Dan Abendschein is the Senior Field Editor for the San Gabriel Valley Patch sites. He has been working as a reporter since first publishing freelance journalism work at several weekly papers on Maui in 2004, and has worked as a full-time journalist in Southern California since 2007.
Originally from New Jersey, Dan Abendschein has lived in Southern California since 2005. Dan spent five years of his childhood in Stockton, CA., and seems to keep moving back to the Golden State.
He completed his undergraduate work at Pomona College in 2002, majoring in Linguistics/Cognitive Science.
After that, Dan spent several years working odd jobs and traveling, living in Washington state and on the island of Maui, while visiting Southeast Asia, New Zealand, Australia, and Central America.
He returned to Southern California in 2005, to attend the University of Southern California's journalism program at Annenberg, received a master's degree in 2007. He then went to work for the San Gabriel Valley Tribue, and later moved to the Pasadena Star News.
A routine traffic stop turned into a rare arrest for possession of pirated movies for sale, according to the Sierra Madre Department police blotter.
The Arcadia Chamber will host Arcadia's congressional representative, Judy Chu, to discuss a proposal to turn parts of the San Gabriel Mountains into a national recreation area.
The commission will be reviewing the 2014-2021 state-required housing element, which requires each city to account for how to build more housing in the city over the next 7 years.
The crime happened during the day in the 600 block of West Sierra Madre Boulevard.
But Latino and black children were more likely to have a daily sugary drink than white and Asian/Pacific Islanders, the study found.
Two were injured and the car sustained major damage, according to the Sierra Madre Police Blotter.
The Baldwin Park School Police aided in setting up a DUI checkpoint in Arcadia
The DUI campaign included a Saturday DUI checkpoint in Arcadia
The closures will reconfigure which lanes are currently closed on the street due to construction of the Gold Line Foothill Extension.
