Week in Review: Top Pasadena Stories of the Week

The Editors of Pasadena Now go through over 100 articles published this week on our site and cull the top 56 most newsworthy, informative, and readable.

Top Stories:

Arroyo Seco Weekend Unleashes Supercharged Line-Up This Weekend

Interim Chief Perez Details Policing By the Numbers at Committee Meeting

Former Levitt Pavilion Pasadena is Down, But Not Out

It’s Back to the Drawing Board After Civic Center Task Force Report Fails to Galvanize Consensus

What Should Pasadena’s Civic Center Look Like? Task Force to Present Recommendations to City Council Monday

A Place Where Anything is “POSiBLE”

Board Chairman: Pasadena Museum of California Art Was Financially Unsustainable

Leslie A. Ito Named New Executive Director of Armory Center for the Arts

Interim Pasadena Police Chief Will Report Drops in Both Crime Rate and Complaints Against Police at City Committee Meeting

Top Stories of the Week 1 Year Ago

 

Government:

Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Votes 7-0 to Approve 2018-19 Fiscal Year Budget

Pasadena’s Luke Walker’s Barber & Beauty Care Honored as Small Business of the Year

Portantino’s Armenian Law Student Scholarships, Genocide Education Funding Proposals Adopted in State Budget

Pasadena’s Emergency Management System Prepares for the Worst, Will Present Updated Planning Tonight

City of Pasadena Introduces SmartBoot Technology to Recover Unpaid Parking Violations

Council Unanimously Approves 2019?s $815 Million Fiscal Year Budget

City Department Ramps Up to Implement Pasadena’s Commercial Cannabis Program, Says New Dispensaries Can Apply Later This Year

Pasadena’s New “Transit-to-Trails” Route 88 Bus Service Proves Successful, Transports Over 600 Riders Per Weekend

 

Education:

ArtCenter Student’s Futuristic Running Shoes Cross Design Award Finish Lines

Pasadena City College Graduation Rate Highlights African American Achievement

Pasadena City College Issues Armenian Genocide Resolution

 

Community News:

Huntington Hospital Partners with Pasadena Fire Department, American Heart Association for CPR Training at Paseo Pasadena

Pasadena Sees Over 1,000 U.S. Citizens Sworn In at Convention Center

Registration Open for YWCA Pasadena Girls Rise Leadership Camp

Chubby Cat That Broke the Internet is Adopted Out to New Family Wednesday

Thursday Comes the Solstice Officially Starting Summer, Bringing With It Warming Weather

Pasadena’s Innovation Community to Celebrate Five-Years of New Resources to Attract Tech

Pasadena Museum of California Art to Close Doors October 7

Pasadena City College’s Black Employees Association Awards Scholarships at 40th Anniversary Celebration

Designers Announced for “Setting the Table: The Art of Conversation “

Successful Home Tour for Altadena Guild for Huntington Hospital

Pasadena’s Hillsides to Host Client Open House in New Arcadia Office

Orchestras and Operas will be Explored During Summer Term of the Masters Series at Pasadena Senior Center

Pets of the Week at the Pasadena Humane Society

Stirring National Drum and Bugle Corps Competition at Rose Bowl Brings Together 1,400 Performers

Altadena’s Air Quality Ranked Healthiest in L.A. County

In Face of Large Blood Donor Decline, Local Red Cross Launches #MissingTypes Campaign

 

Business Top Story:

Pasadena’s Embodied Gets $22 Million to Develop Wellness Care Robots

Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre Winner of Spring 2018 Digital Health Awards

Pasadena-Based Parsons Completes Purchase of Defense, Intelligence Contractor Polaris Alpha

Pasadena Foothills Association of Realtors Hosts Quarterly Technology Membership Breakfast

 

Public Safety:

Three Woman Shoplifting Gang Pepper Sprays Store Manager, Flees, But Is Caught Trying to Escape on Freeway

Restaurant Owner Confronts Female Robber, Fight Ensues

Bernard Melekian, Former Pasadena Police Chief, Appointed to New Post in Santa Barbara County

Pasadena Police Release Sketch of Suspect in Vicious Home Invasion Attack and Robbery

Man’s Jewelry Stolen in Grab-and-Run Strong Arm Robbery

Pasadena Ninth Circuit Judges Allow Child Slave Labor Lawsuit Against Choclatiers Nestle, Cargill to Proceed

Man Punched, Robbed of Cellphone Along Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena

An Argument Between Two Men Results in Hit and Run Accident Early Sunday

Two Men Arrested in String of 8 Car Burglaries at Rose Bowl

Vicious Home Invasion Robbery by Two Gun-Wielding Robbers Leaves Pasadena Man with Major Injuries

 

Faces:

Bruce Blomstrom, Co-Founder of Pasadena BioScience Collaborative, Dead at 80

Pasadena Executive Director Named “Inspiring Leader” by Center for Nonprofit Management

Neil Young Announces Warm Up Shows in Santa Barbara Leading Up to This Week’s Arroyo Seco Weekend

 

Giving Back:

“Family Guy” Creator Donates Millions to Pasadena-Based KPCC, Also NPR After Expressing Disdain for Fox News via Twitter