Monthly Archives: September 2020

UPDATE: Public Health Revises Halloween Order | LA County Recommends Against Trick-or-Treating

On Wednesday night, health officials walked back on it's previous orders prohibiting door-to-door trick-or-treating, and categorized it as "not recommended." The coronavirus had seemingly knocked...

November Elections | Charles Treviño Seeks 4th Term on Water District Board

Charles Treviño, a longtime South Pasadena resident, was first elected to the board of directors of the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District...

Obituary | Reymundo Roque Hernandez, Sr. (Rey)

Reymundo Roque Hernandez, Sr. (Rey) died peacefully at the age of 73 in his home in South Pasadena on June 9, 2020, where he...

Letter to the Editor | ‘Edison is Extremely Difficult to Work With’

For those of us living on Las Palmitas, this Labor Day weekend represents the umpteenth three day weekend in the last five years we...

Huntington Library | “The Blue Boy” Is Reinstalled After Major Conservation Project

MEDIA RELEASE: One of the most famous works at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), has...

Arts Are Essential | September 11 – 18

South Pasadena's nighttime mayor, Brad Colerick, brings us a new Wine & Song podcast, #23, featuring music by Brad Colerick, Emily Zuzik with Ted...

LA COUNTY FIRE EMERGENCY FOOTHILL CITIES | UPDATED: Evacuation Warnings in Place

ARCADIA EVACUATION ORDERS LIFTED AS OF 9PM WED. 9-9-2020. UPDATE: Wednesday September 9 | FOREST SERVICE RELEASE The fire made a big push today, as the...

South Pasadena Seniors | Flu Vaccine Clinic September 23

The South Pasadena Senior Center will host a flu vaccine Clinic on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 starting at 8:30 am through 11 am. The vaccine...

Know Your Rights

South Pasadena High School’s Speech and Debate team is organizing a program, known as Know Your Rights, as a community program for participants to understand...

Letter to the Editor | ‘Gratuitous PR for the Police Department’

Dear Editor, I am troubled by a string of articles coming out in The South Pasadenan online over the last week. The first article involves a...

SPPD Weekly Crime Summary | Sep 1-7, 2020

The Weekly Crime Summary is a list of reported auto thefts, burglaries, robberies and other activities occurring in the City of South Pasadena. An...

Local Firefighters Fight El Dorado Wildfire | South Pasadena Fire Department

Engine 81 is getting a solid workout this wildfire season. The South Pasadena Fire Department's main firefighting apparatus has been used in a steady stream...

National PTA Reflections Art Contest | Submit Your Art Now

Calling all artists! The National PTA Reflections Art Contest is an art competition for students in Pre-K through Grade 12. Students from all five...

Woman Found Dead at South Pasadena Metro Gold Line Station

South Pasadena Police Department Report: On September 6, 2020, at approximately 6:00 P.M., officers from the South Pasadena Police Department responded to the Foothill Gold...

South Pasadena Police News Release | Imposter Claiming to be City Employee

On Sunday, September 6, 2020, at about 4:00 a.m., officers from the South Pasadena Police Department were dispatched to the 18 hundred block of...

South Pasadena Police News Release | Stolen Property Arrest

South Pasadena Police Department News Release: On Saturday, September 5, 2020, at about 2:22 A.M., a concerned resident reported seeing two men removing bicycles from...

Labor Day Weekend | Stay Safe, Stay Smart

With the arrival of the Labor Day weekend comes another major challenge as health officials warn it might create a surge in coronavirus cases,...

The Journey | Scott Silven at The Broad Stage

Illusionist, mentalist and performance artist Scott Silven takes his audience on a mesmerizing crossing from their homes to his in rural Scotland in The...

Cruz’n for Roses 2020 | Virtual Car Show Slated for Sunday, Sep 20

South Pasadena Tournament of Roses MEDIA RELEASE: Called off physically on account of the coronavirus, a popular car show in South Pasadena will continue for...

South Coast AQMD Issues Ozone Advisory Due to Heat Wave

Poor air quality is expected throughout the South Coast Air Basin for Friday through Monday. Air quality will be impacted by elevated ozone levels due...

Vanessa Marquez Remembered 2 Years Later | Advocates Take to Streets on Slain Actress’...

“We are the Rebel Alliance,” said a woman dressed as Princess Leia emphatically speaking through a bullhorn to a crowd of about 50 in...

$110,000 Donated to SPUSD from PTA | Money Successfully Raised for Schools During Coronavirus

The South Pasadena Council PTA on Thursday, September 3, presented a substantial check of $110,280.59 to the South Pasadena Unified School District (SPUSD). In...

CITY COUNCIL SOUTH PASADENA | 10 City Employees Offered ‘Early Retirement’

The South Pasadena City Council on Wednesday authorized its staff to prepare a program of retirement incentives known as “Golden Handshakes” under which ten...

The Arts Are Essential | September 4 – 11

Nederlands Dans Theatre is doing something unique in this time of Covid, by giving us a Livestream of their live programs at Zuiderstrandtheater in...

SPHS Sports Update | Campus Like Ghost Town Without Athletics Says Director Anthony Chan

Thoughts of winning league championships have been replaced by questions of when will the coronavirus end as athletic directors like Anthony Chan continue to...

Letter to the Editor | ‘A Letter from a Local Housing Advocate’

Dear South Pasadena: With all the chaos that has ensued the past six months, I was torn away from my usual activism of fighting for...

A World Less Certain | Brookside Park

Last week, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The incident immediately prompted a...

SPFD UPDATE | South Pasadena Firefighters Continue to Battle Wildfires in California

Firefighters, including members of the South Pasadena Fire Department, continue to gain ground on the SCU Lightning Complex Fire, east of San Jose. As of...

South Pasadena City Council | Stephen Rossi Selected for District 2 Seat

Stephen Rossi, a corporate finance expert whose unsolicited report showing $14 million in discrepancies in South Pasadena’s proposed 2020-21 budget documents sent a lightning...

Los Angeles County Announces Planned Reopenings with Safeguards in Place

MEDIA RELEASE: Los Angeles County is moving forward with new plans for reopening a couple of sectors, given its steady progress in slowing the spread...
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