Crisis? What Crisis? California leaders, from the governor on down to municipal city councilmembers, appear to be in “panic mode” as they scramble to do something about the so-called housing shortage. I am pretty sure that we are not on the brink of a market crisis as they claim. California’s high rents did not […]
CV’s First Inhabitants – What Happened to the Wiqangna Village Site To wrap up our series on the Native Americans who lived in our valley for perhaps thousands of years before we arrived, let’s examine what has happened to the village site. As written before, we are assuming the village was located at the far […]
Looking at Who Contributes to CALPERS It is very unfortunate how people attack our police officers, council members or city staff regarding their retirement, or pensions, while not once mentioning the fact that our civil servants contribute to their own pensions from every single one of their paychecks. Aside from the fact that our officers […]
Learning about this year’s ceremonial leaders of the Montrose-Glendale Christmas Parade. By Mary O’KEEFE Community volunteers have been working for months preparing for the 42nd Annual Montrose-Glendale Christmas Parade. The parade is in the tradition of a small town celebration with over 600 Boy Scouts, Girl Scout troops, schools, local organizations and local marching bands […]
By Charly SHELTON This is the third article in a three-part series on fire and fuel management in the local area. Over the last two weeks, we’ve learned about the restorative necessity of wildland fires, the management techniques of native Californians for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, and how wildland fire fuel […]
Nov. 25 900 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada, a large family had dinner at a local restaurant. During the evening the large group became “rowdy” at times and one man in the group was “quite intoxicated.” When the time came to pay, the bill was split into several smaller bills. Some paid with […]
By Julian MITCHELL, intern Driving by the Glendale City Hall on Tuesday night, one could not help but notice the large crowd on the steps of city hall. The mass of over 100 people was gathered to protest the lack of rent control within the City of Glendale. “Shame on the greedy landlords!” chanted the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The man who allegedly robbed the Wells Fargo Bank in the 2400 block of Honolulu Avenue on Tuesday may have been the same man who committed two other robberies in Glendale and Burbank on Monday. A transient, Raul Gutierrez, 31, was arrested Tuesday by Glendale police after he was found hiding in […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office has identified the body of a woman found on Angeles Crest Highway as Karina Alcaraz, 27. The woman’s body was found by U.S. Forestry employees on the Crest at mile marker 31 on Nov. 17 at about 10:30 a.m. “We are investigating it as a suspicious death […]