Scott Phelps

I learned recently that Irma Gutierrez, the office manager at the PUSD Center for Independent Study (CIS Academy), has four siblings and three children working...

Instead of being a means to get someplace else, the parkway became the place to be, a tree-lined plaza where residents gathered for a Sunday stroll. Neighbors...

TodaySupervisor Kathryn Bargertoday Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Friends In Deed’s Executive DirectorPhotostodayhereB-rollherefriendsindeedpas.org...

One book describes how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War.

Caltech, JPL, James Webb Space Telescope astronomers and the Caltech Center for Teaching, Learning and Outreach (CTLO) presented a wonderful week-long astronomy...

The Rose Bowl has announced that the 97th annual July 4th fireworks spectacular, known as Americafest, will not occur this year. By Scott Phelps Pasadena’s...

My colleague at Pasadena USD’s Center for Independent Study, Andrea Reynoso, introduced me to Resolve LAresolvelosangeles.

In working at Pasadena USD’s Center for Independent Study (CIS) since January, I have noticed the relationship between the number of hours students put into...

The City of Pasadena has announced that electricity rates have been raised because of the recent large increase in natural gas prices since gas is used to...

Pasadena Blair’s historic season ended in Round II of the state playoffs on Thursday, March 2. By Scott Phelps San Pedro jumped out to a big lead early on,...

The Armenian Academy at Blair is now in its third year, how time flies! With PUSD’s Enrollment season upon us, I thought I would share with the public...

Minal Saldivar, a Blair High School Senior, has been awarded a full-tuition scholarship through the Posse Foundation. In Fall 2023, she will join the 19th Posse...

In late December 2021, after City staff indicated there was no plan to re-pave the Rose Bowl loop road, I wrote an appeal to the public in a local digital...

On November 18 at a morning school assembly, Principal Rita Exposito announced to students, the school staff and the Jackson community the results of the voting...

Mentoring for Partnership and Youth Development, or MPYD, the mentoring program founded by former Altadena Citizen of the Year Tecumseh Shackelford and others...

Twelve Blair swimmers swam up to 100 laps beginning at about 4:50 pm at the Blair pool on the cool evening of Thursday December 1st for their Swim-a-Thon...