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David S. Zeidberg, Avery Director of the Library, has announced his retirement effective June 30, 2017. Zeidberg has held his position at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, since March 1996. “David’s accomplishments at Th... More »
After an 18-month national search, Pasadena’s All Saints Episcopal Church announced Wednesday that its search for a new rector is over and that its search committee’s candidate has been unanimously affirmed by the church’s vestry, an elected body that runs the... More »
A 69-year-old woman died Sunday as she was hiking with friends on the Sam Merill Trail in the Angeles National Forest north of Altadena. Deputies at the Altadena Sheriff’s Station said the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team was activated at about 12:40 p.m. to resp... More »
Eight Pasadena firefighters on two fire engines were sent Saturday night to help control the raging Calabasas fire that has forced at least 5,000 people to evacuate from their homes. Meanwhile, the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team was activated and worked with th... More »
Today’s Pasadena Senior Games will see 71-year-old Pasadenan and longtime athlete Sarah Sneider among the virtual army of older people who have keep alive the flame of youthful athleticism as they have aged. “It’s never too late to be a champion,” explained Sn... More »
Pasadena Police Department will step up Bike & Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operations on Friday, June 3, 2016, with focused enforcement on collision causing factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. The department has mapped out locations over... More »
[Updated Tuesday, May 31, 2016 | 6:30 p.m.] One of Pasadena’s landmark companies is planning to move a portion of its corporate functions from Pasadena to the Lone Star State, Pasadena Now has learned. An earlier erroneous report had indicated the company was... More »
Pasadena police officers arrested a 21-year-old South Pasadena resident after he was allegedly caught in the act of carrying a large flat screen television out of a restaurant near Pasadena Police headquarters in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. The commercia... More »
Caltech’s annual Ditch Day brought zany games and unusual activities to the school’s underclassmen in a decades-old tradition that is the final send off from the senior class. Described as a cross between “Animal House” and a science fair, Ditch Day’s actual d... More »
Allan Sandage, Staff Member Emeritus of the Carnegie Observatory in Pasadena, was a tremendously influential figure in the field of astronomy. While working here, in unassuming clumps of buildings on Santa Barbara Street just off North Lake Avenue, Sandage cal... More »
Pasadena Police Department Traffic Unit will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint on Friday, May 27, 2016 at an undisclosed location within the city limits between the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. The deterrent effect of DUI checkpoints is a prove... More »
Frances Arnold, the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, has been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for her “directed evolution” method, which creates new and better proteins in the laboratory usi... More »
