The City Council voted unanimously to allow construction of a 50,000 sq. ft., 24 hour Albertson's market at Live Oak and Tyler Avenues. The complex, to be completed in January 1995, includes a 2800 sq. ft. restaurant and space for small shops.
A fast-growing medical software company in Arcadia, Software Technologies Corporation, recently introduced the first product that allows health-care providers to use the Internet for transmitting confidential information.
A bill approved by the state Assembly with a 41-21 vote would require the state Integrated Waste Management Board to take into account how the proposed Rodeffer landfill would affect El Monte residents before the board issues permits for the project. It now goes to the state Senate for a vote.
Ground-breaking ceremonies were held on January 22 to celebrate the start of construction of two new Arcadia hotels - the Hilton Garden Inn and Fairfield Suites.
The former city manager of Visalia has unanimously been selected to serve as the new Arcadia City Manager. Donald Duckworth will be officially sworn in at Tuesday's City Council meeting.
At the Board of Education annual organizational meeting, three members, Maryann Gibson, James C. Romo, and John R. McClain were officially sworn to begin their new term of office. A profile of McClain, the new 1999-2000 board president, is presented.
The addition of a new hotel on the corner of Second Avenue and Santa Clara Street in Arcadia would bring an additional 159 rooms to an area which already boasts eight hotels along a one mile stretch of the Huntington Drive corridor.
The City Council voted to allow Rodeffer Investments Inc. to fill a tapped-out quarry, 85 acres by 165 feet deep, with 10 million cubic yards of dirt, gravel and concrete. The plan still must get the approval of the state and local water quality boards, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the CA Integrated Waste Board and the County Health Dept.
Film companies must gather approval signatures of all neighbors within 100 ft. of residential film sites under a rule approved by the City Council last week.
A family in the 700 block of North First Avenue fought off a pair of burglars who broke into their home early Sunday morning and tried to rob them by gunpoint.
Someone broke the bottom part of the glass doors of the Radio Shack store at 1435 Baldwin Avenue and took $2500 worth of merchandise at 5:40 AM Sunday.. 11/3/2008
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.