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16-year-old Arcadia boy Gabriel Shea Carlos was shot dead in the 400 block of Shrode Ave. in unincorporated county area.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34897
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 5, 2017
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 5, 2017
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Carlos, Gabriel Shea
Deaths
Shootings
Item ID
35087AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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19 Horses Die at Santa Anita track. That’s twice 2018’s number for same 2 months; park closed for investigation; rain could be factor. By Jason Henry.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35377
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 27, 2019
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 27, 2019
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Deaths
Henry, Jason
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Item ID
35567AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A 19-year-old man Matthew Zamora, could face a 25 year prison sentence for shooting and killing 24-year-old Joseph Romero of Arcadia, on June 16, 2012, on the 5200 block of Tyler Avenue in unincorporated county area near Arcadia and El Monte.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34251
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 4, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 4, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Romero, Joseph
Zamora, Matthew
Item ID
34445AN
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Newspaper Index
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23-year-old Arcadia man Joshua Martin Parra-Davis was booked by Arcadia Police on suspicion of possessing an explosive device and leaving it in a backpack near a Bank of America on Foothill Boulevard on Friday, January 14, 2011. Witnesses said Parra-Davis first went to Foothills Middle School and may have been trying to open classrooms when he was confronted and ran off. The suspect was then seen dropping a backpack in bushes near the Bank of America and then running through the parking lot, where officers detained him. Arcadia Police called the bomb squad. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Bob Squad successfully detonated the device. Parra-Davis could be arranged in Pasadena Court today.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32296
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Arrests
Bombs
Crime and Criminals
Parra-Davis, Joshua Martin
Item ID
32495AN
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Newspaper Index
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A $600,000 grant from the Azusa-based San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountain Conservancy, plus $200,000 of in-kind amenities provided by the County Department of Parks and Recreation, will help fund a face lift for Peck Road Park at 5401 Peck Road.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32536
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News,
Date
September 17, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News,
Date
September 17, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Parks
Peck Road Water Conservation Park
Item ID
32735AN
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Newspaper Index
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626 Night Market spawns copycats. The concept of a Taiwanese style foodie bazaar that has been held at Santa Anita Park, has spread to Orange County, Koreatown in Los Angeles, Monterey Park, and Studio City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33916
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 9, 2014
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 9, 2014
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
626 Night Market
Food festivals
Xu, Aileen
Item ID
34110AN
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Newspaper Index
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2001 Arcadia homicide suspect, 72-year-old Richard Cole, arrested by Los Angeles Sheriffs Department Homicide and Arcadia Police Department, in the stabbing death of his wife, Charlotte S. Cole. She was killed September 1, 2001 on the 50 block of Las Tunas Drive, in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33235
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 8, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 8, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Cole, Charlotte S.
Cole, Richard
Crime and Criminals
Murders
Item ID
33432AN
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2011 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) scores show a majority of area schools are progressing. California's STAR program assesses public school students' knowledge of the math, English and science in grades 2 through 11. At Arcadia Unified School District, these are the percentage of students who scored proficient or advanced in core subjects: English-Language Arts 83.9%; History 76%; Mathematics 82.4%; Science 84.7%; Science end of course 80.4%. STAR scores from other area schools are given.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32499
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR)
Test Scores
Item ID
32698AN
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Newspaper Index
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Abandoned pet turtles, specifically red-eared slider turtles that are native to Louisiana, are turning up at the Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia (shown in photograph), Huntington Library, and local golf courses. It is illegal to buy turtles less than 4 inches long and to dump them. They threaten to push out the state's only native turtles species in urban and natural waters here.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32163
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 6, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 6, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Animals
Pets
Turtles
Item ID
32360AN
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The Adams' Pack Station, owned by Deb Burgess, in the Chantry Flat area, 3 miles up a road starting from the top of Santa Anita Avenue in Arcadia, fights to remain open as it faces costly upgrades required by the Los Angeles County Health Department. Forest authorities want it to remain a historic landmark, which would limit the amount and types of renovations that can be done.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31930
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2010
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Adams' Pack Station
Burgess, Deb
Chantry Flat
Conforti, Rich
Item ID
32127AN
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The ad (open letter to the Arcadia community) that was paid for by the three members of the Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education who are targeted for recall--Cung Nguyen, lori Phillipi, and Kay Kinsler--was printed in the Pasadena Star News August 11, 2013. Fired Arcadia High School cross country coach James O'Brien and his supporters say the letter was a public relations bid to derail the recall effort. See hard copy of the letter in VF "Arcadia High School." See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 1 and 27, August 15, 2013.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33586
