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Hanukkah begins at sundown Sunday, Dec. 14. Two Pasadena Jewish congregations are preparing to mark the eight-night Festival of Lights with public celebrations and private resilience. Chabad of Pasadena is scheduled to hold a public menorah lighting at Pasadena City Hall on Sunday afternoon. The event, billed as “Light Up Pasadena,” is set for 3:30 to 5 p.m. and will include serving latkes, doughn... More »
Plant Material, a California native plant nursery located at 3081 Lincoln Avenue in Altadena, will conclude its two-day tree giveaway on December 14, 2025, as part of its annual Winter Market. The event is aimed at helping restore the community’s tree canopy, more than half of which — and by some estimates as much as 70 percent — was destroyed in the Eaton Fire earlier this year. Before January Ea... More »
A year after the City of Pasadena accepted a symbolic wooden Yellow Ribbon marking the overseas deployment of local Marine reservists, city leaders returned the symbol Saturday—signaling the safe homecoming of every Marine and Sailor from the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment. The brief but meaningful ceremony took place at the battalion’s headquarters on Paloma Street, where Pasadena officials ... More »
In Altadena, the Small Business Administration outpost so important to Eaton Fire recovery is set to close this week. The SBA Disaster Loan Outreach Center at the Altadena Community Center, along with a second location in Pacific Palisades, will permanently shut doors Wednesday, Dec. 17, according to the agency. The Altadena site at 730 E. Altadena Drive has operated since June 2, 2025, after earl... More »
Families will be able to enjoy festive music, children’s activities, photo opportunities and an opportunity to meet Santa Claus when Senator Sasha Renée Pérez hosts “Winter Wonderland” on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Pasadena City Hall Rotunda, 100 Garfield Ave. The free community event is designed as a family-friendly celebration, according to a statement from Pérez’s offi... More »
Pasadena officials are asking the City Council on Monday to authorize a $7 million payment to CalPERS and a refinancing-style move intended to reshape the City’s largest public-safety pension debt, a proposal City staff presents as a way to reduce long-term costs and steady annual payments as the City’s own five-year forecast anticipates ongoing General Fund shortfalls. In an agenda report routed ... More »
The Pasadena Fire Department has begun collecting toys for the 2025 Spark of Love Toy Drive, Fire Chief Chad Augustin and the department announced. The collaboration with ABC7 invites residents to donate new, unwrapped toys, sports equipment or gift cards to benefit local children and families this holiday season. The drive received an early boost from within the department. At her 16th birthday p... More »
Andrew Sinclair came to Caltech as a visiting assistant professor in 2022. Finding Caltech to be an ideal place to carry out his research on Chinese finance, he has stayed on. Sinclair continues to pursue his research and teach Caltech students about finance through courses titled Hedge Funds, International Trade and Finance, and, of course, Understanding China through Finance, his own research ar... More »
The South Coast Air Quality Management District extended a No-Burn Alert for 24 additional hours on Saturday, prohibiting wood burning in fireplaces and in all indoor or outdoor devices across four Los Angeles-area counties. The alert is now in effect until at least midnight Sunday and covers the South Coast Air Basin, including large areas of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino coun... More »
Tim McDonald saw tears in the audience Friday. From his position on stage outside Pasadena’s Central Library, the city’s library director watched as speaker after speaker described what the nearly century-old building means to them — and to generations of residents who have passed through its doors since 1927. The crowd listened, and some of them wept. “You could tell there was a real sense of pri... More »
