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James “Jim” Marrin, a graphic designer who helped found Pasadena Heritage in 1977 and designed the preservation group’s first logo, died Aug. 19 at 86, about five weeks after the organization honored him at Castle Green during a ceremony opening its 50th-anniv... More »
Rain will move through Pasadena today with thunderstorms possible after 11 a.m., according to National Weather Service forecasters in Oxnard. Forecasters put the chance of precipitation at 90% and expect between a half-inch and three-quarters of an inch of new... More »
The Editors of Pasadena Now go through over 100 articles published this week on our site and cull the top 20 most newsworthy, informative, and readable. Pasadena Names Its Rent-Registry Holdouts, and City Property Is on the List Pasadena Unified Board Edits “D... More »
On Saturday, the lawns, corridors and sitting rooms of Tournament House filled with young women in dresses, heels tapping on the walkways, eagerly and nervously waiting their turn to speak. They were allotted fifteen seconds each. Fifteen seconds to explain, t... More »
A bill to tighten how California police collect and share automated license plate reader (ALPR) data died in the Assembly without a floor vote last week, leaving Pasadena’s 61-camera Flock network operations unchanged under existing law. Senate Bill 1013 by Se... More »
Pasadena Unified School District told the Longfellow Magnet School community in an email Friday that no tree removal was “currently happening,” and that it is taking a fresh look at the available arborist, environmental and remediation information before makin... More »
Jamil Soucar, founder and principal of Arc & Line, LLC, who has worked in the construction industry since 1983, will discuss tenant improvement projects in a free webinar at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, hosted by the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. The hourlong s... More »
Octavia E. Butler’s long-suppressed 1978 novel “Survivor” hit shelves Sept. 1 in its first U.S. reprint in roughly four decades, a move made in agreement with her estate despite the late Pasadena-born author’s repeated public objections to the book, according ... More »
The pool at Altadena’s Loma Alta Park will stay open through Sept. 30 under an extended summer season paid for with a one-time grant from Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, the county says. The extended season, which began Aug. 24, includes recreati... More »
Pasadena Water and Power has pushed major construction at Washington Boulevard and Raymond Avenue, part of its Raymond Avenue undergrounding project, to Sept. 21 from Sept. 14, with lanes reduced at the intersection for about three weeks. Lanes at the intersec... More »
All 10 open Pasadena Public Library locations will be closed Sunday and Monday, Sept. 6 and 7, for Labor Day, and will return to their regular schedules Tuesday, Sept. 8. The two-day closure overlaps a nine-day period in which the library’s online catalog and ... More »
One person died in a motorcycle collision on the Foothill (210) Freeway in Pasadena, authorities announced Saturday. A motorcyclist went to exit the westbound freeway, tried to switch back to the main road and then fell off the motorcycle around 11:31 p.m. Fri... More »
