Despite a tough economy and tight budgets, Russi takes the pitcher-is-more-than-half-full approach to running a local municipality.
On Monday, Aug. 16, the city of La Verne and the community officially welcomed Bob Russi as its new city manager.
In July, the La Verne City Council by a 5-0 vote, named Russi, 44, to succeed Martin Lomeli as city manager in early August. Mr. Russi, who has been the assistant to the city manager [...]
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Hear the name, Nick Stone, and immediately, you think private investigator, like maybe Philip Marlowe in a Raymond Chandler novel.
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Incoming city manager Bob Russi discusses budget and economic development issues and city challenges to deliver services in these austere financial times.
The following is Rodney’s story, and the best part of the story is, it’s not over yet. It’s still developing, and you, the reader, might even play a part.
It’s the story about the presence of God, and letting Him take over when your back is against the wall and your neck is broken. It’s about never [...]
Don’t look now, but if you’re walking around the La Verne Police Department, Bonita Unified School District, University of La Verne, Oak Mesa Park or the La Verne Skate Park and Sports Parks, Mijac Alarm is monitoring your every move.
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Leave it to a mechanical engineering student to figure out how to earn summer cash to help pay for his education at UC Santa Barbara and later this fall at prestigious Imperial College in London, England. Ian Sigsworth, a 2008 Bonita graduate, is working as an independent tutor, helping local students make sense of theorems, [...]
When people want something built right, they’re increasingly turning to a couple of twentysomethings who live and work right here in La Verne.
The latest showcase project of wunderkind contractors Steven Paul, 29 and Paul Pieroth, 27, is going up at 931 Baseline Road in La Verne, a 7,200-square-foot Kiddie Academy Child Care Learning Center that [...]
She may not share the same name recognition as either Dodger announcer Vin Scully or legendary Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda, but Luchy Guerra, the team’s longtime assistant director of international player development — representing less than a handful of women to reach such a lofty position in Major League Baseball before starting her own business, [...]
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Amid [...]
