Special Olympics Southern California (SOSC) is pleased to announce Tim Hartley of Pasadena as this year’s recipient of the Michael W. Harahan Outstanding Adult Volunteer Award for the Pasadena Area. This award honors volunteers’ accomplishments within SOSC... More »
Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has launched a four-minute video which features “Sammy the Second,” an animated character demonstrating how NASA’s Space Atomic Clock project is being used in deep-space navigation. Sammy the Second was introduced in the vi... More »
Pasadena Police handed citations to at least 100 individuals who were caught operating their cellphones or being distracted while driving last Monday. The department deployed 15 officers on motorcycles throughout the district, especially along main thoroughfar... More »
Former Pasadena City College Police Chief Philip L. Mullendore passed away in Lake Arrowhead on August 8. He was 64. Mullendore was PCC Chief of Police for over a decade, retiring in 2003, and continued serving the campus by joining the California Commission o... More »
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis was injured in a car accident this month when her SUV crashed into another car. Although details of the accident have been kept under wraps, Pasadena victim advocate and personal injury attorney Pius Joseph says that the actress may fa... More »
The First United Methodist Church of Pasadena will be hosting an electronic waste recycling drive and an attic sale on August 24 at 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The public may bring any electronic devices except large appliances, toner cartridges, fluorescent bulb... More »
University of California President Mark G. Yudof has awarded the UC Presidential Medal to Jack Scott, the former state legislator who led the 112 schools of the California Community Colleges as chancellor from 2009 until his retirement in 2012. Scott  also se... More »
Mary Kathleen Hastings, Director of The Chandler School’s Annual Fund, was wedded to Matthew Sandford Boone on August 17 in Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, Okla. The happy couple will reside in Pasadena. The pair originally met while they attended University o... More »
Starting in July 2013, Pasadena Police Detective DeLeon tracked a pattern of daytime apartment burglaries in the south end of the city. Between July 6th and July 13th, the suspects committed approximately 11 residential burglaries. Police resources from Field ... More »
On a lazy summer morning when most people were still sitting with their morning coffee, members of the Sierra Madre Rotary Club picked up their paint brushes and headed for the Library. Once there, they primed and painted the new Local History Room, getting it... More »
New principals are at Pasadena Unified School District’s McKinley School and Norma Coombs Alternative School for the 2013-2014 school year. The new principal of McKinley is John Albert, while Norma Coombs’ new interim principal is Dr. Jennifer Smith. Albert, w... More »
Pasadena-based Les Jardins USA, the American subsidiary of the award-winning, high-end France-based outdoor furniture manufacturer Les Jardins, is turning 10 years old in 2013. To celebrate, the company is unveiling a new logo, a revamped website at www.lesjar... More »
