Sitting in the conference room of the Don Kendrick Real Estate office on Bonita Ave. in downtown La Verne, the mayor is someone who is extremely well positioned. To his left hangs a Burton Frasher panoramic photograph of La Verne taken between 1905 and 1910, according to best estimates. The sparsely settled community shows more […]
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Tim Hepburn. Maybe all you need to know about his candidacy are the last four letters of his last name: B-U-R-N. He’s burning for change. If he were running for the White House and not mayor of La Verne, he would be seen as someone running outside the beltway and politics as usual. “Just because […]
In the eastern San Gabriel Valley, nearly everywhere you go, you’re playing on Matt Lyons’ turf. He has the home-field advantage. He grew up in San Dimas, lives in La Verne, ran a successful business in Upland, and his father is Joe Lyons, a city councilman in neighboring Claremont. He knows the lay of […]
Among the many questions the La Verne electorate will be faced with on March 7 is, does it want a West Point graduate and Gulf War Silver Star winner, who also served on the La Verne police force for 14 years and now conducts forensics classes at Bonita, Lutheran and the Mt. Baldy ROP, to serve on […]
The way that people in La Verne are going to work, shop, shelter, study, dine, drive, commute, recreate and seek medical service could significantly change in upcoming years if development in the city continues at its current pace. Here is an overview of many of the key developments now underway in the City. To help […]
When asked to name the thing they fear most, people often put public speaking — not dying — at the top of their list. Here’s how one insightful person rationalized this dead-over-dread choice: “… I came up with three advantages that death has over speaking in front of a group of people. First of all, […]
In the spirit of famous activists like Ralph Nader and Erin Brockovich, La Verne’s Kate Shelley, supported by more than 100 of her fellow Second and Third Street neighborhood residents, showed up en masse at La Verne City Hall on Monday and persuaded the City Council to abandon a staff proposal that would have created […]
Forget about the results of the national election, there’s more important business at hand. We all need to rejoice over the passage of Measure M, which won with a whopping 70 percent of the vote (okay, 69.82%). At the macro-level, it could create more than 450,000 jobs in the county, fueled by $860 million a […]
A new restaurant offers some novel twists on classic food. This is one fork in the road you might want to take when you’re in Hollywood.
The ALS Association Golden West Chapter is hosting its tenth annual Inland Empire Walk to Defeat ALS® on Sunday, October 6, at The University of La Verne.
