Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Pasadena Village to Host Free Medicare Primer Wednesday as Open Enrollment Nears

Pasadena Village says the session will walk through Parts A through D a month before Medicare’s annual sign-up window opens Oct. 15

Pasadena Village will hold a free public session on the basics of Medicare from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Village Office Community Room, 236 W. Mountain St., #113.

The program, Medicare 101, comes a month before Medicare’s annual Open Enrollment period, which runs Oct. 15 through Dec. 7 and is the window in which beneficiaries can change plans for coverage that generally begins Jan. 1, 2027. Pasadena Village limits attendance to 30 and listed 11 openings Tuesday morning.

Pasadena Village says the presentation covers the basics of Medicare, including what Parts A through D mean, and moves from there to contrasting plans, finding in-network doctors and facilities, reducing prescription drug costs, and enrollment. A question-and-answer period follows.

Pasadena Village describes the presenter, John Dickey, as a licensed independent broker. Federal rules require independent agents and brokers who sell Medicare plans to be licensed by the state,

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Architects to Show Design Concepts for Rebuilt Eaton Canyon Nature Center

The architects designing a replacement for the Eaton Canyon Nature Center will show their drawings to the public Wednesday evening, at the latest in a series of Los Angeles County sessions on the canyon’s recovery.

LA County Parks says Anne Mooney and Ludwing Juarez of Sparano + Mooney Architecture will present design concepts for the new center. Mooney is principal architect and founding partner at the firm; Juarez is a partner and principal.

The Robert M. McCurdy Nature Center burned in the Eaton Fire that began Jan. 7, 2025 and swept through Altadena, and the natural area around it has been closed ever since. Cristhian Mace, a County Parks biologist, said in June that the canyon was not expected to reopen during 2026.

Public feedback, planners and architects are shaping a design meant to take in fire science, history, culture and site planning, The South Pasadenan reported.

The building lost in 2025 was not the canyon’s first nature center. The 7,600-square-foot facility reopened in November 1998,

Monday, September 14, 2026

Black Education Expo Returns to Pasadena Convention Center on October 3

The Black Education Expo returns to the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, Oct. 3, and this year a complimentary bus will carry families from South Los Angeles to the free K-12 education fair, organizers said in a news release.

The expo runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. inside the Conference Center on the lower level at 300 E. Green St. Admission is free and open to the public, and the event is built for students ages 5 to 18, their families, educators, schools and community organizations. Organizers are inviting attendees from across Los Angeles, the Antelope Valley, Orange County and San Bernardino County.

Pasadena Councilmember Tyron Hampton is a co-presenter, organizers said.

Los Angeles City Council District 8, We Grow LA, Education Is Key and Mor Girls With Goals partnered to provide the bus. Riders board at 9 a.m. at the Chase Community Center on Crenshaw for transportation directly to the expo.

“Access is at the heart of BEE,”

Monday, September 14, 2026

With Mail-In Rules Uncertain, Here’s How Californians Can Prepare To Vote In November

By Maya C. Miller, CALMATTERS

Ballots are going out in less than a month, and California remains locked in a legal battle with the Trump administration over the president’s push to rein in universal mail-in voting.

The back-and-forth has some California voters likely wondering whether they’ll be able to vote by mail in this upcoming election. And if so, should they?

In short — yes, mail-in voting will still be an option this year. And yes, it’s still safe and generally reliable, although county election officials are urging voters to send in their ballots as early as possible ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

In case you missed it, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue a ruling that will determine, at least for now, whether President Donald Trump can force the U.S. Postal Service to restrict vote-by-mail ballots in time for the midterm election. Trump wants to create a federal database of registered voters that the postal service would then cross reference to ensure mail-in ballots are only delivered to eligible voters – in other words,

Monday, September 14, 2026

Samaritan’s Purse Taking Applications to Rebuild Up to 100 Altadena Homes Lost in Eaton Fire

Homeowners who lost their primary and only residence in the Eaton Fire have until Sept. 30 to apply

Samaritan’s Purse is accepting applications through Sept. 30 from Altadena homeowners who lost their primary and only residence in the Eaton Fire, part of an effort to rebuild up to 100 homes, the organization said.

The program rebuilds owner-occupied primary residences destroyed in the January 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires and gives priority to uninsured and underinsured families, according to Samaritan’s Purse.

Homes will be built from the Foothill Catalog of floor plans by local California-licensed builders and subcontractors, and a California-licensed general contractor oversees each build, the organization said. Homeowners take part in the rebuilding process and commit to keeping the home as their primary residence. Accessibility features may be incorporated when required.

Applicants do not need an assigned case manager, and the organization’s team will determine whether they meet the program’s eligibility requirements, Samaritan’s Purse said.

The notice appeared in the Altadena Library District’s Aug.

