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Antonio Manning lost his home in the Eaton Fire. One year later, he chairs the Eaton Fire Collaborative Leadership Council, the governance body that oversees the Long-term Recovery Group, where mental health services have become, in his words, “highly sought a... More »
Christine Moore, a Pasadena baker and candy maker whose sea-salt caramels and French-inflected pastries helped turn Little Flower Candy Company into a neighborhood gathering place — and who later used the café’s kitchen to feed evacuees and first responders du... More »
A few months ago, Ada Gates Patton sat down to lunch with the head of equestrian operations for the Tournament of Roses. She had something to say, and she began carefully: “I think it’s time for me—” The director cut her off. “Stop! You are not finishing that ... More »
Pasadena Media’s award-winning local TV talk show “Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman” continues this Friday at 5 p.m., featuring guest Miguel Márquez, who recently announced his retirement as Pasadena City Manager after more than three years. Before coming ... More »
For nearly two months at the start of this year, Monet Bagneris could not speak. The singer’s throat had gone into shock, a physiological response to the toxic ash that blanketed the area after the Eaton Fire tore through Altadena. She communicated with a dry-... More »
Retired Pasadena Police Department Lieutenant Robert “Bob” Dague, who served the city for more than a quarter century, died Dec. 2. He was 91. Dague joined the Department in 1957 and retired in 1983 after 26 years of service. His career spanned assignments in ... More »
California Highway Patrol Officer Eric Voss, assigned to the Altadena Area office, died Saturday morning from injuries sustained in an off-duty motorcycle crash the previous day, according to official statements from the CHP and Commissioner Sean Duryee. Voss ... More »
Astronomer Michael R. Blanton has been appointed the 12th director of the Carnegie Science Observatories, the institution announced. Blanton will oversee astronomical research in Pasadena and direct telescope operations at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, on... More »
Kenny Lau, a postdoctoral scholar research associate and experimental cosmologist in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA), passed away on November 22, 2025. He was 36 years old. Lau first joined the Caltech community as a visiting graduate ... More »
In 1939, a young man of Chickasaw heritage walked into an Army recruiting station and signed up, listing Pasadena, California, as his home of record. Over the next two decades, Raymond G. Harvey would fight his way across Normandy, earn the Distinguished Servi... More »
Ted Koerner, 67, has become possibly the first resident of Altadena to move back into a completely rebuilt home after the destructive Eaton Fire, returning just in time for Thanksgiving with his 13-year-old golden retriever, Daisy May. Koerner, whose hilltop h... More »
The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce will honor incoming Tournament of Roses President Mark Leavens at its Annual Breakfast on Thursday, December 4, at the Hilton Pasadena. Leavens, who announced the 2026 Rose Parade theme “The Magic in Teamwork” on February 4, at... More »
