Arcadia Unified School District will purchase 2 portable classrooms at well under the expected cost of $60,000 each. The classrooms will be installed at Hugo Reid Elementary School.
The city of Arcadia will spend an estimated $108,875 to renovate playing fields at 3 public elementary schools: Hugo Reid, Highland Oaks and Holly Avenue, all used by the city's Recreation Department.
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.
Arcadia's Teacher of the Year, Marsha Burkhalter, a sixth grade teacher at Hugo Reid Elementary, is a contender for the 1989 California Teacher of the Year.
Marsha Burkhalter, a 4th grade teacher at Hugo Reid Elementary School, was nominated by the school's PTA for the organization's national Outstanding Educator Award.
Two instances of racial vandalism occurred in Arcadia in 1986. In one case the windows of a synagogue were shot out with a bb gun and in another case, a rabbi's home had a swastika sprayed on it.
The Arcadia City Council has authorized a project to build concrete sidewalks adjacent to Camino Grove, First Avenue, Hugo Reid Primary, Dana and Holly Avenue schools.
Two Arcadia High School students were served with warrants and arrested at their homes early Wednesday morning on suspicion of selling drugs on the high school campus.
The Board will decide May 11 which two of four elementary schools to close next fall. Bonita Park is the most likely candidate for closure. Comments pro and con on the four schools under consideration (Santa Anita, Holly Ave., Bonita Park and Baldwin Park) are given.
Services were held Friday for Beatrice Hugo Perkins, 95, of Arcadia, wife of the late Albert Perkins, mayor of Arcadia from 1940-43. Short biographical sketch.
Bennigan's Restaurant, part of the Southside Development between Second and Fifth streets on East Huntington Drive, is preparing for an expected July 4th opening.
Article discusses Arcadia Historical Society's search for a home for Anita Baldwin's piano as well as other artifacts. The piano, shipped around Cape Horn, is now located at Anoakia, Anita Baldwin's former home.
A two-year contract was approved Monday by the Arcadia Teachers Association wand ratified the same evening by the Board of Education. The ratification followed a full year of negotiations between the two groups.