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The City Council gave preliminary approval Wednesday to an expansion of the Arcadia Public Library that may add 15,000 square feet of space at a cost of about $3.5 million.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 28, 1992

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 28, 1992

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library, 1990-1999

Item ID: 88AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

28 year old Arcadian Davy Lin, who seriously injured his spine in a motorcycle accident 4 1/2 years ago, will be one of about 60 disabled athletes from all over the state playing in the second annual City of Roses Wheel-Chair Tennis Tournament.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 30, 1992

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 30, 1992

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: Lin, Davy

Item ID: 64AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Royce B. McKinley, longtime chairman and C.E.O. of Santa Anita Realty Enterprises, Inc. will step down from his position January 1, 1992.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 22, 1991

Pages: p. A-7 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 22, 1991

Pages: p. A-7 photo

Subjects: Santa Anita Companies

Item ID: 2379AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Residents will no longer pay penalties for using too much water starting in January, after the City Council decided Tuesday that the existing system was unfair.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 8, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 8, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Water

Item ID: 3473AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia resident Gloria Horstman, a book columnist for San Gabriel Valley newspapers, begins a monthly book review program at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 7, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 7, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Horstman, Gloria

Item ID: 1749AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Burton Wallace Smith graduated Wednesday from Huntington High School with kudos from the President of the United States. The program at Huntington High School allowed Smith to complete classwork and take tests at his own pace.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 16, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 16, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Schools - Huntington High School

Item ID: 3028AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia Board of Education approved nearly $1 million in district cuts for the coming year.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 6, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 6, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Schools - Budget

Item ID: 2654AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia resident Henry"Red" Austin, who helped start the private Highpoint Academy in Pasadena and worked as a dentist in Alhambra for more than 25 years, died Thursday at the age of 69.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 25, 1991

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 25, 1991

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: Austin, Henry "Red"

Item ID: 560AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Board of Education has adopted a policy that bans smoking at all times in the Arcadia Unified School District as of 7/1/91.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 31, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 31, 1991

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Schools

Item ID: 2625AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Harini Reddy, 17, a senior at Westridge High School in Pasadena, was a Tournament of Rose Princess at the Tournament of Roses 1991 parade.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 30, 1990

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 30, 1990

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: Reddy, Harini

Item ID: 2314AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The City Council approved funding for a new guardrail along Santa Anita Canyon Road, where a motorist drove over a mountainside last year. Federal funds will cover 90% of the new guardrail costs, and the new guardrail could be in place as early as spring.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 23, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 23, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Streets - Chantry Flat Road

Item ID: 3283AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

An application for state funds to help build a commuter or light rail station in the city has been approved by the City Council. The grant would pay 50% of construction costs, excluding the money needed to buy land.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 12, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 12, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Railroads

Item ID: 2280AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Asian Pacific American Legal Center, which recently persuaded Temple City, Rosemead and Garden Grove to stop restricting the use of foreign languages on business signs, has requested a change in the Arcadia city ordinance that allows only 1/3 of the area of a sign to be in a foreign language. The new ordinance is more restrictive than the law that was deemed unconstitutional in Pomona in 1989 which required at least 50% of a sign to be written in the Roman alphabet.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 2, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 2, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Signs and Signboards

Item ID: 3215AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Baldwin Stocker Elementary School opened its Baldwin Stocker Information Center, complete with 16 Apple 2e computers and a computer encyclopedia stored on a single laser disc. It will soon feature modems, fax machines and laser discs. Funding comes from the state and from local support groups such as the Arcadia Educational Foundation and the PTA. Photos.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 18, 1990

Pages: p. A-1, 2

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 18, 1990

Pages: p. A-1, 2

Subjects: Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary

Item ID: 2699AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The new CAS (2) program, an acronym for Curriculum Alignment System and Comprehensive Assessment System, will replace the California Assessment Program (CAP), the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS), and the District Minimum Proficiency Tests. CAS (2) testing will begin in November for high school seniors, with all other grades to take the test in the spring. Advantages of the new test are given in the article.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 21, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 21, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Schools - Test Scores

Item ID: 3129AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The City Council approved an ordinance that will limit houses built in the future to a height of 30 feet or less and increase side-yard setbacks to put more space between the property line and the building. (Complete information of the exact stipulations is included in this article.)