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 13, 2013
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 13, 2013
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports--cross country
Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education
Gonzalez, Sergio
Kinsler, Kay
Nguyen, Cung
O'Brien, James
Phillipi, Lori
Wei, Esmond
Item ID
33781AN
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Alice Wang will be inducted as 2012 Citizen of the Year and Santa Anita Park's Pete Siberell will be sworn in as 2012-2013 Chamber President at the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce Installation Dinner on April 19, 2012 at Santa Anita Park's elegant Chandelier Room.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32965
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 19, 2012
Pages
p. 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 19, 2012
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Arcadia Chamber of Commerce
Siberell, Pete
Wang, Alice
Item ID
33162AN
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All four "tree-sitters" arrested while protesting the destruction of an 11-acre oak woodland in Arcadia appeared in Alhambra Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to one count each of trespassing and obstruction a police officer. They are John Quigley, 50, of Glendale, Julia Jaye Posin, 23 of Venice Beach, Travis Jochimsen, 28, of Lancaster and Andrea Bowers, 45 of Los Angeles. They rejected an offer of community service and payment of restitution from the District Attorney's office. The four will appear in court again April 22 for a pre-trial hearing.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32356
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 24, 2011
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 24, 2011
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Activists
Bowers, Andrea
Environment
Jochimsen, Travis
Oak trees
Posin, Julia Jaye
Quigley, John
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Item ID
32554AN
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Newspaper Index
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The American Red Cross chapter in Arcadia has laid off 10 of 11 employees, citing a large budget deficit. Chapter officials say all services will continue, with help from staff from the Los Angeles and San Gabriel/Pomona Valley chapters. Most of the laid off staff were trainers who taught first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32178
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2010
Pages
p. A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2010
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
American Red Cross--Arcadia chapter
Item ID
32377AN
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An activist group called Save the Arcadia Highlands is suing the City of Arcadia over two residential developments that Arcadia City Council approved in February, citing possible violations to "specific provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the California Planning and Zoning Law, filed March 12. The addresses involved are 29 East Orange Grove Avenue and 1600 Highland Oaks Drive. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 1, 17, March 19, 2015.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34125
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council
Arvizo, David
Bowden Development
Highland Oaks Homeowners' Association (HOA)
Lawsuits
Mansions
Save Arcadia Highlands
Tong, Robert
Verlato, April
Item ID
34319AN
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Newspaper Index
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Annual Taste of Arcadia, an Arcadia Chamber of Commerce event, will take place Monday, September 19 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. As always, a percentage of proceeds goes to three local non-profit organizations. This year, the beneficiaries are Assistance League of Arcadia, the Boy Scouts of America/Lucky Baldwin District, and the Arboretum Foundation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32531
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 13
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Arcadia Chamber of Commerce--Taste of Arcadia
Organizations
Item ID
32730AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia 2014 Senior Citizen of the Year Glynna Harper is recognized at the 49th Annual Older Americans Recognition Day Awards Program at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33858
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 12, 2014
Pages
p. 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 12, 2014
Pages
p. 11
Subjects
Arcadia Senior Citizen of the Year
Harper, Glynna
Item ID
34052AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia aims to increase tourism and makes breakthrough in residential burglaries. Recap of Arcadia City Council meeting. New Arcadia tourism video was presented to promote Arcadia, with the goal of bringing new business investment to the city. Arcadia Police Chief Bob Guthrie gave a report on crime in the city and has recently uncovered a ring of burglars in the county through the cracking of codes on a captured burglar’s cell phone and has a couple of those criminals in custody.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35344
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 6, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 12
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 6, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 12
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Guthrie, Bob
Schwehr, Tim
Item ID
35534AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia aims to upgrade city library. The library is getting community feedback at a community needs assessment forum tonight and has hired an outside party to create a survey written in three languages. The goal is to determine what barriers they need to overcome to bring more people to the library and which programs and services need improvement, particularly in the technology sector.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34065
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 15, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 15, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library-2010-2019
Surveys
Item ID
34259AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia, Alhambra, Monrovia, Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Gabriel, San Marino and Temple City public schools all showed improvement on California state API testing that measures English and math performance. Duarte Unified showed a drop from the previous year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32510
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 1, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 1, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Academic Performance Index (API)
Arcadia Schools
Test Scores
Item ID
32709AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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