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PASADENA’S ORANGE GROVE ‘ROAD DIET’ NEEDS MORE NOURISHMENT
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Volume 22, NO. 13
PASADENA’S GLENARM POWER PLANT PUBLIC ART PROJECT STALLS Council approves ‘Homeless Incentive Program’; Airbnb TOT agreement Gus HERRERA gherrera@beaconmedianews.com
Pasadena’s newest art installation, the Glenarm Power Plant Public Art Project, hit a speed bump at the city council’s latest regular meeting. The project, an ambitious 44-foot by 76-foot sculpture to be located on the front façade of the power plant’s northern-
most cooling tower, was unable to achieve a consensus amongst the city’s policymakers, in part, due to potential safety concerns. Designed by the New York City artist Alice Aycock, who is world-renowned for her large-scale land art installations, the Glenarm project is envisioned to be an artistic gateway, welcoming those who enter the city SEE GLENARM PAGE 10
Two Pasadena Men Arrested for Attempted Murder
Two men are now in custody after being identified as the suspects responsible for a shooting earlier this month. On March 3, police responded to a “multiple shots fired” call on Los Robles. Detectives found a woman down suffering from
multiple gunshot wounds. Now, two young men are in custody charged with attempted murder. The on-going investigation culminated in the serving of multiple search warrants in the area as SEE ARRESTED PAGE 11
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Residents’ complaints, concerns force city to delay project Terry MILLER tmiller@beaconmedianews.com
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n Thursday, March 22, hundreds of Pasadena residents joined Mayor Terry Tornek, Councilmembers Gene Masuda and Margaret McAustin, and City staff to discuss the proposed Orange Grove Boulevard. “Road Diet” project. Over 100 of the attendees
provided public comment. There will be time for additional public comment before any decisions are made. However, for the reasons set forth below, the second community meeting that was scheduled for yesterday has been put on the back burner due to public concern. As was discussed at the meeting, the proposed timing for the resurfacing of Orange Grove Boulevard, which would necessarily precede any restriping of the street to implement a “Road Diet”, is expected to be postponed for approximately twelve months to allow time for the Water
Signs like these are popping up all along Orange Grove.
SEE ROAD DIET PAGE 10 – Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
Larry Wilson Disses Frosty, and Sierra Madre Dies A Little (Indulgent friends, here is an article I ran on The Tattler blog on Christmas Eve of 2009. I am reposting it now because to me it epitomizes the kinds of gratuitous insults Sierra Madre has endured from Pasadena over the years.) Did Christmas in Sierra
Madre die a little this week? Perhaps you could hear it, a faint wisp of a wail on the winds that sent shivers through so many, yet with few really knowing why. I can only hope that Bill Coburn doesn't know about SEE TATTLER PAGE 11
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