Thirty-seven portable classrooms-or nearly half the campus - are being used to house students at Arcadia High School while the school undergoes and $8.5 million renovation.
John Gotusso, an Arcadia resident and former principal of Christbridge Academy, was sentenced to 30 days house arrest after pleading no contest to one count of battery on a female student.
The new 11,700 square foot fire station in West Arcadia will house three separate areas for dormitories and locker and dressing rooms, making recruitment of female firefighters easier.
A police Special Weapons and Tactics team stormed a house early Saturday after residents were robbed by six gunmen who invaded the South Third Avenue home.
Bea Chute of Arcadia was among those who traveled to Sacramento as part of her role as Library Supporter Delegate to the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. "School libraries should be an Arcadia priority."
$300,0000 worth of imaging equipment and the facility to house it were donated to the Park by the Southern California Equine Foundation. The nuclear imaging equipment is used like an X-ray to diagnose bone fractures and strains in horses.
About 400 people joined City officials in the spacious main room of the new Arcadia Community Center on Friday to dedicate the $4.5 million structure that will house the City's Senior Citizens Services and Recreation Department.
Santa Anita Park will auction off 10 paintings by Sir Alfred J. Munnings worth an estimated $10 million. They will be sold by Sotheby's New York City auction house on Dec. 1, 1998.
A 12-inch steel-jaw trap was found buried in a condominium flower bed. Such traps are illegal in California. The trap was found next to a house where a smaller device crushed the toes of a cat last week.
Edward Marquez, a 4th-generation native of Tucson, Arizona, has some of his paintings in the Vice President's Admiralty House, Pope John Paul II's Castle Gandolfo, and Egypt's Abden Palace. He is profiled.
A White House Commission has selected 16 year old Arcadia resident Eugenia Kim as one of 500 finalists in the U. S. Presidential Scholar Program, "the nation's highest honor for high school students."