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Local stargazers escape to the desert
They traveled more than 200 miles from the San Gabriel Valley to reach one of the darkest corners in Southern California. Three hours before sunset on Saturday, half a dozen amateur astronomers unloaded telescopes onto a concrete platform next to a...
Tags: Astronomy, Saturn, Mojave National Preserve
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La Caņada Library still serving its purpose
La Caņada was one of the first communities in Los Angeles County to lend books to residents, setting up a library at the back of a general store in 1913. The library was located at the intersection of Union and Michigan avenues, near the current...Tags: Human Interest, Libraries, Arts and Culture
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Judge rules in favor of JPL scientists disciplined for emails sent from work accounts
Scientists and engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory were unfairly disciplined for sending emails about a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving background checks at the agency, a judge has ruled. The ruling comes after the JPL employees...
Tags: NASA, Judges, Labor Legislation, Justice System, Science
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Les Tupper awardees announced
Two young women who attend La Caņada High School and aspire to work in the healthcare industry are to be honored with other active community volunteers at the Les Tupper Awards next week. Honored this year are Huntington Hospital volunteer Andrea Klein;...
Tags: YMCA, Awards and Prizes, Libraries, New Year's Day, Culture
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Merit badges? He's got 'em all
Last week, Harold Kast earned a Boy Scout merit badge in game design. To achieve this, the 17-year-old junior assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 509 played and studied games and designed his own math-based card game. In doing so, the La Caņada High School...
Tags: Youth Organizations, Boy Scouts of America, NASA, Social Organizations
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Tech parents guide the next generation of space engineers
Palm Crest Elementary School sits four miles away from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where a team built and developed the Mars rover Curiosity, the largest machine sent to another planet. But engineers at the La Caņada Flintridge lab may have...Tags: NASA, Science and Technology, Education, Students, Elementary Schools
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JPL: NASA Curiosity rover back to work after Martian spring break
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has emerged from its "spring break" and is back to work, officials at Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. Up next on the agenda: Drilling the second target at Yellowknife Bay. The Mars Science Laboratory mission made...
Tags: Amina Khan, NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program
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No E-ticket for JPL
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's annual open house allows space geeks and budding young scientists a rare peek inside the missions behind the La Caņada Flintridge facility. But the popular event, scheduled for June 8 and 9, has been canceled because of...
Tags: Adam Schiff, NASA, Science and Technology, Science, Space Programs
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Flintridge Proper: A restaurant for La Caņada
On a recent Saturday night at Flintridge Proper, well-dressed couples and multi-generational families occasionally left their tables or bar stools to talk to people they knew across the room. The 3,000-square-foot La Caņada Flintridge bar and restaurant...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, McDonald's
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JPL open house, felled by sequestration, costs about $400,000
Bracing for “significant impacts” to funding for public outreach programs next year, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory decided to cancel its hugely popular open house in June. The cost savings? Roughly $400,000 for the two-day event. The...
Tags: Adam Schiff, NASA, Science and Technology, Money and Monetary Policy, Google+
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory inventory check shows stolen NASA laptop
A laptop belonging to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Caņada Flintridge was allegedly stolen from a contract employee last summer, but the agency didn't realize it was missing until an inventory was conducted in January, officials said. JPL hired...Tags: NASA, Theft, Inventories
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JPL, citing sequestration cuts, cancels popular open house
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is suspending the open house that had been scheduled for June 8 and 9, making the popular yearly gathering the latest casualty of the automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration. The “difficult decision&...
Tags: NASA, Eryn Brown
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