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 non-fatal shooting that happened on Mariposa Street on Monday was likely the result of gang-on-gang violence, according to the Sheriff's Department.
In Altadena, the unemployment rate was 7.7 percent in April 2012.
The Pasadena Star-News reports that a lawsuit has forced the Forest Service to consider curbing off-road recreation and abandon trails and roads going unused to focus more on wilderness preservation.
A Monrovia man has been arrested on suspicion of killing Altadena resident Edward Santana on Dec. 27.
The Pasadena Star-News reports that a lawsuit has forced the Forest Service to consider curbing off-road recreation and abandoning unused trails and roads to focus more on wilderness preservation.
The Pasadena Star-News reports that a man was injured in a shooting Monday afternoon.
The Pasadena Star-News reports that a lawsuit has forced the Forest Service to consider curbing off-road recreation and abandon trails and roads going unused to focus more on wilderness preservation.
The Pasadena Star-News reports that a lawsuit has forced the Forest Service to consider curbing off-road recreation and abandon trails and roads going unused to focus more on wilderness preservation.
The Pasadena Star-News reports that a lawsuit has forced the Forest Service to consider curbing off-road recreation and abandon trails and roads going unused to focus more on wilderness preservation.
Curious where all the police helicopters overhead take off? You can visit the Altadena heliport of the Pasadena Police Department for the department's open house event on June 2.
Some photos from yesterday's eclipse. And we want to see yours.
As part of the Altadena Community Visioning workshop process, participants highlighted the below items as key priorities for Altadena's future.
Here's all the information you need for the 2012 Pasadena Marathon on Sunday from the route, to street closures, to schedules and everything else.
Here's when Los Angeles County residents can view the first solar eclipse visible in the U.S. in 18 years.
The Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy will hold four hiking tours at different hours on Saturday on new land that it is raising funds to purchase in Millard Canyon.
The Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy, which has several projects in Altadena, is currently looking for help to establish a nature preserve above Montrose-La Crescenta.
Pasadena Alliance of African American School Educators will be honoring students at Altadena' Metropolitan Baptist Church on June 3.
Pasadena Unified held an open meeting Thursday on how to deal with the news that it will need to close San Rafael Elementary because of seismic concerns. Reopening Loma Alta was discussed.
Here's all the information you need for the 2012 Pasadena Marathon on Sunday from the route, to street closures, to schedules and everything else.
Altadena's current congressional representative, Adam Schiff, and likely next representative, Judy Chu both signed a letter urging Metro to fund the Gold Line all the way to Claremont.