Monday, September 14, 2026

Los Angeles County Supervisors Take Up Two Altadena Items Tuesday

The board is asked to give up a sewer easement near Loma Alta Drive and to extend the emergency contracting authority used for Eaton Fire recovery

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider two items affecting unincorporated Altadena when it meets Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 9:30 a.m. in the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration.

Item 34 asks the board to vacate a sanitary sewer easement south of Loma Alta Drive and east of Dabney Street. The easement covers about 2,562 square feet and has been determined to be excess and no longer needed for public use, according to a board letter from Public Works Director Mark Pestrella.

The vacation was requested by Feng Wang on behalf of the affected underlying property owners to remove the encumbrance on properties impacted by the Eaton Fire and allow for their redevelopment, the board letter states. Public Works reports no impact to the County General Fund. The item falls in the Fifth Supervisorial District and is recommended for adoption under Section 5400 of the California Health and Safety Code and Sections 8333(c) and 8335 of the California Streets and Highways Code.

Monday, September 14, 2026

Turkey Tussle Canceled After PHS Forfeits Varsity Games

By ANDRÈ COLEMAN, Managing Editor

John Muir High School only remaining school with varsity football

John Muir High School Athletic Director Alfredo Resendiz confirmed to Pasadena Now that there will be no Turkey Tussle this year after Pasadena High School forfeited its remaining varsity football games.

The annual game between Muir and crosstown rivals Pasadena High School has been played in the historic Rose Bowl since 1954 for the victory bell, a gift to the schools in 1955 from the Santa Fe Railroad.

The game is considered by some to be the third most culturally significant event in the city behind the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl Game.

“It’s 100% confirmed there is no Turkey Tussle,” Resendiz said.

The announcement comes after coaches at Pasadena High School announced they have forfeited the remainder of their games this season.

The cancellation leaves John Muir as the only high school in Pasadena with varsity football.

Monday, September 14, 2026

Altadena Town Council to Hear Flock Camera Presentation Tuesday

The Altadena Town Council will vote Tuesday on three letters — including one urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a pair of bills setting standards for wildfire smoke damage — and will hear a presentation on Flock cameras when it meets at 7 p.m. at the Altadena Community Center.

The letters would put the volunteer advisory body on record on federal relief work, on state legislation the governor must act on by Sept. 30, and on the construction hours that govern rebuilding across Altadena.

Ramon Bañuelos of the Los Hermanos Bañuelos Charro Team will lead the flag salute, followed by roll call and a vote to approve the agenda. Three action items are scheduled under Corresponding Secretary Kim Yu: a Department of Angels federal relief letter, a letter from Eaton Fire Residents United urging Newsom to sign AB 1642 and AB 1795, and a construction hours letter.

AB 1642, by Assemblymember John Harabedian of Pasadena, would set testing and remediation standards for when a home is safe to reoccupy after a wildfire.

Sunday, September 13, 2026

Pasadena Unified Sets a September 22 Open House on Its 110-Unit Roosevelt Workforce Housing Project

The district’s project page says construction could start as soon as late 2026 with homes ready as early as late 2028; the board’s Sept. 10 actions followed a $24.5 million round of cuts

Pasadena Unified will hold an open house Sept. 22 on the 110-unit employee housing planned for the Roosevelt campus, the district said Friday, days after its board certified 2025-26 finances and sought a classroom-spending waiver. 

The drop-in session runs 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, in the Arroyo Room at Brookside Golf Club, 1133 Rosemont Ave., with project team members answering questions and no formal presentation, according to the district’s Sept. 11 update. The district’s project page says construction could begin as soon as the fourth quarter of 2026, take about 24 months and deliver homes as early as the fourth quarter of 2028. 

The project on the roughly five-acre former Roosevelt Elementary site at 315 N. Pasadena Ave. would provide approximately 110 rental units for teachers and staff in a mix of apartments and townhomes,

Sunday, September 13, 2026

Altadena Sewer Easement, Eaton Fire Emergency Contracting Renewals and the County’s New Recovery Review Head to Supervisors Tuesday

The Board’s Sept. 15 agenda also carries a $20 million malpractice settlement, a motion to name deputy gangs in the Sheriff’s Department and a plan to implement the Hug Act in juvenile facilities

Los Angeles County supervisors meet Tuesday, Sept. 15, with an Altadena sewer easement vacation and renewals of Eaton Fire emergency contracting authority on the posted agenda, and the county’s new recovery review set for discussion.

The 9:30 a.m. meeting in Board Hearing Room 381B at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 W. Temple St., is the Board’s first since its Sept. 8 session was cancelled, and the agenda posted Sept. 9 runs from a $20 million medical malpractice settlement to a motion to name deputy gangs inside the Sheriff’s Department.

Additions were posted on a supplemental agenda, which the Board’s Executive Office announced Friday, are taken up under a separate item.

The Altadena item, from the Department of Public Works, asks the Board to adopt a resolution vacating a sanitary sewer easement south of Loma Alta Drive and east of Dabney Street in the unincorporated community,