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 12, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 12, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Building Laws

Item ID: 684AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia City Council voted 4-0 in favor of the state-required plan submitted by Fountain Valley-based Rodeffer Investments that would create a landfill in an 85-acre gravel pit on the border between Arcadia and El Monte.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 8, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 8, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Rodeffer Landfill

Item ID: 1904AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The City Council approved a recommendation to hire Glendale-based Charles Walton Associates to prepare a library building program. The proposal will cost between $50,000 and $55,000 and the new library will cost approximately $7 million.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 24, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 24, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library 1961 -

Item ID: 1953AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadian Gary Twombley will leave Washington, D.C. to become part of the 1st group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in Eastern Europe. Twombley, 24, is preparing with 59 other volunteers, including Elizabeth Oewn, 22, of Pasadena, for 2 years of service in Hungary.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 17, 1990

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 17, 1990

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: Twombley, Gary

Item ID: 3428AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

A federal judge has ordered Peter Kiewit and its subsidiary, Kiewit Pacific Co., now located in Santa Fe Springs, to pay the city of Arcadia the cost of cleaning up contaminated soil at the Santa Clara Street property it sold to the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency in 1985. The hazardous waste has put a new office building project on hold for more than a year and a half.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 30, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 30, 1990

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Hazardous Waste

Item ID: 1692AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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The City Council gave preliminary approval Wednesday to an expansion of the Arcadia Public Library that may add 15,000 square feet of space at a cost of about $3.5 million.

28 year old Arcadian Davy Lin, who seriously injured his spine in a motorcycle accident 4 1/2 years ago, will be one of about 60 disabled athletes from all over the state playing in the second annual City of Roses Wheel-Chair Tennis Tournament.

Royce B. McKinley, longtime chairman and C.E.O. of Santa Anita Realty Enterprises, Inc. will step down from his position January 1, 1992.

Residents will no longer pay penalties for using too much water starting in January, after the City Council decided Tuesday that the existing system was unfair.

Arcadia resident Gloria Horstman, a book columnist for San Gabriel Valley newspapers, begins a monthly book review program at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena.

Burton Wallace Smith graduated Wednesday from Huntington High School with kudos from the President of the United States. The program at Huntington High School allowed Smith to complete classwork and take tests at his own pace.

The Arcadia Board of Education approved nearly $1 million in district cuts for the coming year.

Arcadia resident Henry"Red" Austin, who helped start the private Highpoint Academy in Pasadena and worked as a dentist in Alhambra for more than 25 years, died Thursday at the age of 69.

The Board of Education has adopted a policy that bans smoking at all times in the Arcadia Unified School District as of 7/1/91.

Harini Reddy, 17, a senior at Westridge High School in Pasadena, was a Tournament of Rose Princess at the Tournament of Roses 1991 parade.

The City Council approved funding for a new guardrail along Santa Anita Canyon Road, where a motorist drove over a mountainside last year. Federal funds will cover 90% of the new guardrail costs, and the new guardrail could be in place as early as spring.

An application for state funds to help build a commuter or light rail station in the city has been approved by the City Council. The grant would pay 50% of construction costs, excluding the money needed to buy land.

The City Council approved an ordinance that will limit houses built in the future to a height of 30 feet or less and increase side-yard setbacks to put more space between the property line and the building. (Complete information of the exact stipulations is included in this article.)

The Arcadia City Council voted 4-0 in favor of the state-required plan submitted by Fountain Valley-based Rodeffer Investments that would create a landfill in an 85-acre gravel pit on the border between Arcadia and El Monte.

The City Council approved a recommendation to hire Glendale-based Charles Walton Associates to prepare a library building program. The proposal will cost between $50,000 and $55,000 and the new library will cost approximately $7 million.

Arcadian Gary Twombley will leave Washington, D.C. to become part of the 1st group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in Eastern Europe. Twombley, 24, is preparing with 59 other volunteers, including Elizabeth Oewn, 22, of Pasadena, for 2 years of service in Hungary.