Getting Reacquainted After an almost one-year hiatus, CV Weekly returned to the Harvest Market on Sunday. It was November 2011 that we last had a booth on Honolulu Avenue. I remember it well – a dreary, wet Sunday with very little foot traffic. Coming into the holiday season, we knew that all of our calendars […]
~ At twelve o’clock you must be ready, and hold your pumpkin steady. For by its rays of candlelight, On Halloween all things are bright! ~ From a vintage postcard Redwoods, pumpkins and rainbows. Common theme here ? Absolutely … Last weekend found us in the northern most reaches of California, the wilds of […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The Tiny Tots program at Crescenta Valley Park has no plans to become a certified daycare and will keep its shortened hours until December, according to the County of Los Angeles. Contentious meetings and several emails from angry parents to L.A. County Parks and Recreation special assistant Kay Michelson demonstrate that the […]
The Los Angeles County Fire Department has published Engineering our Future, a strategic plan to address the Department’s goals and priorities in its desire to provide more effective emergency services to the millions of residents its serves each day. The 52-page report sets goals for preventing injury and illness, innovating new delivery systems, ensuring the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Those traveling from the Newhall area using Interstate 5 and Highway 14 may experience major delays due to several big rigs that were involved in an accident early this morning. At about 3:07 a.m. this morning two big rigs jack knifed blocking all lanes on the southbound I 5 and the State […]
“The preparations are what they are. We’re here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.” ~ Lieutenant General Russel Honore, Commander of Joint Task Force Katrina A week ago, Ralphs’ parking lot could have been mistaken for one along the Gulf States […]
The Scarecrows of Cambria Several years ago – back in the late ’90s – I discovered Cambria. Perhaps you’ve seen the license plate frames: Cambria – Where the pines meet the sea. And indeed the pines do meet the sea, a wonderful combination. Think Malibu butting up to Big Bear. Incongruous? Definitely … yet it […]
By Jason KUROSU and Mary O’KEEFE The first ever Los Angeles County dog park will have its “leash-cutting” ceremony on Friday at 11 a.m. Located at the west end of the Crescenta Valley Park parking lot at 3901 Dunsmore Ave. in La Crescenta, the dog park is the culmination of several years of petitioning and […]
By Jason KUROSU Proposition 32, titled the Stop Special Interest Money Now Act, would place new limits on campaign finance rules and the current avenues for making campaign contributions. Specifically, payroll deductions for political purposes would be prohibited, corporations and labor unions would be forbidden from making direct contributions to candidates and government contractors would […]