Lots of good energy and high spirits filled the Loma Alta Park gym as students attended Black College Night Thursday. The night was an opportunity for students to meet students and alums of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Penny Daniels of the Loma Alta Park staff, who helped organize the event, received a certificate [...]
Parents and kids gathered in the Altadena Library Thursday afternoon to "Read for the Record" — joining readers around the country reading the same book on the same day. This year it was Eric Carle's classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, read by librarian Cassandra Stearns, which, even after 40 years in print, has the power [...]
From Alice Wessen, moderator of the Chaney Trail listserv: Chaney Trail listserve reports that there have been separate recent sightings of both the hunter known as “Rambro” a middle age, black male driving a maroon van, and another hunter, matching the following description: white male, husky build in camo-gear, with a backpack, wearing a large [...]
US Geophysical Survey has put out a report on the danger of mud flows (links to summary, but a pdf is available at the site). And, says reader Chip Ossman, who alerted us to this document and has been following this story: Once again, the world has ignored Altadena, reducing us to "three basins east [...]
That's the musical question asked this week by LA Weekly's Jill Stewart (love her or hate her — we've been fans for years). Opposing agendas, fire crew rivalries, enough fishy information to fill the White House email box — no answers, but lots of questions being asked. Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
About 250 people packed the auditorium at Webster Elementary School Wednesday night to hear detectives from the Altadena sheriff's station talk about the rash of thefts and burglaries plaguing the east side of town. And — for the first time publicly — the sheriffs linked the crimes to organized street gangs: the Altadena Denver Lanes [...]
After the fire, the next thing we have to worry about is mud: the US Geological Survey has issued a release on what to expect once substantial rains start. Some neighborhoods aren't out of the woods yet. Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
What's going on in your world? Dish! Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
Got this message from readers Bill & Kit Fisher: I just called the Angeles Forest office and found out that our trails are open–Echo Mountain (to Inspiration Point, it seems), Henninger and several others. It's hiking time again! Just thought all the readers would like to know. Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
PSN's education reporter Caroline An looks at Jackson Elementary's participation in Walk to School Week. (Of course, when we were young, we walked to school uphill … both ways … in the SNOW!) Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
