
Lack of MTA Action Could Cost County Hundreds of Millions in Federal Funding

During the week of Sunday, October 4th, to October 10th, the Sierra Madre Police Department responded to approximately 296 calls for service.


Arcadia resident Natalie Anne Innocenzi, 16-year-old Rose Princess and student at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, was selected by the Tournament of Roses as the 92nd Rose Queen this morning. Speaking with the Pasadena Independent last week after being selected as one of the seven finalists, Innocenzi said she was humbled by her selection at that [...]

Sierra Madre residents Barry Schwam and Lydia Bangtson met during an acting class at Sierra Madre Playhouse. Assigned a Neil Simon love scene to work on, soon they weren’t acting. Their dramatic meeting blossomed into real life love. The couple celebrated their nuptials on Saturday, October 10 at the picturesque and historic Church of Ascension [...]

Such mystique a foreigner can bring to a small town full of folks who’ve never had the chance to travel to other countries! Charlie Baker is endowed with that mystique when he arrives at Betty Meeks’s fishing lodge in Georgia. In actuality, Betty is the one who does the endowing. She’s never traveled nor met [...]

Last weekend, MAFA expanded its annual event by working in collaboration with the Nuvein Foundation for Literature and the Arts to present live entertainment and art venues throughout Old Town Monrovia. There were poetry readings as well as a self-publishing panel, a comic panel on storyboarding presented by Ralph Navarro and cartoonists presenting ‘live draws’, [...]

The fifth season of the Arcadia Public Library’s A Classical Kaleidoscope begins at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21 in Cay Mortenson Auditorium at the library when Zhiming Han and Cynthia Hsiang return for their second appearance at this series with the music of both contemporary and ancient China. Cynthia Hsiang, an adjunct professor of Asian [...]


During the week of Sunday, September 27th to Saturday, October 3rd, 2009, the Sierra Madre Police Department responded to approximately 264 calls for service. Sunday, September 27th: 11:07 PM – Arrest, Defrauding the DMV, Michillinda Ave and Orange Grove Ave. An officer stopped a motorist for a traffic violation. While speaking to the driver, the [...]