818 Roundup: Americana criticized over vendors’ apparel referencing Armenian Genocide; Bob Hope Airport tenants
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Good morning, 818! Today is Friday, March 13, 2015. Temperatures for today are expected to reach a high of 89 degrees and a low of 61 degrees with partly cloudy skies in the evening, according to the National Weather Service.
Here are your local headlines:
The management team at Americana at Brand is taking heavy flak from the local Armenian community after allegedly telling a cart vendor at the outdoor mall to stop displaying T-shirts and hoodies for sale that referenced the Armenian Genocide that happened a century ago.
A decadelong “tolling period” that allowed the Bob Hope Airport to lease a portion of a 58-acre property for commercial uses ends Sunday, meaning more than a dozen tenants will have to vacate.
Two longtime members of the La Cañada Flintridge City Council will say their farewells and two new faces be welcomed to the panel when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday in City Hall.
Funeral services for Violeta Khachatoorians, the 4-year-old girl fatally struck in a hit-and-run collision on Friday, are scheduled to take place next week.
As Glendale school officials continue to make sweeping changes to implement the new Common Core curriculum, the school district recently reinstated a task force of teachers to closely examine the mathematics curriculum.
Local parents are hoping to virtually resurrect on Facebook a teen employment program that shuttered its doors on the La Cañada High School campus in December, after organizers claimed it presented too many liability issues to continue.
In July, athletes will descend upon the city of Los Angeles for the 2015 Special Olympics Summer Games. But, due to logistics and competition rules, the 140 or so Olympians competing in the Games’ equestrian events will not be allowed to bring their own horses.
- Police released surveillance photos Thursday of a woman, clad in medical scrubs, who stole several cosmetic products from CVS Pharmacy by concealing them in a baby stroller, police said.