LCF Farmers Market and Montrose Harvest Market Open The City of La Cañada Flintridge and the Montrose Shopping Park Assn. have announced that their Farmers Market and Harvest Market will be open this weekend. The LCF Farmers Market will be open on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the Harvest Market will be […]
“At one hot, faraway world, it’s always cloudy with a chance of iron rain.” ~ Cape Canaveral, Florida These words are a real eye-catcher – hot, faraway, cloudy and rain. Taking a closer look, I realized they were not meant for our home in the universe. Before we take off to a distant location, far […]
» PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE By Michael DUMANSKY In what seemed like an instant one of the most highly-anticipated sports events was ripped from local basketball fans: the appearance by the St. Francis Golden Knights at the CIF state basketball championship. Just before the team was set to head to Sacramento, St. Francis coach Todd Wolfson received […]
Rose Linda Gonzales, vice president of Scholarships for the Community Scholarship Foundation of La Cañada Flintridge, announced that CSF is now accepting applications for scholarships to be awarded in May 2020. CSF encourages students who may want to attend a trade tech, vocational career college, or a junior college, to apply as well as those […]
By Robin GOLDSWORTHY Supporters of the Glendale Education Foundation dressed the part of the Roaring ’20s at the annual diamonds gala held on Friday night at the Glen Arden Club in Glendale. The occasion not only was an excuse to don the attire of the ’20s but to also support the GEF and its celebration […]
Shark Tooth Hill Boy Scout Troop 319 recently returned from an amazing trek out to The Ernst Quarries, which is located east of Bakersfield and a stone’s throw north of the Kern River. Each Scout transformed into a budding young paleontologist as they sifted sand searching for 15 million-year-old sharks’ teeth and bone fragments. Everyone […]
CV Street Name Origins – Part 5 Here’s more on the Tujunga street names. But first a submission from Steve Thompson of La Crescenta: “In the late 1960s, the Shel Homes company built a housing development in the southeast section of Tujunga. A cul-de-sac with only four houses was named Pessin Place after the […]
» CORONAVIRUS AND ENTERTAINMENT By Charly SHELTON Amid an abundance of caution, most every entertainment enterprise requiring in-person interaction has been shut down. Theme parks are closed. Movie theaters are closed. Festivals are postponed or canceled. Let’s take a look at the realities and the impacts of what this means for the entertainment industry. […]
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE By Charly SHELTON The shutdown sucks. No two ways about it. Being inside for the best weather of the year with nowhere to go and nowhere fun open if I could go. Being out of work while so many businesses are shut down is stressful, too. The virus is enough […]
News From Sacramento » Laura FRIEDMAN March 2020 The moment we are in is unprecedented. With residents self-isolating, schools closed, events canceled, businesses empty and stores out of common household goods, we are in uncharted territory. There is a lot of uncertainty, which can be frightening and confusing. I want to take a few […]