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.
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.
The non-profit World Space Foundation has been chosen to lead a team of U.S. engineers that will design and build a space probe that will use large, plastic sails to catch the feather-light pressure of sunlight to power its journey to the moon and Mars. Organizers hope the probe will be launched into orbit by the European Airiane rocket at the end of 1992.
The annual Friends of the Arcadia Public Library booksale will feature 50,000 used books ranging in price from $.75 to $7. This is potentially the last sale since a book shop is part of the design for the library expansion project, scheduled for ground-breaking in November, 1994.
City Council members voted 4-0 to change lighting plans and add a new storm drain system to the Huntington Drive streetscape project, changing the cost from $4.1 to $5.6 million.
Arcadia and Sierra Madre city councils met to discuss their joint water system seismic reliability project which includes what the cities can do to ensure water in the event of a major earthquake.
Diane I-Fan Chang, 22, a student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, is an illustrator for the new magazine, UNITY LA. The non-profit magazine, written and designed for the multicultural youth of the Los Angeles area, is designed to create a more understanding society.
Hal Ward, Arcadia ophthalmologist, and the crew of his 70 foot yacht Chavel '95 will set sail in the 2225 mile TransPacific race from California to Hawaii.
The preliminary design for the Arcadia Historical Museum has been approved by the city council but more money is still needed to build the museum. Fundraising will be done by the Arcadia Historical Society.
Arcadia City Manager Bill Kelly and Mayor Gary Kovacic met with school board members to discuss possible city-school district projects. School Board members questioned how much a new auditorium would be used and were cool to a joint plan.
Diane I-Fan Chang, 22, a student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, is an illustrator for the new UNITY LA., a non-profit magazine funded by corporate donations and individuals that is geared to the ethnically diverse youth in the Los Angeles area.
17 year old Angie Zamorano's death last week in a car accident less than a mile from Arcadia High School brought 300 people together Tuesday for a memorial service at Oakdale Memorial Park in Glendora.
R. James Considine, selected by the California State University Alumni Council from a field of 14 candidates from around the state, is the new alumni trustee for the governing board of the CSU system.
The Arcadia Board of Education will study the environmental impact of new uses and the addition of lights at Dana and First Avenue Middle schools and the Arcadia High School softball field.
Freedman, Tung, and Bottomley, a highly regarded urban design team from San Francisco, has been hired to revitalize Arcadia's historic downtown and mom-and-pop shops.