Sierra Madre News

AFTER reading the online comments to my Sunday column about the public schools, Pasadena Unified board member Renatta Cooper responded with concern.

America turns 233 years old this Saturday, meaning it's time to throw a party. Pasadena's fortunate to be the home of Americafest, one of the largest fireworks celebrations in the country, and for the 80th year running offers a full day of family fun.

Bethany Church of Sierra Madre, 93 N. Baldwin Ave., hosts a free adoption and foster ministry resource fair from 5:45 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. July 15.

City officials have made Sierra Madre the latest city in the San Gabriel Valley to pass increased restrictions on where sex offenders can live.

Hubby looked at me funny when I told him I was attending a retreat given by a Buddhist priest at a Catholic retreat house.

If it were up to several San Gabriel Valley officials, citizens would watch fireworks not from their street or back yard, but at a public display staged by professionals.

There's no confusing politics like school confusing politics. Few have the time or the inclination to become information junkies about exactly how our publics are funded and governed.

Theatre Review Intense and thought provoking, the Pulitzer Prize winning play "Proof" by David Auburn explores the mysterious area of the brain that shimmers between genius and madness.

Sierra Madre's annual Fourth of July celebration will feature a fly over of vintage planes, a parade, bands, games, food, drink and more.

The arrest of developer John Leung on alleged fraud and forgery charges could railroad the future of a $1 billion transit center in the city.

Read more on business and the economy in the San Gabriel Valley, Whittier and beyond at our Economic Alert blog .

Abstract An inexpensive means to further understand the geometry of active faults in southern California arises from the use of aftershock recordings to image crustal structures.

Two weekends ago, a "science-faith" think tank called Reasons to Believe staged a fascinating conference at Tenth Avenue Church, an evangelical protestant church in Mount Pleasant.

A suspect's hands were left bloody after he broke into a vehicle this morning, police said.

But despite competitive and financial challenges, nearly all the region's Catholic HS seniors are headed for college.

A man threatened to kill two police officers after he was arrested for a hit and run and driving under the influence Sunday, police said.

Mayor MaryAnn MacGillivray will deliver the "State of the City" address at a chamber of commerce breakfast mixer from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Thursday at Hart House at Memorial Park, 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd.

Hollywood renegade Sam Peckinpah's favorite film was John Huston's 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre,' and when he co-wrote and directed his own tale of avarice gone awry, the 1974 thriller 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,' Peckinpah found a cinematic descendent of Humphrey Bogart in the character actor Warren Oates, whose volatile mix of machismo ...

The city is seeking resident volunteers to serve on the six commissions established to advise and assist the City Council in dealing with specific problems, officials announced.

PAYING scant attention to a good guy who sits 10 feet away from my desk two days a week, Business section reporter Ryan Carter, I had no idea last week that he was writing about Altadena cultural entrepreneurs trying to bring a vitality to the town's Lake Avenue the same day I was lamenting its failure to be much fun or work as a pedestrian ...