Claremont Mayor May Seek Anthony Adams’ Assembly Seat

Claremont Mayor May Seek Anthony Adams’ Assembly Seat

Corey Calaycay, the Mayor of Claremont, is considering a run for the California State Assembly seat currently held by retiring Assemblyman Anthony Adams. Adams had promised to serve for only two terms and is keeping that promise even after overcoming recall attempts. Calaycay said that he is in the process of making a decision regarding [...]

Monrovia City Band Was Rose Parade’s First

Monrovia City Band Was Rose Parade’s First

Pasadena may have the Tournament of Roses, Arcadia may boast of being the home of the Rose Queens and Sierra Madre may have a prize winning float, but what’s a parade without a band? That’s were Monrovia comes into the picture.  Well, maybe not this year, but the first band ever entered in the Rose [...]

Kick Off Set for Gold Line Extension to Azusa

Kick Off Set for Gold Line Extension to Azusa

A kick off for the extension of the Metro Gold Line from Pasadena out to Azusa has been set for this Saturday, November 21 at the site of the future Monrovia Gold Line Station in the historic Santa Fe Station at the Northwest corner of Myrtle Avenue and Duarte Road.  The family friendly celebration will [...]

Griffith Park, A Little Something for Everyone

Griffith Park, A Little Something for Everyone

“It must be made a place of recreation and rest for the masses, a resort for the rank and file, for the plain people. I consider it may obligation to make Los Angeles, a happier, cleaner and finer city. I wish to pay my debt of duty in this way to the community in which [...]

Earline Mountjoy

Earline Mountjoy

I was lucky to get to know Earline Mountjoy. I say I was lucky in that she was not an easy person to get to know, not that she was unpleasant. Quite the opposite. Earline was a quiet person who was content to be a supporter of the things she loved rather than the star. [...]