By Tyler BIDDLE and Charly SHELTON Wanda Bergstrom can be found most days at City Hall Coffee Shop on Honolulu Avenue in the Montrose Shopping Park where she has worked for over 40 years, becoming something of a celebrity to the community. “These are the reasons I can’t quit,” she said, gesturing to the morning […]
Author Art Cobery at Glendale Library As Crescenta Valley residents gathered to ring in the 1934 New Year, a cloudburst broke over Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains, unleashing a deluge on the mountainsides denuded by recent fires. A roaring wall of rocks, mud and water crashed down the canyons, uprooting trees, tossing boulders and automobiles […]
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Senate Rules Committee Selects former Assemblymember & former filmmaker for Commission Sacramento ~ The Senate Rules Committee, Chaired by Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, appointed former Assemblymember Anthony Portantino to the California Film Commission. Portantino had represented the State Assembly on the Film Commission until terming out of office on December 1, 2012. Prior to his […]
Glendale Water & Power (GWP) recently revamped its Smart Home Rebate program and is now offering customers rebates on appliances and home improvement products online. The Smart Home Energy and Water Saving Rebate program helps customers save money by giving them rebates on energy and water efficient appliances and upgrades. Currently GWP is offering rebates on nine eligible […]
The Los Angeles County Public Works Department has re-opened the following roads in the Angeles National Forest that were closed on February 7 due to snow and icy conditions: • Angeles Forest Hwy from SR-2 (Angeles Crest Hwy) to Aliso Canyon Rd • Big Tujunga Canyon Rd from Angeles Forest Hwy to Vogel Flats […]
The Los Angeles County Public Works Department has advised that based on the forecast of snow and icy road conditions, it will close public access to the following road segments in the Angeles National Forest effective tonight, Thursday, February 7, 2013, at 9 p.m.: • Angeles Forest Highway from SR-2 (Angeles Crest Highway) to Aliso […]
For the next three weeks, CVW will be looking at the 100 years of Montrose; how the town has grown and changed, and how it has remained the same. We will look at why families moved here, why they stay or why they return, the movies that were filmed here, the memories that have been […]
Feb. 1 Community Avenue and Raymond Avenue in La Crescenta, a man was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana concentrate [hashish]. Deputies allegedly witnessed the man sitting in his vehicle, smoking an unknown substance out of a black pipe at 8:07 a.m. Jan. 30 3000 block of Santa Carlotta Street in La Crescenta, a […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Burglary suspects attacked a man after he surprised them at his home on Tuesday night. A resident in the 2900 block of Frances Avenue entered his home about 7:15 p.m. and found two men inside his residence. “The [two male suspects] were inside burglarizing the home. The homeowner came home and confronted […]