Arboretum opens Dec. 26

Tweet More than three weeks after closing due to tremendous wind storm damage to 700 trees on Dec. 1, including a loss of 235 trees, the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden re-opened a week ahead of schedule on Monday, Dec. 26. More than 150 workers from multiple public agencies worked with the entire Arboretum [...]

Arboretum wind devastation

Tweet Perhaps the area most devastated by the Dec. 1 wind storm and certainly the one that will take the longest to recover was the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Arboretum CEO Richard Schulhof and Superintendent Timothy Phillips said the Arboretum is closed indefinitely, probably at least three weeks. About half the trees [...]

Bonita Skate Park hours

Tweet Bonita Skate Park, located on Second Avenue and Huntington Drive in Arcadia, will revise hours of operation for the fall school year starting Tuesday, August 30, 2011. The new hours are: Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. – 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. For school holidays and winter and spring [...]

Pool closed till new one in 2012

Tweet The bad news is the pool at Arcadia Park will not re-open this summer, or even next summer. The good news is that an entirely new pool and bathhouse will be built at the Los Angeles County Park, with a ribbon cutting expected in time for a grand opening in the summer of 2012. [...]

President Outdoors Initiative

Tweet Local residents are invited to attend a new Great Outdoors Initiative created by President Obama from 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Thursday, July 8, to suggest and hear ideas for protecting our national parks and surrounding lands, the important role they play in our local economies and communities, and reconnecting Americans to the great [...]

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