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Los Angeles County To Launch Loan Program To Help Stabilize Small...
The Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) will launch the Small Business Stabilization Loan Program on January 28, 2021. The loan program is made...
A Holiday Tradition | Holy Family Gives Back at Christmas
It’s a weekly occurrence at the Holy Family Church Giving Bank in South Pasadena where long lines – socially distanced, of course – form...
Building Height Limits on Council Agenda | Critical City Plan Issue
By Ron Rosen, South Pasadena resident:
EDITOR'S NOTE: This letter was written to apply to June 3rd's Council meeting which was postponed until Wednesday, June...
Schools | South Pasadena District
Assemblymember Holden Introduces Legislation to Create State School Nurse Consultant at...
Media Release
Today, Assemblymember Chris Holden introduced, AB 285, legislation that creates a State School Nurse Consultant within the Department of Education to oversee school nurses...
Interview with New Mayor Diana Mahmud | Working on Making 2021...
In a small city such as South Pasadena, “the position of mayor is overrated,” says 5th District Council Member Diana Mahmud, who was selected...
UPDATE: COVID-19 Hits Home | South Pasadena Police Department Official Bayron...
Sadness is felt throughout South Pasadena and beyond its borders following the announcement that Police Assistant Bayron Salguero died last Saturday due to complications...
Letter to the Editor | ‘Demand for a Local Ordinance to...
By South Pasadena Tenants Union (SPTU)
The undersigned ask the City Council to pass a straightforward, modest measure to stem the tide of evictions without...
South Pasadena News | Featured Articles
Los Angeles County To Launch Loan Program To Help Stabilize Small Businesses
The Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) will launch the Small Business Stabilization Loan Program...
Interview with New Mayor Diana Mahmud | Working on Making 2021 a Better Year
In a small city such as South Pasadena, “the position of mayor is overrated,” says...
A World Less Certain | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Like many of you, I have an insatiable itch to time travel and explore the...
SPUSD Registration Process Starts Soon
SPUSD PRESS RELEASE
The registration process to enroll students in South Pasadena elementary schools for the...
South Pasadena Relatively Unscathed After Powerful Winds in Area
It was an especially active time for utility companies after reports that thousands of Southern...
Wine & Song at Blue Guitar | Tune in!
Blue Guitar presents Wine & Song podcast #38. This week's episode features Luke O’Shea, Beth...
UPDATE: COVID-19 Hits Home | South Pasadena Police Department Official Bayron Salguero Will be Missed
Sadness is felt throughout South Pasadena and beyond its borders following the announcement that Police...
Films.Dance | International Film Series Launches January 25, 2021
The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts and the Wallis Annenberg Center...
South Pasadena Resident Counts Down To Inauguration
Calling herself a “Quarantined Town Crier”, Amy Davis Jones created themed banners to count down...
Lots To Love About “YOU I LIKE: A Musical Celebration of Jerry Herman”
Legendary Broadway composer, Jerry Herman, creator of beloved shows Hello, Dolly, Mame, La Cage aux...
SCAG Update | South Pasadena Appeal of Housing Allocation Denied
South Pasadena’s appeal for a 41 percent reduction in the 2,062 housing units it must...
SPUSD Snapshot | First School Nurse Receives COVID Vaccination
On January 13, 2021, the South Pasadena Unified School District Nurse, Abby Silver, received the...
SPHS Sports Update | Athletes Hopeful Games Will be Played This Year
Remaining hopeful that sports on campus will begin in the days ahead, student athletes at...
COVID UPDATE South Pasadena | 1000 Cases and Growing
UPDATED ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 14
Over 1,000 South Pasadenans have been infected with the novel coronavirus....
Arts Are Essential | What’s Happening in Entertainment January 15 – 22
You I Like: A Musical Celebration of Jerry Herman, a virtual musical revue honoring the...
A World Less Certain | It’s Time To Put The GOP Out Of Its Misery
A hypothetical conversation between friends over text.
BERNARD’S TEXT TO A FRIEND
Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol...
Matilda: An Online Musical Showcase
South Pasadena Educational Foundation and Upstage Theatre Schools present the South Pasadena Unified School District...
Another Dodger Great Remembered | When Tommy Lasorda Came to South Pasadena
It’s a moment in time Steve Fjeldsted will never forget, recalling that warm summer night...
Rose Parade 2022 | SPTOR Crunch Time Party Virtual Auction Raises More than $33,000
Brant Dunlap described it in one word, talking about the outpouring of support from those...
VIRTUAL PRESS CONFERENCE | BLM Activist Shot by LAPD Officers During George Floyd Protest in L.A. to Sue
MEDIA RELEASE:
A Black Lives Matter activist who was repeatedly hit with a baton and shot...
South Pasadena Public Library Announces Winter Children’s Programs
The South Pasadena Public Library offers three opportunities to engage children and teens this winter....
Griffins of Kinsale | Owner Sentenced in Court for COVID Violation
Griffins of Kinsale owner Joseph Patrick Griffin, who on March 17, 2020 became possibly the...
Editorial | Violence Hits Home: News Staff ‘Trumped’ With Threats
“Do you wanna die today?”
So much for providing decent news coverage to those seeking to...
SCAG Recommends Denial of RHNA Reductions | City of South Pasadena
Saying most of their arguments are precluded by law, staff of the Southern California Association...
New City Council Member | Jon Primuth Actively Making a Difference in South Pasadena
Actor Denzel Washington once said: “At the end of the day it’s not about what...
A World Less Certain | Mother Mary
My mother's birthday is Monday. She suffers from the advance stages of emphysema. Sometimes she...
Team Historian Mark Langill Remembers Sandra Scully, Beloved Wife of Famed Dodgers Announcer
Among the many who will miss Sandra Scully, the wife of Hall of Fame announcer...
Rep. Judy Chu Statement on Presidential Certification and Assault on the Capitol
MEDIA RELEASE
Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) issued the following statement on Congress’s certification of the election...
Arts Are Essential | What’s Happening in the New Year
It certainly is a new day and a new dawn as we kick off 2021...
COVID-19 Update and School Reopenings | Superintendent Geoff Yantz
Dear SPUSD Families,
We hope you and your families had a relaxing and safe Winter Break...