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Santa Anita Racetrack back in the day. A stroll down memory lane courtesy of Arcadia Historical Society and Arcadia's Best. Photo shown of Clara Baldwin Stocker and her friends at her father's Santa Anita Racetrack in 1907. Clara Baldwin Stocker had a house on Foothill Boulevard and an establishment called "Clara Villa."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35354
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
December 22, 2018
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
December 22, 2018
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p. 6
Subjects
Baldwin, Clara
Baldwin Stocker, Clara
Clara Villa
Santa Anita Racetrack
Item ID
35544AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia firefighters helped raise funds for a muscular dystrophy fundraiser called "Fill the Boot" and were presented with a participation plaque by Megan Berry, Director for MDA, the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33530
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
June 22, 2013
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p. A6
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Mountain Views News
Date
June 22, 2013
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Department
Berry, Megan
Fundraisers
Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)
Item ID
33725AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Host Town Committee met with the Trinidad-Tobago Head of Delegation Candy Berman-Harper and Trinidad policeman and fireman Ferdinand Bibby. Arcadia is one host town for the upcoming Special Olympics, which run July 25-August 2. There will be 100 Special Olympians, coaches, and mentors from Trinidad-Tobago and Kyrgyz Republic staying in Arcadia and enjoying meals, programs, and tours around town. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 16, March 12, 2015.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34121
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
March 7, 2015
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
March 7, 2015
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p. 6
Subjects
Arcadia Host Town Committee
Berman-Harper, Candy
Bibby, Ferdinand
Harbicht, Bob
McCallum, Bruce
Special Olympics World Games
Van Kirk, Dick
Item ID
34315AN
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Newspaper Index
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Senator Dianne Feinstein weighs in on Santa Anita Park tragedies. In a letter to California Horse Racing Board, she called for racing to be suspended at Santa Anita Park after the deaths of twenty-three horses since late December.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35445
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 6, 2019
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p. B1
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Mountain Views News
Date
April 6, 2019
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p. B1
Subjects
Deaths
Feinstein, Dianne (Senator)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Item ID
35637AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia resident Sylvia Miller (photo) will tell California Retired Teachers Association about her years as a human "computer" at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), as recounted in Nathalia Holt's book The Rise of the Rocket Girls. Miller was one of many women scientists hired to compute data used to chart the path for NASA's early space missions.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34666
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
September 17, 2016
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p. 7
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Mountain Views News
Date
September 17, 2016
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p. 7
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California Retired Teachers Association
Miller, Sylvia
NASA
Scientists
Item ID
34858AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Transit app is now available. It has routes, schedules and bus arrival updates for the fixed route buses throughout Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35085
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
February 10, 2018
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
February 10, 2018
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p. 6
Subjects
Arcadia Transit
Smart phone apps
Transportation
Item ID
35274AN
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Newspaper Index
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger offers $20,000 reward in Arcadia investigation into heinous murder of Chyong Jen Tsai, a 76-year-old Arcadia woman, whose body was found on April 9, 2019 in her backyard in 300 block of East Forest Avenue. Her 2005 Lexus RX300 is believed to have been stolen from her home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35447
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 20, 2019
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
April 20, 2019
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p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Barger, Kathryn
Deaths
Murders
Rewards
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35639AN
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Newspaper Index
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An episode of cable television channel AMC's show "Mad Men," that was filmed on location at Rod's Grill on Huntington Drive in Arcadia, last October, was shown this past week on the network. The episode is called "Far Away Places" and stars Jon Hamm as Don Draper, and Jessica Pare, as his wife. In this period drama, they are supposedly at a Howard Johnson's motor lodge (motel and restaurant).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32960
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
May 5, 2012
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
May 5, 2012
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p. 6
Subjects
AMC Television series--Mad Men
Cable television
Hamm, Jon
Pare, Jessica
Rod's Grill
Item ID
33157AN
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Newspaper Index
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Jo Anne Seaman, who is blind, shared her personal stories and her red ham radio with Camino Grove Elementary School fourth graders (in photo with Seaman) Nathan Chien, Audrey Cho, Bradford Hunt, Jonas Yee, Elise Fong.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33708
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
December 14, 2013
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p. 1, 3
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Mountain Views News
Date
December 14, 2013
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p. 1, 3
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Camino Grove Elementary School students
