Questions About Today’s Real Estate?

Ask Phyllis!   Encroachments     Dear Phyllis, We purchased our La Crescenta home in 2007. The Realtor® we used was a family friend who has since retired. We are planning on selling our home next Spring and met with two different Realtors®.  One mentioned that the assessor’s record of our lot size didn’t visually […]

CV Weekly On The Move!!

Kaipo Chock took CV Weekly with him on a recent trip to Hawaii. “Mauna Kea, please donate to the cause,” he said. CV Weekly loves to travel! Take us along on your next trip and send us a photo. You may find yourselves on the pages of the community’s favorite newspaper.

New Parish Life Director at Local Parish

Sister Karen Collier, SSL, was installed as the parish life director for the Catholic Community of Holy Redeemer-St. James the Less on Dec. 7. Bishop Alex Aclan, auxiliary bishop of the San Fernando region, presided over Mass with new priest Father Michael Grieco and Father George Brincat. The staff and parishioners welcomed Sister Karen with […]

New Year’s Eve at Local Watering Holes

By Charly SHELTON New Year’s Eve is just around the corner and Crescenta Valley bars and restaurants are pulling out all the stops to usher in the next decade. Let’s take a look at what some of the popular spots will be up to. Avignone’s. Avignone’s in Montrose was purchased by new owners earlier this […]

Spiritually Speaking

QUESTION: I have a very good friend, or at least I thought this person was a good friend, who betrayed a confidence. What I told my friend was very sensitive and I didn’t want anyone else to know. We both attend the same church and volunteer in several organizations together. I admit I’m very angry […]

Winter Updates for Basketball Teams

By Brandon HENSLEY With the winter break upon Glendale area schools, it’s tournament time for both the Crescenta Valley boys and girls’ varsity basketball teams. Both squads were off for the beginning of the week as final exams took precedent, but today the boys’ team will be back at it at Burbank High to take […]

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Fails to Rise

By Susan JAMES After 42 years, nine films and multiple iterations for television, the “Star Wars” saga is fairly familiar to a great number of people. “The Rise of Skywalker,” which presumably brings the Skywalker saga full circle, is like a Christmas tree. You know it’s dead but there are so many shiny objects, colored […]

NOTES & NODS

  This Week at LCIF All are welcome to Lutheran Church in the Foothills for the fourth Sunday of Advent on Dec. 22. Pastor Scott Peterson’s sermon is called “Do You Feel it?” Stay after the service for refreshments and conversation. The annual candlelight service will be at 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve; all are […]

Calendar This

KIWANIS CLUB CELEBRATES THE HOLIDAYS The Kiwanis Club of Glendale will enjoy holiday music at its next meeting on Friday, Dec. 20. The club is dark on Dec. 27. Guests are welcome at the weekly lunch meeting. The cost to attend, which includes lunch, is $15. Meetings start at noon. The Club meets Friday afternoons […]

A Queen Mary Christmas

A Queen Mary Christmas

By Charly SHELTON It’s that time of year for gingerbread everything, holiday lights and the gentle hiss of a “snoap” machine giving SoCal a white Christmas. That’s right; it’s time for the holidays at the local theme parks. From Universal Studios Hollywood to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, and everywhere in between, the holiday […]