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South Pasadena High School Drama Delivers A Big-Hearted LEGALLY BLONDE
South Pasadena High School’s production of Legally Blonde is a fizzy, pink, sugar rush of a cocktail that serves up plenty of high octane...
SPUSD Snapshot | Several Awards Won by SPHS SkillsUSA Team
Congratulations to the South Pasadena High School SkillsUSA students who recently competed in the 52nd Annual State Leadership and Skills Conference on April 25-28,...
City Council | South Pasadena to Consider Fee Increases and Approve...
South Pasadena City Council members tonight will hold a public hearing on a new master fee schedule. The change will increase annual revenue by...
SPUSD School Board | Members in Support of Starting School Later
South Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education members have voted to support a senate bill to require middle and high schools to not...
New Police Chief Joe Ortiz Takes Part in Ceremonial Oath
It has been overwhelming “in a good way,” emphasized South Pasadena’s new police chief Joe Ortiz, when asked what it has been like since...
Love and Support For Family of Sarah Wong, killed in Crane...
Sympathy notes are pouring in on social media and in emails following the death of South Pasadena resident Sarah Wong after a construction crane...
South Pasadena Police Department | Tactics Prevent Apparent Suicide Attempt
South Pasadena police officers were quick to respond to an apparent suicidal victim reportedly holding a knife to his throat inside an apartment in...
Nationwide Measles Outbreak | SPUSD Takes Precautions
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new numbers this week, South Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent Geoff Yantz said his...
SPHS Basketball Coach Ryan Lee Resigns | Search for Replacement Begins
Ryan Lee, who guided South Pasadena High’s boys’ basketball program the past two years, has stepped down as the Tigers’ coach.
Lee, who graduated with...
Darby Jean Rubin | A Short Life Well Lived and Loved
When it comes to thank you notes, there may not be another more heartfelt than the one received by the South Pasadena police and...
Los Angeles Kubb Club | 4th Annual West Coast Kubb Championships...
Lesson No. 1 when learning the game of kubb is its proper pronunciation.
That’s a good starting point for those looking to attend the sport’s...
LOCAL COVERAGE | Suspects Arrested: Unlawful Transportation of Marijuana
Five squad cars and several officers responded to a suspected vehicle - a White Dodge Charger - at approximately 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 24,...
SPHS Track & Field Sets Sights on Finals | The Team...
They simply don’t lose.
No really, South Pasadena High School’s track and field team at all levels – frosh/soph, boys and girls varsity – won’t...
Throwback Thursday | The Great Hiking Era
During the first half of the 20th century, the local mountains were alive with hikers, health and adventure seekers – much like today. The...
SPUSD Snapshot | SPHS Varsity Virtual Enterprise Team Places First in...
Congratulations to the South Pasadena High School (SPHS) Varsity Virtual Enterprise team who recently won first place at the National Business Plan competition in...
Grammy Award Winner at the Library Carnegie Stage | Jazz Singer...
The Library Carnegie Stage Concert of the South Pasadena Eclectic Music Festival & Arts Crawl on Saturday, April 27, will showcase jazz singer extraordinaire Luciana...
Armenian Genocide Month | City Recognizes Day of Remembrance on April...
On April 24, 1915, the Turkish Government perpetrated against Armenian people what is commonly referred to as the first genocide of the 20th century,...
Legally Blonde Opens Friday April 25 | A Heartfelt Musical That...
“Expect to see something fun!” exclaims senior Wressey Baugham, “I firmly believe that this show is going to make you laugh, you’ll be amazed,...
SPARC’s ‘Night of 100 Artists’ | A Feat of Artistic Features
“ A night of legends, and legends yet to be ”
A beautifully apt way of describing SPARC’s “Night of 100 Artists”, a massive undertaking...
SPHS Tigers Baseball | Building Community Through Youth Program
Teamwork, perseverance and effort all add up to success.
That was the message delivered last Saturday as South Pasadena High baseball coach Jaime Garcia and...
SPPF ‘Architecture of Faith’ | Gearing up for the Historical Church...
As part of the SP Preservation Foundation's ongoing mission of connecting the public with the history of South Pasadena, SPPF is back with another...
Eggstravaganza! | Easter Tradition Brings Many to Garfield Park
It was an Easter egg hunt with a unique name in Garfield Park last Saturday.
Eggstravaganza, a longtime holiday tradition, was a hit!
The city’s Community...
SPHS Shortcut Pathway to Close | City Council Votes to Restrict...
A walkway from Fremont Avenue to Diamond Avenue through the South Pasadena High campus, which had been opened for years, will now be closed...
Elementary Students Weigh in on Parking Meters in South Pasadena
Some like the idea, others not so much.
As it turns out, even kids are weighing in, taking a swipe at the idea of parking...
Citizen’s Police Academy | Officers and Citizens Bridge the Gap
Bridging the gap between the community and the South Pasadena Police Department is the purpose of a 10-week program designed to expose participants to...
LOCAL COVERAGE | Suicidal Man Disarmed by South Pasadena Police
South Pasadena Police officers yesterday successfully disarmed an apparently suicidal man who was holding a large kitchen knife, allowing him to be transported for...
Throwback Thursday | Burn! Burn! Burn!: The Raymond Hotel’s Historical Firestorm
On Easter Sunday in 1895 (124 years ago this week), South Pasadena’s Raymond hotel went up in flames. It was the most massive single-structure...
Eclectic Music Festival & Arts Crawl | Brad Colerick Builds Community...
In recent months Brad Colerick’s email has been filled with messages from musicians interested in playing in the 11th Annual Eclectic Music Festival and...
Opinion | Reconsidering the Bank Street Surrender at SPHS
Buried on the South Pasadena City Council’s consent agenda tonight is a resolution to surrender, or “vacate,” a 600-foot section of Bank Street, a...
The Travel Expo 2019 | 10 Reasons to ‘Say Yes to...
Think about the last conference you attended. It was probably for work… full of stuffy professionals in suits handing out business cards and making...
