Fire Danger Remains High after a Small Brush Fire in Monrovia Monday
By Terry Miller A major Fire Department response put dozens of firefighters, three helicopters and 40 pieces of equipment at the foot of Canyon Park in Monrovia Monday, with assistance from Los Angeles County, Arcadia, Pasadena, Glendale, Monterey Park and the US Forest Service. Canyon Park was evacuated as the fire began. No homes or [...]
Oak Tree will not meet at Santa Anita This Year – Track Safety Concerns Cited
The California Horse Racing Board starved of an application Thursday for the Oak Tree Racing Association to run its fall meet at Santa Anita Park. It has been a difficult time for horse racing in general and for Santa Anita Park in particular. Many contributing factors which include lower attendance and few race horses have [...]
Sierra Madre Upper Campus Middle School Razed – 325 Students will use Portables On Site During Construction
Sierra Madre Upper Campus Middle School Razed – Students will use Portables During Construction Editor’s Note: Students at Sierra Madre’s Upper Campus WILL be using the portables on site when they go back to school and not go to Sierra Madre Elementary as reported in today’s print edition. Apologies for the confusion The Measure TT [...]
Beacon Media News Photographer Assumes Editor Position
During a 1991 Assignment, yours truly was decontaminated by the Ventura County Hat Mat team after being exposed to a rocket fuel as the result of covering a train derailment. This image and many similar images ran in newspapers around the world, and was an example of how one covering the news can become part [...]
274 Water Rate Increase Protest Letters “Invalid or Duplicate” –
By Terry Miller Outraged residents who protested a proposed near 40% Water Rate hike in Sierra Madre won last week, or so they thought when City Clerk Nancy Shollenberger said she was “absolutely, positively” certain of the new numbers which indicated a victory for those opposed to the hike : A press release was issued [...]
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Stories
Calling all St. Rita Alumni! Local Sierra Madre luninaries: Tom Brady, Melissa Delgado Stutenroth, Tom Behrens, Ellen Behrens Hoffman and “Sierra Madre Sue” Behrens are assembling a database of graduates from St. Rita’s School. Are you possibly in this picture we dug up. The photo was taken probably in the mid 1930′s. Are you in [...]
Water Rate Increase On Hold Thanks to Residents’ Outcry
Sierra Madre Residents Initial Attempt to Defeat City’s Attempt to Raise Water Rates nearly 40% Seems Successful j By Terry Miller It has been an exacting few weeks for Sierra Madre city’s infrastructure. Water mains breaks and aging pipes underground on Sierra Madre Boulevard have caused a small sink hole and a whopping emergency $35,000 [...]
40% Increase in Water at July 5th Parade Sparks Controversy – Sierra Madre Volunteer Firefighters…..Heroes of the Parade…These Guys Really Know Water
Sierra Madre Volunteer Firefighters…..Heroes of the Parade…These Guys Really Know Water Dogmatic Observations: By Terry Miller There were several things different about this year’s Fourth of July parade. Firstly and perhaps foremost, it was not held on the fourth, presumably as to not to offend those attending church. ( I wonder whatever happened to separation [...]
Water Takes Center Stage at Sierra Madre’s Annual Parade
This year’s July 4 parade held on the 5th, was perhaps a little more political than usual. Perhaps there was a 40% increase in the water used from last year, coincidentally the percentage the city wants to hike the water rates. The obvious anger at the proposed water rate was echoed in Sierra Madre City [...]
La Salle Seniors Hold on to Win Charity Game
La Salle’s senior and junior girls played the second annual Powder Puff football game in a charity event to benefit Cystic Fibrosis and Juvenile Diabetes research. They chose these two organizations because each class has at least one student impacted with the disease. Kohorst Field was the site on Thursday, May 13 which featured the [...]
