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Week in Review: Candidates, a Banquet Hall and a Wipeout Winner

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At Glendora High School, the number of Hispanic students has increased 14 percent over the last decade. Since 2000, the Hispanic and Latino student population has doubled at Glendora Unified.


Glendora public works officials say they won’t be able to keep the city streetlights on for long without taking a significant hit to the city’s budget. The city council voted during its Feb. 22 council meeting to cover $56,000 in street lighting electricity bills, rather than put it to a city vote in June to increase residential parcel fees.


The Glendora Planning Commission delayed a vote on a proposed banquet hall on Route 66 to address parking and other operational issues on the project. The proposed 8,300-sq-ft facility will be built on the current site of a 93-year-old former mortuary, which will be demolished once development begins.

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A Superior Court Judge in a Santa Ana courtroom denied Glendora High baseball player Nicholas Wagner eligibility to play with his team at the start of his senior season Tuesday afternoon. Judge Franz Miller sided with CIF attorneys by ruling that playing sports is a privilege and not a right.


Glendora police stopped a man in a hospital smock who had run away from a Glendora nursing and rehabilitation center from boarding a bus Tuesday morning.


For the third year in a row, the Glendora Unified School District school board unanimously approved teacher layoffs, eliminating an estimated 30 teaching positions Tuesday in anticipation of up to $2.5 million in budget cuts.


Glendora police are warning motorists to keep cars parked in a garage if possible as high gas prices leads to higher incidents of gas siphoning by thieves.


Anthony Traficante braved the icy waters, dizzying contraptions and bruising courses to win the hit game show.


Statewide cuts to education have had a severe effect on counseling services at Glendora Unified middle schools.


Candidates discuss third party contracts and which ones they support.

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