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Hometown-Pasadena sold by Prospect Park Books

Pasadena-based Prospect Park Books is selling its online magazine Hometown-Pasadena.com to Kat Ward, the site’s managing editor. Prospect Park publisher Colleen Dunn Bates created Hometown-Pasadena.com in 2006 as a companion to the book Hometown Pasadena, the first book published by her company. Ward is a writer and photographer based in South Pasadena.


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