Altadena

70 W. Mendocino St., Altadena 91001 Listed for: $435,000 Size: Two bedrooms and one bathroom in 858 square feet Lot size: 5,361 square feet Features: The 1924 single-story home has arched windows, hardwood floors, mountain views and a detached storage room. Short sale is contingent on bank approval. MLS ID: 22120915 2142 Mar Vista Ave., Altadena 91001 Listed for: $799,000 Size: Three bedrooms and three bathrooms in 2,370 square feet Lot size: 9,168 square feet Features: The traditional-style house, built in 1948, has hardwood floors, crown moldings, plantation shutters, a bay window in the living room and a brick fireplace with a wooden mantle.

Acting on a tip, authorities seized several pounds of homemade candy containing marijuana in a raid on an Altadena home. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies also arrested two people at the home in the 500 block of Figueroa Street on Friday. Their names have not been released. Among the items taken by deputies were buckets of suckers, chocolate bars and equipment used to make them, along with bags of marijuana. “When it came in the smell was real big in the station for a time,” said sheriff's Sgt. Booker T. Hollis.

It would be easy to miss this newsroom of the future. It's disguised inside a graceful wood shingle home, just beyond the living room crammed with children's toys, tucked on one side of a modest kitchen. From this modest perch in a woodsy section of Altadena, beneath the towering San Gabriel Mountains, Tim Rutt has created a blog that has made him the talk of his community and the latest star of the kind of hyper-local journalism that is sprouting around America. Rutt's banner moment came a few weeks back, when the Station fire roared across the mountains above Altadena and his altadenablog.

During World War II, Nazis and Hungarian collaborators looted major artworks from the vast collection of Jewish banker Baron Mór Lipót Herzog. His great-grandson David de Csepel is on a quest to get them back. De Csepel first saw some of these paintings almost two decades ago in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, where Herzog had lived. Plaques identified works by El Greco and Zurbarán as "from the Herzog Collection. " "It was very strange seeing paintings that were stolen from my family hanging in the museum with my great-grandfather's name on these plaques - unsettling, to say the least," said De Csepel , a 46-year-old real estate developer who lives in Altadena.

Deja vu? Actor Wentworth Miller recently sold a place in Hancock Park. Now he is ready to make another break and has listed his home in Altadena at $1.59 million. The Mission Revival-style house, built in 1910 and set on more than three-quarters of an acre, is described as "attributed to Myron Hunt. " The master suite takes up the entire second floor of the 4,558-square-foot house, which has a total of three bedrooms and four bathrooms. Miller, 40, starred in the 2010 film "Resident Evil: Afterlife" and will star next year in the thriller "The Loft.

Acting on a tip, authorities seized several pounds of homemade candy containing marijuana in a raid on an Altadena home. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies also arrested two people at the home in the 500 block of Figueroa Street on Friday. Their names have not been released. Among the items taken by deputies were buckets of suckers, chocolate bars and equipment used to make them, along with bags of marijuana. “When it came in the smell was real big in the station for a time,” said sheriff's Sgt. Booker T. Hollis.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has announced plans to open a Neighborhood Market grocery store in Altadena, part of a concerted push by the world's largest retailer into the competitive California supermarket business. The 28,000-square-foot store will be located at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Figueroa Drive in a space once occupied by a thrift store, the company said Thursday. “We think Wal-Mart can be part of the solution in the Altadena community for residents who want more affordable options close to home," said Steven Restivo, Wal-Mart's senior director for community affairs.

Sometimes, the peach on a backyard tree is just a peach, a sweet, home-grown bonus. In certain circles of Altadena, though, that peach is a gateway fruit. One tree becomes three, which becomes an orchard. The quest for organic fertilizer leads to a flock of chickens, which beget a garden. Before you know it, there's a herd of goats out front, heritage turkeys in back, a beehive, a rabbit hutch and a guard llama. This isn't just growing your own, a few clay pots on a condo balcony, say, or a tomato patch next to the rose bed. It's full-on urban homesteading, people raising fruit, produce and livestock in the city, and nowhere in Southern California has it taken off like in Altadena.