Chien, Nathan
Cho, Audrey
Fong, Elise
Hunt, Bradford
Seaman, Jo Anne
Yee, Jonas
Item ID
33904AN
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Arcadia AAUW presents Carol Dennis with their 2012 Woman of Achievement Award. Past President Betty Harris received a certificate from the National AAUW for her 50 years of membership.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33130
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2012
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2012
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p. 6
Subjects
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Awards
Dennis, Carol
Harris, Betty
Organizations
Item ID
33327AN
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Cherry Liu, a Sierra Madre City employee was murdered August 1 in a tragic murder-suicide in the 800 block of Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia. Her estranged husband Mel Liu died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35246
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35435AN
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Newspaper Index
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Dr. Brent Forsee, Principal of Arcadia High School for seven years now, is being recommended as next Arcadia Unified School District Assistant Superintendent. If approved, Dr. Forsee would succeed Dr. Jeff Wilson, who is being recommended as next Superintendent of San Marino Unified School District.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35449
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
May 4, 2019
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p. 8
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Mountain Views News
Date
May 4, 2019
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District employees
Forsee, Brent
Wilson, Jeff
Item ID
35641AN
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Newspaper Index
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Sierra Madre resident George Maurer turns 90 years old. He has been honored by Arcadia Methodist Hospital.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33182
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
October 13, 2012
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
October 13, 2012
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p. 1
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Arcadia Methodist Hospital
Maurer, George
Item ID
33379AN
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Honorees of Arcadia Chamber 2015 Business Awards include Patricia Colonello of Mountain Views News. Business Person of the Year went to Kin Hui of Arcadia, CEO of Singpoli Group. Business of the Year went to Sierra Auto Honda, a family owned business. Raquel McLaughlin and her mother were awarded New Business of the Year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34257
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
July 18, 2015
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
July 18, 2015
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Chamber of Commerce
Awards
Business and Industry
Colonello, Patricia (photo)
Hui, Kin
Kovacic, Gary
McLaughlin, Raquel
Item ID
34451AN
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Newspaper Index
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Foothill Gold Line construction update. The Gold Line light rail from Pasadena to Azusa has now surpassed 85% complete. Overview of bridge construction, track completion, grade crossings, and train testing. Substantial completion of entire project remains on schedule for late September 2015, when the project as a whole will be turned over to Metro for pre-revenue service. Metro will decide when the line will open for passenger service.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34152
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 11, 2015
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p. 6
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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 11, 2015
Pages
p. 6
Subjects
Light rail trains
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Transportation
Item ID
34346AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia, Monrovia, and Duarte schools all forced to lock down this week due to phoned in threats of a gunman on 4 separate campuses. On Thursday, September 12, the caller contacted Arcadia Police Department, reporting "he was at Arcadia High School and that he was going to start shooting students with an assault rifle." A second call was received during the police search of the campus that told officers to back off or they would be shot. No suspects of weapons were found.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33615
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
September 14, 2013
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
September 14, 2013
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p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Arcadia Police Department
Item ID
33810AN
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Newspaper Index
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Moises Davila, a 20-year-old resident of Arcadia, and a part-time employee of the Arcadia Recreation and Community Services Department, was arrested for lewd acts with a child under 14. The suspicious physical contact allegedly happened between him and a female juvenile who was attending Afterschool Recreation Program at Longley Way Elementary School in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35408
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
March 30, 2019
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
March 30, 2019
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p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Recreation and Community Services Department
Crime and Criminals
Davila, Moises
Item ID
35600AN
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Newspaper Index
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Guilty verdict delivered to Lawrence Joseph Farry, 25, who was convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, in the death of former Arcadia resident Joan Milazzo in August last year. Farry struck Milazzo with his car in the Del Sur area of North County San Diego. Milazzo grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, graduated from Alverno High School in Sierra Madre and was a member of St. Rita Catholic Parish in Sierra Madre.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32962
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
May 19, 2012
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
May 19, 2012
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p. 1
Subjects
Deaths
Farry, Lawnrece Joseph
Milazzo, Joan
Trials
Item ID
33159AN
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Newspaper Index
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