Monrovia Schools Facing Increasing Class Size – 16 Teacher Pink Slips to be issued “Things are bad” Says MUSD Superintendent Wagner
By Susan Motander
Last Thursday the California Teachers Association called for a Day of Action to protest cuts to educational funding. In response the Monrovia Teachers Association held a meeting at Clifton Middle School. But the tone was neither strident nor confrontational.
Ann Battle, president of the MTA set the tone for the meeting by [...]
The Homes That Love Built
By Susan Motander
The San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity turned keys over to four families on Saturday at the dedication of their new homes on Sherman Avenue in Monrovia. In giving the Invocation, Reverend Gregory Douglass of the Monrovia United Methodist Church, called the homes “A place to be a family.” [...]
Blotters
During the past fourteen days , the Police Department handled 527 service events, resulting in 116 investigations. Following are the last week’s highlighted issues and events:
Vehicle Burglary
On February 4 at 8:13 p.m., a resident in the 100 block of El Nido reported that someone had broken into their vehicle. They had parked the vehicle [...]
Paragon At Old Town Monrovia Now Renting
Photo by Terry Miller
By Susan Motander
Paragon At Old Town, the new complex on Myrtle Avenue between Olive and Walnut Avenues, is set to open in the beginning of April, but is already renting units. Very soon traffic on Myrtle Avenue will return to normal. Part of the snarls have been created by the [...]
Family Argument Leads LAPD Officer to Kill Son in Unincorporated Monrovia
The Los Angeles County Coroner Friday identified the 17-year-old boy who was shot to death by his father in an unincorporated county area near Monrovia Thursday night.
Brian Macias died Thursday night after his father allegedly shot him during an quarrel at the 100 block of East Andre Street. The shooting occurred around 6 PM according [...]
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Fire Kills Animals on Redell and Pamela Road in Monrovia
Fire Consumes this garage at a home on the corner of Redell and Pamela in an unincorporated part of Monrovia on Friday afternoon. One Los Angeles County firefighter was hit with falling debris from the roof of the garage when he was attempting to put the fire out. No other injuries were reported.
Photos by [...]
La Canada Mud Seriously Damages Numerous Homes and Cars-Authorities Caught By Surprise
By mid morning Saturday the clean up work was well underway. Many cars had been washed down Ocean View Blvd like a slip and slide at an amusement park. However, this was no laughing matter. The cars were destroyed contributing to an over all vista of absolute chaos…one refered to it as a [...]
Tyler Johnson, Co-Conspirator in 2005 SUV Fire-bombings in San Gabriel Found Dead in France
Caltech graduate student Tyler James Johnson, who fled the U.S. investigators identified him as an alleged conspirator in a case involving arson attacks at several San Gabriel Valley car dealerships six years ago, has died according to an obituary on a Michigan Funeral Home’s web site it was first reported by the LA Times. [...]
Pasadena Playhouse Plans To Reorganize – To Close Temporarily
Pasadena Playhouse, the State Theater of California, has announced today it intends to explore viable options of financial reorganization, including bankruptcy, to determine a responsible solution for its ongoing operations.
“We firmly believe it would be irresponsible to continue to operate in the same financial patterns of the past,” said Stephen Eich, Pasadena [...]
