La Puente News

Paige Oldham, right, along with Cassie Davis, center, kick soccer balls as Nicole Armstrong, left, studies on Adams field as the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District approved a $50,000 grant to replace the Azusa Pacific University field with artificial turf in Azusa, Calif., Wednesday, Feb.

The Planning Commission at a special meeting Tuesday voted not to grant medical marijuana facility La Puente Co-op an extension to its amortization application.

Five year-old Adam McDaniel at his lemonade and cookie stand in La Puente on Saturday, Feb.

At the start of fall semester in September, the grass at Azusa Pacific University's Adams Field would stand firm and green.

GlobeSt.com has learned that real estate financing advisory firm, Lucent Capital , has arranged $11.5 million in first mortgage debt cross-collateralized by two class A retail centers in Palm Springs, CA, and has also has arranged $12.1 million in permanent financing for Villa Las Brisas , a 104-unit apartment community in La Puente, CA.

The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the amortization application for medical marijuana collective La Puente Co-Op at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 15900 E. Main St.

Congresswoman Grace Napolitano, D-Santa Fe Springs, invites all area veterans to attend the informational forum, which is being hosted in conjunction with the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American GI Forum, organizers said.

Council members last year spent nearly $30,000 of taxpayer money attending conferences and lobbying trips in Indian Wells, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, San Francisco and Chicago, city records show.

La Puente Co-Op, at 15524 Amar Road, informed its 460 Twitter followers and patients that as of Monday it will be closed "until further notice." An unidentified employee at the shop on Friday confirmed the closure, but would not identify the reason for it, only to say that it would not be permanent.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis speaks at East Los Angeles College on Thursday.

Principal Gerardo Yepez with students at the newly renovated Northam Elementary School in La Puente.

Councilwoman Nadia Mendoza, who has been on the council since 2007, is not running for re-election because of family obligations, according to city officials.

The yet -to-open La Puente Store Liquor Sober at the corner of Temple Avenue and Glendora Avenue in La Puente on Friday, Jan.

The City Council on Thursday will consider an ordinance that completely outlaws any new bars from opening in the city.

The request came after La Puente resident Lois Maben filed a complaint with the DA's Office last month.

A recovering alcoholics group is protesting the opening of a liquor store across the street from the facility where it has been holding its weekly meetings.

Federal prosecutors recently sent warning letters to property owners and operators who are suspected of running illegal marijuana stores in several Southland communities, including unincorporated Walnut and La Puente, according to authorities.

A bank robbery carried out in Pico Rivera last week has been linked to a serial bandit already believed responsible for two other heists, authorities said.

South Pasadena police pursued and stopped a duo from La Puente early Monday morning after an officer ran the plate of the pair's pickup and found that it belonged to a 2007 BMW.

Thieves with a penchant for copper wire have hit five schools in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District since November.