Temple City Senior Dies of Injuries from House Fire
An elderly Temple City man who was hospitalized with burns over 80 percent of his body Friday has died of his burns and smoke inhalation. Wayne Weber, 86, died at the hospital about six hours after the 2:50 p.m. fire at his house on Bogue Street in Temple City. The temple city senior suffered third-degree [...]
Century 21 Village’s Linda Johnson Earns SFR Certification
Andy Bencosme, Managing Broker at CENTURY 21 Village Inc. recently congratulated Linda Johnson, veteran real estate agent for her new certification of SFR (Short sales And Foreclosure Resource.) Johnson has been with Village her entire career with Village has helped buyers & sellers not only in the foothill communities but also the outlying areas. [...]
Police Blotters January 4 – 11
Monrovia PD During the last seven day period, the Police Department handled 568 service events, resulting in 148 investigations. Following are the last week’s highlighted issues and events: Robbery / Assault with a Deadly Weapon On January 7 at 12:02 p.m., officers responded to a business in the 1600 block of South Mountain regarding store [...]
Searching for Gray Whales in Oxnard
It’s that time of the year again; time to gather the pod and head south from the cold waters of Alaska to the warm lagoons of Mexico for better food and spawning. This is of course, if you are a California Gray Whale. But since I’m not, I’ll just stick to watching the migration from [...]
Arcadia Public Library Concert Combines History and Music – Dissonance of War Shows up in Shostakovich Work
Paul Stein, the director of the Classical Kaleidoscope concert series at the Arcadia Public Library, explained to the full house in the Cay Mortensen Auditorium, that the music to be performed by the quintet would be Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet for Piano and Strings in G-minor. He explained that the music would be dissonant, [...]
Monrovia Man Arrested Following Monrovia Bank Robbery Attempt – Bomb Threat Apparently False
FEST (Foothill Special Enforcement Team) which includes members of Monrovia, Arcadia, Glendora and West Covina SWAT, arrest Joshua Locateil , 24, who allegedly barricaded himself inside the Citizens Business Bank in the 100 block of East Huntington Drive in Monrovia on Wednesday morning. The suspect was ordered to strip down to his boxers [...]
Monrovia Bank Standoff Ends, Bomb Scare Suspect Detained
A bank robbery this morning at the Citizens Bank branch in Monrovia at the corner of Huntington Drive and Myrtle Avenue that turned into a bomb threat, with bank employees an patrons having been evacuated, has ended with the suspect being apprehended by Glendora and West Covina SWAT units. According to police, the suspect wrote [...]
Temple City Tribune – January 25th, 2010
Temple City Man who collapsed at City Council Returns Home
Temple City resident Jeffrey Briggs who collapsed at the last meeting of City Council has returned home after being released from the hospital where, for a while, he was in an induced coma. Briggs, 58, was speaking at the podium regarding councilwoman Wong. He collapsed and was assisted by local officials who then transported [...]
Los Angeles County Declared State of Emergency by Acting Governor Brown
Acting Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. proclaimed a state of emergency in Los Angeles County on Thursday as yet another in a series of storms hit Southern California. The rains have caused minor mudflows in the local foothills. The proclamation was made by Brown as Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Washington DC. The act will [...]
