Monrovia News

QUICK: Name someone who's famous for nothing. I'll bet that was easy. Now, here's a bigger challenge: Name someone who has served in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The memorial for Michael Jackson may be a tough ticket live, but it shouldn't be hard to find it on television.

I don't know what it is about the end of fiscal years in government circles that inspires a rash of retirements, but it seems to hold true in our town.

A local company's bird is still flying. The Department of Defense has extended Monrovia-based AeroVironment Inc.'s contract to design and build a prototype for the government's Nano Air Vehicle program, the firm announced Wednesday.

A chalcedon checkerspot butterfly was one of 874 butterflies sighted by a group of volunteers during the ninth annual NABA Butterfly Count in Monrovia Canyon Park on Saturday, June 27.

Wendy Morales and her husband, Thomas, had a first home in their grasp last week.

Researchers are studying creatures that fly through the night in hopes of making tiny flying spies.

As business owners struggle with todaya s economic reality that many customers cana t or wona t pay as much for products and services, some are finding creative ways to keep customers loyal and get them spending again.

Monrovia Association of Fine Arts invites everyone to its 2009 Summer Art Walks from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays, beginning this Saturday and continuing on July 25 and Aug.

Gabriel Garcia, 9, top right, looks at a book with his father Ernesto Garcia, 33, at the new Friends of Monrovia Public Library bookstore located in the new library building on Myrtle Avenue.

For those who like their nightlife on the earlier side, check out happy hour at the Brass Elephant bar inside Monrovia's Aztec Hotel, a refurbished historic structure built for modern-day fun and games, complete with full bar and ice-cold beer.

The city council Tuesday night approved participation in a pilot program that will give the city a one-year lease of two electric Mini Coopers for $10 a month each.

The new 28,000-square-foot Monrovia Public Library brings with it a permanent home for the Friends of Monrovia Public Library bookstore.

THE budget clock is close to striking midnight while the governor and legislators of both parties still can't agree on how to balance the state budget.

A dilapidated building along what was once Route 66 has been renovated by an architectural firm planning to use the former gas station as its new U.S. headquarters.

Hundreds of people lined up Wednesday morning for a food giveaway held by Henry's Farmers Market to mark the opening of its 30th store, at 400 W. Huntington Drive.

The city council voted Tuesday to adopt a $60.7 million budget that will eliminate 22 city positions through layoffs, hiring freezes and early retirements in order to help close a $2.6 million budget deficit.

A suspect in the 2008 shooting of a Monrovia boy -- one in a string of racially motivated gang shootings that plagued Monrovia and Duarte in the early months of that year -- was in court this week for the scheduled start of his attempted murder trial, but trial was postponed until August, prosecutors said.

The first pedal-powered flight over the English Channel almost didn't happen when mechanical failure and the pilot's own leg cramping threatened to ground the Gossamer Albatross 30 years ago.

Miyachi Unitek, based in Monrovia, Calif., announced that Andrew Dodd has joined the company as senior sales engineer.