For the second time since 2019, Pasadena Media has won the 2021 Alliance for Community Media’s Hometown Media Award in the prestigious category of Overall Excellence in Public, Education or Government (PEG). “I am again extremely proud of our team for being na... More »
City officials are hosting an online meeting Thursday to gather thoughts from residents of the Lincoln Avenue and the Holly Street/Ramona Street neighborhoods as part of Pasadena’s ongoing effort to cool down city streets amid increasing temperatures attribute... More »
Fourteen citywide conventions will come to Pasadena in the next year as the city’s hospitality industry begins its rebound. Groups hosting conventions include the Association of California Water Agencies, the Barbershop Harmony Society, the California Associat... More »
Just under 70% of Pasadena residents over the minimum eligible age of 12 had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Tuesday, officials said. While 69.7% of city residents have been fully vaccinated, 82,8% of the city population has received at least one ... More »
The chair of the Hahamongna Watershed Park Advisory Committee on Tuesday told Pasadena Now that a local sediment removal project is ahead of schedule and is expected to end in November. The committee received an update from officials with the county’s Public W... More »
Ara Maloyan, who helped lead the city’s Public Works Department out of an embezzlement scandal, retired last week after nearly six years on the job. “I really enjoyed working with Ara; he was a consummate professional,” City Manager Steve Mermell said in an em... More »
The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) will provide scholarships to four local students from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Noah Griffin and Tia Reed of John Muir High School will receive the group’s Sharing Initiative Community Schola... More »
I commend Pasadena Now for the new feature The Sunday Read. This is a great idea! It is nice to read more in-depth stories on local subjects of interest. The first feature story, on our city’s history of racial restrictions on property and racial segregation i... More »
An elderly woman died after she was struck by a vehicle while crossing Allen Avenue in Pasadena on Tuesday morning, officials said. The collision was first reported at 8:07 a.m. along Allen Avenue at Las Lunas Street, police said. Paramedics pronounced the ped... More »
In the 1950s, a time when people were turning toward processed foods, organic food industry pioneer Harland Heath of Pasadena was just getting started in the business. Heath, who recently died, was the fifth of 11 children and actually began his career in the ... More »
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 174 new infections and five new deaths on Monday. Figures from the Pasadena Public Health Department were not available. In total, L.A. County has recorded 1,243,882 cases of COVID-19 and 24,339 death... More »
City Councilmembers could choose their oversight commissioners on Monday. Last week Mayor Victor Gordo said that oversight would return to the City Council at the meeting following the Memorial Day break. “My belief is that when the council wanted to have the ... More »
