AN
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Vendors and 2000 people attended the Southern California Utility Association's Information Fair. Arcadia's water department employee, Richard Reeley, raced to see how quickly he could change a water meter. The Fair was held at the Irwindale Speedway.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24529
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 20, 2002
Pages
p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 20, 2002
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Water Department
City employees - Reeley, Richard
Southern California Utility Association
Item ID
24719AN
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The city was awarded $300,000 by the federal government to be used on a project to improve traffic flow along the Santa Anita Avenue corridor. The project calls for installing an underground conduit and interconnecting twelve intersections.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30320
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 16, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 16, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Santa Anita Avenue
Traffic
Item ID
30506AN
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Authorities have released Joshua Connole of Pomona, a suspect in the August 22 vehicle vandalisms labeled by FBI as acts of ecoterrorism. More than $2 million in damage was caused by vandals claiming affiliation with the Earth Liberation Front. High-end sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and other vehicles at the Rusnak Mercedes Benz dealership in Arcadia, Advantage Ford in Monrovia, Clippinger Chevrolet in West Covina, and Duarte Mitsubishi were torched and spray painted.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32124
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 18, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 18, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 15
Subjects
Connole, Joshua
Crime and Criminals
Ecoterrorism
Sport utility vehicles (SUVs)
Vandalism
Item ID
32321AN
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The United States Department of Justice made a formal apology in a letter to 27-year-old Joshua Connole for arresting him after sport utility vehicles (SUV) were vandalized at dealerships in West Covina, Monrovia, Duarte, and Arcadia. He is now no longer a suspect and lives in Oregon.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29804
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
United States Department of Justice
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Vandalism
Ecoterrorists and ecoterrorism
Connole, Joshua
Car Dealerships
Arson
Item ID
29989AN
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Attorney Michael Mayock, representing convicted client Billy Cottrell, seeks a verdict reversal for the 2003 fire-bombing of sport utility vehicles (SUV) at a San Gabriel Valley automobile dealership. He says the jury did not know about Cottrell's Asperger's Syndrome, a neurological disorder. Cottrell's prison situation is 'nightmarish.'

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30243
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Prison
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
United States Court of Appeals
Vandalism
Item ID
30430AN
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A federal apeals court overturned William Cottrell's (aka Billy Cottrell), convictions on two counts of arson for his role in the 2003 torching of several sport utility vehicles (SUV) at San Gabriel Valley car dealers, attacks authorities blamed on a radical environmentalist group. The court ruled that the judge in his trial should have allowed testimony regarding Cottrell's Asperger's Syndrome, a disability that could have affected the jury's decision.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31675
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arson
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Trials
Vandalism
Item ID
31873AN
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On March 5, 2005, the city will hold a community art project to decorate 6 by 6 inch tiles that will be affixed to the northwest exterior wall of the Arcadia Public Library. The theme is "Arcadia is..." The project is limited to 200 tiles.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29424
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Public art projects
Arcadia Public Library - 2001 - 2010
Tile painting
Item ID
29608AN
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Arcadia Cty Council Members accept the resolution for the Gold line to run through Arcadia, but oppose the tracks running at streel level through the city.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper23588
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 26, 2002
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 26, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Gold Line, Public Transportation
Item ID
23796AN
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Friends of the Arcadia Public Library Bookstore will feature a non-fictioin selection of more than 3500 donated books from a local estate.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24774
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2002
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2002
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Friends of the Arcadia Public Library
Item ID
24968AN
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Arcadia Transit funding has been approved. Arcadia Transit is a point-to-point van service, in operation since 1975.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30350
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 23, 2002
Pages
p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 23, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia Transit
Public transportation
Item ID
30536AN
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Federal lawmakers are concerned about the vehicle vandalism and danger to the environment caused by ELF.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26241
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 10, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 10, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Hummers
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Vandalism
Ecoterrorists
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Item ID
26442AN
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The Arcadia Public Library is not responsible for children left alone at the library by their parents. The library is not a public babysitting service.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27432
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 2, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 2, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library-2000-2009
Item ID
27629AN
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The city has hired an outside consultant, Cooperative Personnel Services, to look at the Arcadia Public Library and make recommendations on upgrading of services.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27706
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 28, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 28, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library-2000-2009
Item ID
27903AN
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