San Marino News

They arrived armed with e-mails, exposes and plenty of emotion. More than two dozen residents, incensed that the San Marino City Council and staff are considering a contract with the County of Los Angeles for animal control services, thus ending a 55-year relationship with the Pasadena Humane Society.

SAN MARINO NEWS A free bulky item pick-up day is scheduled for San Marino residents on Saturday, July 18.

Label for H. H. Reynolds' Red Elephant tobacco, printed by Isaac Friedenwald , ca.

Harriet Hosmer's recently rediscovered marble statue, "Zenobia in Chains," now on display at the newly expanded Huntington Library's VirginiaSteeleScottGalleriesof American Art, proves that women hold an important place in history.

Author Peggi Ridgway will present a history on the Los Angeles Flower Market at 2 p.m. July 12 in the Barth Community Room at the Crowell Public Library, 1890 Huntington Drive.

Even those of us fortunate enough to still have a good job and a nice place to call home have been affected by the economic challenges of the past 10 months.

From the moment results of the May 19 special state election were announced, Gov.

Try as it might, the most resilient June gloom in recent memory couldn't manage to put a damper on the spirits of San Marino High School's graduating Class of 2009, who spent their final official day on the venerable campus last Friday with commencement exercises followed by a truly dazzling Grad Night, themed 'Indiana Jones.' It was the graduates' ...

SAN GABRIEL VALLEYWIDE NEWS The San Marino Tribune will once again honor the memory of J.P. Blecksmith when hundreds of runners and walkers depart the start-finish line for the fourth running of Tribune's J.P. Blecksmith Leadership Foundation 5K Run and Walk at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 4, 2009.

Dr. Jeng Yen, a member of the San Marino School Board since December, 2005, has told The Tribune he will seek a second term at the November, 2009 election if enough candidates file election papers.

Their annual pilgrimage to the parking garage at Wells Fargo Bank is as reliable as the return of the swallows to Mission San Juan Capistrano, or the buzzards to Hinkley, Ohio, but only I and maybe two other people who read this paper - one being my mother - will understand that last one.

The latest in a series of pedestrian safety deployments by the San Marino Police Department yesterday resulted in the issuance of 186 citations for failure to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk, the impounding of four vehicles, the arrest of three drivers and the booking of one driver who had an outstanding warrant at the LAPD.

A San Marino resident became close to being the victim of what bank executives are calling a growing trend to dupe unsuspecting customers of thousands of dollars, if not more.

A photographer documents the newly opened Corpse Flower. The Corpse Flower after reaching over six feet nine inches, opened it leaf base fully releasing a foul fragrance resembeling rotting flesh at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., Wednesday.

Both boys came down with a horrendous cough on the last day of school, so these first lazy days of summer vacation find us in a haze of humidifier steam, with the kids stooped over more steam from their warm drinks.

The Day of the Dead may have found its official flower. Thousands of people are flocking to Huntington Botanical Gardens near Los Angeles to catch a glimpse -- and a whiff -- of a rare event: the blooming of a corpse flower , which, when fully bloomed, emits a strong odor of rotting flesh.

Jun 19, 2009 11:05 am US/Eastern SAN MARINO, Calif. 1 of 1 A rare "corpse flower" has people lining up eagerly for a glimpse and a whiff of the stinky bloom.

A so-called corpse flower known for its rotting flesh odor has begun to bloom at The Huntington Library in San Marino.

Facing multibillion-dollar state funding cuts, school districts across California are asking residents to tax themselves to fund local schools.

Talk of the Nation , June 12, 2009 Botanists at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., are predicting that their rare and ultrasmelly "corpse flower" will bloom any day now.