Despite concerns from some local businesses that a Saturday farmers' market is hurting their sales, City Council voted to fund the market for another six months.
The Saturday Farmers Market will continue for at least another six months. Arcadia Business Association operates the event and estimate that 22,000 have visited the market in the last 8 months.
It was announced at Tuesday night's Arcadia Council meeting that the Arcadia Farmer's Market would cease to exist, following this Saturday's installment.
City Council approved closing First Avenue between Alta and California Streets from 6 AM to 1 PM on Saturdays from April 18 through Oct. 31. for a Farmer's Market.
Two local fire safe councils, the Sierra Madre and Big Santa Anita councils, each received $1000 of a grant from Farmers Insurance Group. The grant will help residents protect their homes.
The City Council approved a drug and alcohol policy despite concerns voiced by police officers and fire fighters about the language used in the document concerning "designated standby or on-call status," normally used to describe around the clock periods.
The City Council voted to fund 1/3 of the nearly $700,000 cost for the 1584-foot sound wall from 2nd to 5th Avenues. The state of California, following a 1991 senate measure, will pay the remaining 2/3.
A divided school board voted 3-2 Tuesday to allow Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" to be used in an Arcadia High School English class, despite complaints the book is too sexually explicit.
A member of the White Mountain Apache Tribal Council in Arizona said Friday the Council still accepts the use of the "Apache" nickname by Arcadia High School, despite a local Native American activist's request to condemn it.