Now I remember what it is that I miss about living in the San Gabriel Valley: It was the traditional trip up to Altadena each year to visit Nuccio's ("A Patented Beauty," Jan. 11). Thanks for the memory, Bob Smaus! ELINOR LYNCH Palm Desert

While awaiting a recommendation from the Town Council that would raise the height limit on front yard fences and shrubs, the county has suspended 12 citations and will not issue any more in Altadena, Ollie Blanning, senior field deputy to Supervisor Mike Antonovich, told the council Tuesday. In January, the council directed the land-use committee to come up with a recommendation to change the existing 3 1/2-foot front-yard height limit unless the fence or bush presents a safety hazard.

Re "Scouts fought background screening," Dec. 2 How sad to see the Boy Scouts of America join the Roman Catholic Church as an organization professing good while shielding evil. I am an Eagle Scout and the father of an Eagle Scout. If I'd known 20 years ago what your articles have uncovered, I wouldn't have allowed any of my children to join this dangerously hypocritical organization. I should have resigned as well. James Willwerth Altadena ALSO: Letters: Paying for TV we don't watch Letters: Going to the mat for rich taxpayers Letters: Israel's largesse for the Palestinians

Deja vu? Actor Wentworth Miller recently sold a place in Hancock Park. Now he is ready to make another break and has listed his home in Altadena at $1.59 million. The Mission Revival-style house, built in 1910 and set on more than three-quarters of an acre, is described as "attributed to Myron Hunt. " The master suite takes up the entire second floor of the 4,558-square-foot house, which has a total of three bedrooms and four bathrooms. Miller, 40, starred in the 2010 film "Resident Evil: Afterlife" and will star next year in the thriller "The Loft.

Ian White was taking his toddler son up into the hills above Altadena when he spotted the long-lost gravestone of abolitionist Owen Brown in a dirt patch off the trail. Owen Brown survived the ill-fated Harper's Ferry raid led by his radical abolitionist father John Brown and later retreated to a hilltop rancho in Altadena. When he died in 1889, he received a hero's funeral. His lonely grave site is in the scrub on a hill above Altadena named Little Round Top, after the strategic hill at the battle of Gettysburg.

Dinner was nearly on the table, but Veronica Nuno had forgotten ingredients for the salad. The 54-year-old Altadena resident headed for a nearby market, warning her husband, "We're going to pay an arm and a leg. " Nuno, a teacher, usually treks to the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Rosemead for food bargains - sometimes seeing prices half what is charged at other groceries. She is counting down the months until the Wal-Mart grocery opens in her hometown. But not all her neighbors share her view.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has announced plans to open a Neighborhood Market grocery store in Altadena, part of a concerted push by the world's largest retailer into the competitive California supermarket business. The 28,000-square-foot store will be located at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Figueroa Drive in a space once occupied by a thrift store, the company said Thursday. “We think Wal-Mart can be part of the solution in the Altadena community for residents who want more affordable options close to home," said Steven Restivo, Wal-Mart's senior director for community affairs.

The Altadena certified farmers market, which opened last Wednesday afternoon after weeks of anticipatory buzz, is innovative and deeply idealistic. It showcases more than half a dozen small urban farms, most of which are selling at a farmers market for the first time, and the quality of its more established farms is high enough to draw shoppers from across the region. Of the dozens of new farmers markets that open in Southern California each year, all but a few are cookie-cutter affairs, featuring vendors familiar from other markets; more often than not, the primary motive is to draw foot traffic to nearby businesses or to generate profits for the organizers.

The Church of Altadena has been served with a court order to vacate its site because of failure to pay rent for several months to the Pasadena Unified School District, which owns the property. School board trustee Noel Hatch said that the church owes the district about $43,000. He said attorneys for the district and the church are discussing the possibility of an agreement on payment of the back rent, but the church must vacate the property which it has used for three years at 725 W.

Re "Private pain made public," Opinion, May 24 I can understand Meghan Daum's qualms regarding the public dissemination of information about a personal medical crisis such as that suffered by Aimee Copeland, who contracted necrotizing fasciitis. However, I can equally imagine that the blog Aimee's father wrote during her ordeal was the way he was able to cope with the horrifying spectacle of the body of his daughter being systematically hacked away, piece by precious piece.

Re "Court takes up bid of illegal immigrant to be attorney," May 17 Sergio Garcia, an undocumented immigrant who passed the State Bar of California exams to practice law, is a perfect example of someone who would benefit from a federal Dream Act. Not only is he a model citizen, he's a smart one too. Why should this young man wait up to 15 years to become legal and then a lawyer? He should be admitted to the bar now, and a certificate of citizenship should be attached.