Rafik Tadros, vice president of Glendale-based Investors Title.
Mary Stratton (not her real name), a divorced mother of two, was out $5,900 after writing a check to cover the first and last month’s rent and the security deposit on a 3-bedroom, 2-bath Upland, Calif., home she thought she was leasing from the nice homeowner who handed her the keys.
It turns out the friendly, [...]
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Man found out millennia ago that meat tastes better cooked, but only more recently did the same species discover that cooked meat and a host of other items that can be smoked, seared, grilled, roasted or baked — from pizza dough and cookies to pulled pork — taste better on a Big Green Egg.
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Not only is Micky Rehm, owner of Mickey’s Jewelry Studio, La Verne’s business of the year, but also Micky is an amazing gemologist and gemological historian. Did you know that emeralds are purported to quicken your intelligence and keep you eternally young and that rubies will make you invincible, especially if you happen to be a Burmese [...]
Last week, baseball tryouts were canceled at high schools and Little Leagues across the Southland, washed out by an unremitting and unrelenting series of Pacific storms. Perhaps, no one felt more frustrated than a couple of La Verne fathers, Deron Marquez and John Carranza, whose dream is to open an indoor Frozen Ropes (www.frozenropes.com) baseball [...]
On the northeast corner of Fruit Street and Foothill Boulevard where the closed Michael J’s restaurant now sits, a Panera Bread Bakery Café (PNRA) is expected to open in La Verne by June 2010, “with hopes that it might be sooner,” the City of La Verne has announced in its Dec. 23 “Blue Sheet.”
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President Obama has signed legislation to extend the Homebuyer Tax Credit. Passage of the bill is expected to further spur economic recovery in the housing sector, as more buyers are now eligible for tax breaks under the new law. The $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit was originally set to expire on Nov. 30.
In addition to [...]
Sweet Smell of Success: Now you no longer have to go Oak Glen to taste great apples. Sinfully Sweet Apple Co, which specializes in Gourmet Caramel Apples, just opened in La Verne in the Stater Brothers shopping center where Maggie Moos used to be. While Maggie’s was delicious, Sinfully Sweet Apple Co. offers guilt-free desserts. [...]
La VerneOnline.com, La Verne’s only daily online newspaper featuring “more news, views and coupons you can use,” reported its fifth consecutive increase in the number of unique visits to the website since launching in April 2009.
In August, we logged almost 20,000 monthly unique site visits,” LaVerneOnline Publisher Peter Bennett reported. “Every day more and more [...]
CNN.com is one of the world’s largest and most respected news sites with instant-breaking news on politics, entertainment, travel, crime, business, health, science, sports and other news you care about. Also on the CNN home page under “Local,” you can find CNN/Topix stories pulled from LaVerneOnline.com. That’s right, CNN is linking to LaVerneOnline.com articles on [...]
Linco Picture Framing, Inc. was named 2009 San Dimas Improved Commercial Building of the Year by the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce at its Annual Awards Dinner at the Sheraton Suites Fairplex in Pomona on June 3, 2009. Linco is a member of the La Verne Chamber, as well
Linco’s building was constructed in the 1980s [...]
