4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (755+ words) Under hot starry summer nights, larger-than-life plant props move to live vocals as actors from the Altadena Music Theater perform “Little Shop of Horrors” for sold-out audiences. The nearby cemetery and headstones are a fitting outdoor setting for the horror-comedy…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (338+ words) Pasadena Unified School District Friday, Sept. 4, announced that it would not be moving forward with the planned removal of protected trees at Longfellow Elementary School. In the space of five days the district went from announcing that alternative methods of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (829+ words) A report published this week by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute found that a fragmented network of recovery resources has contributed to slowing down the Altadena community’s rebuild from the Eaton fire. Researchers analyzed more than 1,200 GoFundMe campaigns…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (821+ words) Don’t mess with Erica Warnock and Teresa Fuller. Both Altadenans have enough on their plates post-Eaton fire. But they’re taking more on anyway. Bound by a need to be useful to others, the duo are doing two things at once:…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (750+ words) Altadena Town Council members on Tuesday, Aug. 18, voiced concern over the lack of current funding to help offset costs to local homeowners from Southern California Edison’s ongoing utility undergrounding work. At the council’s monthly meeting, Ciara Barnett, a representative of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (841+ words) Emmanuel, Emma and Vincent Alvarado each grabbed a guitar, a suitcase of unmentionables and a safe when fleeing their Taos Road home in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 7, 2025. “We’ve had fire here many times, but it was always up the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1650+ words) At a June Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education meeting in the wake of a failed effort to consolidate schools, trustees, weary from weeks of controversy and pushback over a process that many felt was unfair, reflected on what…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (879+ words) Professionals wearing protective gear treated the walls of the Dangerfield family’s home in Altadena on Friday, Aug. 14, removing embedded soot and ash particles, while workers used regenerative bioremediation to rid the backyard of dangerous levels of lead. The Dangerfield’s home…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1048+ words) Not all soil at Pasadena public school campuses’ outdoor areas will be restored and opened by the time school starts next week after a summer-long project to clean up areas found to be contaminated after the Eaton fire, officials said…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (490+ words) The Los Angeles County Fire Department concluded in reports released Tuesday, Aug. 4 that electrical arcing on an out-of-service Southern California Edison transmission tower sparked the January 2025 Eaton fire. Fueled by fierce Santa Ana winds, the Eaton fire killed at least…...