By Brian CHERNICK The Sept. 12 meeting of the Glendale City Council marked a small victory for the historical preservation of Glendale. The council, reduced to four members for three consecutive weeks because of the planned absence by councilmember Zareh Sinanyan, voted unanimously to place three out of five properties on the Glendale Register of […]
By Charly SHELTON The Cassini spacecraft, after 20 years in space, ended its long mission last Friday in the early hours of the morning, 890 million miles from home. At 3:31 a.m. PST, Cassini plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere as it gave in to gravity and was pulled into the clouds of the gas giant. By […]
New Season with Plenty to Do Summer will soon be a memory as fall arrives tomorrow, Sept. 22. Like many of you, it arrives none too soon as it brings cooler temperatures with it. To me, this summer seemed particularly brutal as far as weather – but maybe I’m just getting older and more sensitive […]
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet What are you doing tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 22 at 1:02 p.m. PDST? One of the greatest (celestial) […]
By Robin GOLDSWORTHY and Mary O’KEEFE The community came out to support the Crescenta Valley Town Council and local non-profits for the council’s 10th annual pancake breakfast held Saturday morning at CV High School. “It was a fabulous day,” said CVTC member and breakfast organizer Kyle Studebaker. “The American Legion was out in full force […]
CV Town Council Meets The general meeting of the Crescenta Valley Town Council is tonight, Thursday, Sept. 21 at the La Crescenta Library. All are invited. La Crescenta Library, 2809 Foothill Blvd. Town Hall Meeting with Laura Friedman A town hall meeting with State Assemblymember – 43rd District Laura Friedman is Friday, Sept. 22 […]
Sept. 16 2800 block of Prospect Avenue in La Crescenta, an iPad, tool bag and tools were stolen from a locked vehicle. Surveillance footage showed a black pickup truck, possibly a Ford F 150, traveling westbound on Prospect Avenue. It stopped directly in front of the victim’s residence. The passenger, described as a male Hispanic […]
By Charly SHELTON Large earthquakes have been striking around the Pacific Rim in the last few days. Following an 8.1 quake in the Gulf of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico on Sept 7, the country just outside of Mexico City was rocked again by a 7.1 quake on Tuesday. As of press time, the death toll […]
On Tuesday, USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, the lead federal coordinator of U.S. international disaster response efforts, activated the Los Angeles County Fire Dept.’s Urban Search and Rescue Team, known internationally as USA-2, to deploy to Mexico and assist with the aftermath of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. USA-2 will deploy to Mexico […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Friday, the Crescenta Valley once again went a little bear crazy as a mama and baby roamed around the 2400 and 2500 blocks of Cross Street and Fairmount Avenue. The bears spent some time at St. Luke’s of the Mountains, before moving onto the backyard of local residents. The mama and […]