By Mary O’KEEFE A man and two women walked into the Vons market in 2000 block of Verdugo Boulevard in Montrose and stole several items from the liquor aisle. The man and two women are clearly seen on surveillance video entering the store and walking to the liquor aisle. The man selected several bottles of […]
By Robin GOLDSWORTHY On Thursday afternoon the 3300 block of Montrose Avenue was shut down while an investigation was conducted after a possible bomb was discovered in a vehicle. According to Sgt. Kevin Hirano of the Glendale Police Dept., officers were following up on a call when they arrived at a home in the 3300 […]
Get ready for the Fourth Annual Montrose Film Festival taking place this weekend. By Mary O’KEEFE The Fourth Annual Montrose Film Festival will be held this weekend at the former site of the Montrose Theater in the 2200 block of Honolulu Avenue. From 1924 to 1987, the Montrose Theater was a popular fixture along the […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU Just what, exactly, is the best technique when it comes to watermelon seed spitting? Sabrina Gonzalez might know. She has been working the watermelon seed spitting booth at the Lions Club Sunland-Tujunga Watermelon Festival for the past five years. The key to successful watermelon seed spitting is, she said, getting a […]
By Ted AYALA The Glendale City Council passed a resolution Tuesday expressing its opposition to the proposed shuttering by the United States Post Office (USPS) of its historic Glendale Central Post Office at 313 E. Broadway. Built during the height of the Great Depression in 1932-1934, the Neo-Renaissance style Central Post Office has become, along […]
Calendar’s Full Despite Summer’s End The Crescenta Valley Weekly has been buzzing with activity these past weeks. Tallying the ballots cast by our readers for their favorite services, people, places, etc. – The Finest – has been keeping us pretty busy. We’ve had over 13,000 votes submitted and now that the counting is done, CV […]
“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it And wrong too often for us to rely on it.” – Patrick Young Temperatures climbed toward 100 degrees last weekend. You may recall, according to Weather in The Foothills, daytime highs were predicted to be in the mid 80s. […]
By Michael YEGHIAYAN People living in Los Angeles may bemoan their daily commute through the city’s notoriously stagnant traffic. Compared to the injustice uncovered by local resident Sebouh Bazikian, a teenager who helped provide 43 bicycles for a group of Kenyan orphans who made a daily two-hour walk to school, the tragedy of the 405 […]
By Ted AYALA Staff from Glendale Public Works, the engineering section of Glendale Water & Power, and Maintenance Services Urban Forestry came together at a meeting on Aug. 14 at city hall to discuss infrastructure improvement plans for Cañada Boulevard. The improvements would stretch along the length of the thoroughfare near Sparr Boulevard past Towne […]
As veterans from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars watched, four stone slabs were installed on the nearly completed Two Strike Park War Memorial Wall this week. The last piece to be placed will be the bronze plaques with the names of those Crescenta Valley military men and women who paid the ultimate […]