Arcadia's Best

10/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/promotional-badges-in-the-swearing-in-ceremony

Congratulations to our 11 sworn members of the Arcadia Police Department who received their promotional badges in the swearing-in ceremony!

10/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/fire-department-weekly-report-week-of-january-26-february-1-2025

The Arcadia Fire Department responded to a variety of emergency calls during the weekof January 26 – February 1, 2025. The following is a breakdown of incident types recordedfor this period:Sunday, January 26At 6:04 p.m., Engine 105 and Rescue Ambulance 106 responded to a medical incident inthe 20...

10/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/arcadia-police-department-weekly-activity-report-sunday-january-26th-through-saturday-february-1

For the period of Sunday, January 26th through Saturday, February 1st , the Police Department responded to 1,008 calls for service, of which 108 required formal investigations. The following is a summary report of some of the incidents handled by the Department during this period.Sunday, January 26:...

03/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/mayor-cao-opposes-lario-park-as-hazardous-debris-processing-site

ARCADIA, CA – With little notice, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that Lario Park, located in unincorporated Los Angeles County, would become the site for the cleanup of hazardous materials from the Eaton Fire. Numerous city officials and residents from impacted communities ar...

03/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/arcadia-s-project-updates

Baldwin Avenue Streetscape ImprovementsThe first phase includes the sidewalk, rehabilitation of thestreets, street tree removal, and replacement and theinstallation of electrical lines to light the trees. In December,Gentry Brothers completed the majority of the concreteright-of-way improvements alo...

03/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/city-wide-health-education-series-1

On Wednesday, January 22, the Arcadia City Health Committeehosted a seminar on Stroke Prevention, presented by MatthewTenser, MD. The seminar was held at the Arcadia Public Library andwas attended by 27 individuals. The next seminar, Atrial Fibrillationpresented by Ivan Ho, MD, will be held on Wedne...

03/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/fire-department-weekly-report-week-of-january-19-25-2024

The Arcadia Fire Department responded to a variety of emergency calls during the week of January 19 – 25, 2024. The following is a breakdown of incident types recorded for thisperiod:Sunday, January 19At 7:29 a.m., Engine 105 was dispatched to the 2400 block of Fourth Avenue for a reportof an elec...

03/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/arcadia-police-department-weekly-activity-report-sunday-january-19th-through-saturday-january-25

For the period of Sunday, January 19th through Saturday, January 25th , the Police Department responded to 956 calls for service, of which 107 required formal investigations. The following is a summary report of some of the incidents handled by the Department during this period.Sunday, January 19:At...

03/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/eaton-fire-clean-up-raises-concerns

This week, there has been a lot of discussion regionally regarding the use of a site in Irwindale to temporarily store household hazardous waste from the Eaton Fire zone. Several cities issued a letter opposing the site, Mayor Cao issued a similar letter raising questions about a lack of notice or c...

03/02/2025

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/windstorm-clean-up-continues

In the past few weeks, Public Works Services Department crews have been working hard on windstorm debris clean-up. The map below indicates which streets have been cleaned up by City crews and which streets still need to becleaned. While we would have likely finished the cleanup by now, we have had m...

25/01/2025

Great to see Arcadia teen back at National Figure Skating Championships Thursday and Friday - congratulations to Elyce Lin-Gracey, who attended same Highland Oaks Elementary and Foothills Middle School as Olympic medalist Mirai Nagasu, for finishing in top 10 tonight (8th).

16/01/2025

The work of the army of volunteers and the hundreds of individuals and businesses making big and small donations this week in City of Arcadia has been inspirationally staggering, as you'll see in the 2-min video below of news coverage highlights interwoven with photos and video posts by volunteer organizer Chelsea Hettrick, who has been logging many miles commuting to the center at sunrise every morning and staying till it shuts down after sunset.
The fire relief donation center at Santa Anita Park has been extended to remain open thru Friday for pick-up of supplies 9 am-6 pm Thursday and Friday (Jan 16-17).
The center is not in need of anymore donations and is not accepting any clothing or shoes.

12/01/2025

Proud of Arcadia and Santa Anita Park for coming together in such a major way to help, and to help people who want to help, and our daughter who drove 30 miles at 7 am to the home of her youth to spend the day volunteering here today. Truly Arcadia's Best ...

29/10/2024

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/tentative-tract-map-for-one-gallop-way-mixed-useproject-got-approved-for-one-more-year-at-180-w-hunt

On September 10, the Planning Commission approved a subsequent one-year extension for the tract map. It is the developer’s intent to resubmit the plans for plan check during the first quarter of 2025 and start construction in summer of 2025. These are all tentative dates from the developer. The pr...

29/10/2024

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/city-hall-parking-lot-to-serve-as-check-in-center

As in year’s past, Los Angeles County will be utilizing City Hall’s parking lot as a Check-in-Center for the collection of ballots for a period of 11 days in support of the Election. The Check-in-Center will run from Saturday, October 26 through Monday, November 4, from 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. an...

22/10/2024

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/dengue-cases-in-los-angeles-county-10-7-2024

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating cases of locally acquired dengue in residents of the City of Baldwin Park and El Monte. These residents have no history of travel to areas where dengue is endemic prior to their symptoms. These cases of local virus transmission are....

22/10/2024

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/retirement-of-captain-daniel-crowther

Captain Daniel Crowther retired after thirty-three years of service with the ArcadiaPolice Department. Dan started his career as a Police Cadet in June of 1991 beforebeing sworn in as a Police Officer in October of 1994. He worked variousadministrative and collateral assignments to include the Field...

22/10/2024

https://www.arcadiasbest.com/post/arcadia-police-department-weekly-activity-report-sunday-october-6-through-saturday-october-12

For the period of Sunday, October 6, through Saturday, October 12, the Police Department responded to 934 calls for service of which 111 required formal investigations. The following is a summary report of some of the incidents handled by the Department during this period.Sunday, October 6:At approx...