Altadena News

Nina Middlebrooks, center, instructor for children with autism helping children wash their toy animals Friday November 20, 2009.

Three charter schools and one Early Head Start program in Altadena have been approved for stimulus funds from the Recovery Act .

The ninth step of Alcoholics Anonymous requires alcoholics to make amends to people they harmed during their plastered past.

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Page 5 of the Pasadena Star, an evening newspaper, carried the story of Countess Rothes, a survivor of the Titanic wreck who reached Los Angeles that afternoon aboard the Santa Fe Limited.

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It's that time of year. People start seeing recipes for maple-glazed Brussels sprouts or ginger butternut squash and be sure to let the turkey sit half an hour before carving so the juices settle back in.

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich on Friday scolded U.S. Forest Service officials for grounding aircraft during the early stages of the Station Fire, which scorched 160,000 acres, destroyed 100 homes and killed two Los Angeles County firefighters.

There was a lot going on in Pasadena on May 15, 1912 - the day workers poured the concrete foundations for what would become the Herkimer Arms apartments on Union Street.

There may be public open spaces in the Southland with more competing governmental bodies, interest groups, nonprofits, private concerns and sheer numbers of people interested in the way it's going to look and feel in the future than Hahamongna Watershed Park.

Over the years, business at Twin Palms in trendy Old Pasadena boomed, the restaurant hosting parties during the holiday season and entertaining busloads of tourists in town for the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl game New Year's Day.

Foothill Unity Center, 415 W. Chestnut Ave., is seeking donations of turkeys for its largest Thanksgiving food distribution ever Nov.

Jonna Doolittle Hoppes, granddaughter of Jimmy Doolittle, and a panel of World War II heroes including 89-year-old Vi Cowden, one of the first women to fly military aircraft, and Tuskegee Airman Claude Davis, at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the community room at the Altadena Library, 600 E. Mariposa St.

The Station Fire that swept across the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena and Altadena has opened new concerns about what to do with non-native trees in Hahamongna Watershed Park .

Film and television star Robert Wagner will discuss and sign copies of his best-selling autobiography, "Pieces of My Heart," at 2 p.m. today at Altadena Senior Center, 560 E. Mariposa St.

Right where Pasadena and St. John avenues divide, there's a fork in the road. It's about 18 feet tall and looks like stainless steel.

Altadena resident Mike Freas was twice rejected for health coverage by Anthem Blue Cross because of a preexisting condition, forcing him into a costly state-run program intended to serve as the insurer of last resort for people turned away by the private sector.

I didn't find a lot of options in Altadena, but just over the Pasadena border... READ/REPLY >> New to LA , some specific questions ), or to Mijare's on Pasadena Avenue, another been-here-forever magarita mill that's been serving the stuff your grandma called Mexican since she was younger than you are.

A masked gunman held two gas station employees at gunpoint during a robbery Sunday, authorities said.

Mount Wilson Observatory Superintendent Dave Jurasevich, who stayed on the mountain during most of the Station Fire, shared his unique perspective on the blaze Sunday.