Sierra Madre News

Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry 3111 Los Feliz Avenue, #206, Los Angeles, CA 90039 Contact person: Dr. Frieda Jordan Phone: 663-3609 Email: info@abmdr.net ABMDR wine-tasting event draws enthusiastic community support Elegant fundraiser hosted by Vicken and Salpi Mankerian Los Angeles, June 14, 2013 - Over 300 wine connoisseurs and supporters ... (more)

The long-awaited construction of Sierra Madre Middle School will begin next month, after the Pasadena Unified School District board approved a $27.89 million contract -- $5 million over budget for the project.

There has been another bear sighting in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

PASADENA >> After a yearlong search, federal officials have named Options, a veteran Pasadena nonprofit agency, to take over local the Head Start programs that have been under emergency management since the previous operator abruptly closed all its 15 local sites in October 2011.

"The Fantasticks," one of the American musical theater 's most endearing and enduring musicals having had a 46 year run with a re-opening in 2006 in New York.

In what came as a surprise to some and an outrage to others, the Pasadena Board of Education selected a longtime contractor with the Pasadena Unified School District to fill the at-large board seat remaining following the move from at-large to district-only elections.

When a river gets dammed up by one generation, it can sometimes take the work of several more generations to get the water flowing again when priorities change.

Mikala Rahn, the founder of Learning Works charter school, will join the Pasadena Unified School District board after she was appointed Saturday to fill the remaining two years of a vacant seat.

A beautiful purple haze: Britain's longest wisteria vine bursts into life after reaching a staggering 252ft along giant garden wall But she's had to endure further six-year wait for the bush to burst into full bloom near Witham, Essex Stretching across the garden like a waterfall of colour, this incredible 252ft wisteria bush has taken an amateur ... (more)

Wisteria is best known and loved around the world for its dramatic and fragrant pendulous clusters of lavender-blue blossoms at springtime.