Duarte News

Volunteers from Promise: The Alliance for Youth and the Duarte Area Resource Team will distribute reusable grocery bags from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Nov.

Incumbents lead in early election returns Tuesday in Duarte, Temple City, Rosemead, Montebello and Garvey school board races.

The city of Duarte and Congresswoman Judy Chu will celebrate Veteran's Day at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov.

A shorter, more intense course of whole-breast radiation works as well as the traditional six-week course, at least for some early-stage breast cancers, a new study shows.

Incumbents Ken Bell and Reyna Diaz won back their seats in the Duarte Unified School District race.

With one exception, incumbent city council members led in South El Monte and Duarte in early election returns Tuesday night and dominated in Irwindale, where all ballots except 19 provisionals had been counted.

Three Duarte City Council incumbents will retain their seats. Six challengers finished behind council members Margarey Finlay, Tzeitel Paras-Caracci and Phil Reyes with all precincts reporting late Tuesday.

Brandon Wesselink is looking to create a fast-food sonic boom in Southern California.

Rep. Judy Chu, D-El Monte, will join Duarte leaders and the community in honoring veterans and those currently serving in the military at a Veterans Day ceremony at 9 a.m. Nov.

A community lecture about lung cancer treatment will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov.

THE small Duarte Unified School District - about 4,300 students - is surrounded by generally higher-performing districts.

EVERY year that we folks on the editorial board interview school board candidates, the same plea crosses our ears: If only parents would get more involved in their children's education.

California's stem cell research effort today climbed over the $1 billion mark with its whopping disease team round.

An alleged gang member was shot in the arm Tuesday. Deputies found out after officials at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia called the sheriff's Temple station about a man with a gunshot wound who turned up at the hospital.

Direct Pack Inc/PMC Global, Starbucks Coffee Foodservice, Sysco LA, Frito Lay, Hilton Garden Inn, Access Group, the Individual Group, Fresh Choice Produce, Hint support this year's Walk for Hope with the donation of products and volunteers.

Three once-powerful members of Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in San Diego.

The city attorney and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has jointly filed for a gang injunction to restrict the activity of members of two local gangs.

A jobseekers workshop will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at Duarte Community Center, 1600 Huntington Dr.

DUARTE city politics run hot and cold, between celebrating the small-town virtues of an unusually diverse and often charming foothill village and deep, nasty squabbling over divisive issues that are real, imagined and somewhere in between.

The Rodney Dangerfield of transportation projects is finally getting a little respect.