Celebrating a Quarter-Century of Racing
This Weekend’s Breeders’ Cup Offers Incredible Chance to See World’s Best Thoroughbreds in Action.
Local Princess: Found, and Headed to Vroman’s
New Book by Local Author Offers Story of an American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected them All. On Sunday, November 15th at 3:00pm, Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas will present and sign their new book at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena. Over the past two years Sarah Culberson’s story of the search [...]
Police Nab Suspect on the Run
Just after 1 p.m. on Saturday, a Monrovia Police vehicle screeched through the parking lot of an office complex east of Mrytle Ave., between Chestnut and Walnut in pursuit of a suspect who had fled from them on foot. The officers had little patience for the fleeing suspect’s cries for forgiveness as they apprehended him, [...]
Arcadia’s Natalie Innocenzi Selected as 2010 Rose Queen
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 she [...]
Our Next Young Computer Wiz: Dadrian Tran
Temple City’s Dadrian Tran loves “The Simpsons,” and if this shared love (obsession) of ours’ were reason enough to give him a new computer, it surely would have been good enough for me. But of course, there are better reasons why this bright eighth grader from Oak Ave. Elementary chose to send us an essay [...]
New Kohl’s Department Store Opens on Huntington
The new Kohl’s department store at 504 W. Huntington Dr. in Monrovia opened its doors Wednesday with their official Grand Opening event. The department store chain announced plans to open the new store months ago and very soon after the closing of Mervyn’s department store, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year and sold off all [...]
