More Water Budget Discussions to Come

By Mary O’KEEFE If you missed last week’s Crescenta Valley Water District budget workshop, the public will have another opportunity to share their opinion on the matter in June. CVWD staff is currently preparing its recommendation concerning a rate increase. It will share that recommendation with the CVWD Board of Directors at the next regular […]

Neighbors Deal with Dilemma of Damaged Trees

Neighbors Deal with Dilemma of Damaged Trees

By Mary O’KEEFE The tree that recently fell in a local neighborhood has many residents concerned about future dangers. It was on March 29 when neighbors in the 3900 block of El Lado Drive in the Glenwood Oaks area heard a crack and then saw a large oak tree topple to the ground trapping a […]

Celebrating Good Pairings

Celebrating Good Pairings

By Charly SHELTON Crowds will gather along the 2200 block of Honolulu on Sunday for an afternoon of beer and food tasting. It’s time for craft beer, craft food and mingling with your neighbors down in Montrose, it must be time for the Montrose Food and Craft Beer Fest. “The focus is independent craft brewers. […]

Frances Andrews

March 23, 2018 Frances Andrews, 94, of La Cañada Flintridge passed peacefully into the arms of her savior on March 23. Frances was a United States veteran having served in the WAVES during WWII. She had always been a very social and active woman and devoted to her Catholic faith. Frances is survived by her […]

Vote Postponed on Boutique Hotel Project

By Brian CHERNICK Glendale City Council failed to bring up a vote on a boutique hotel project design at the April 4 meeting after more than three hours of presentations, public comments and deliberation. The hearing regarded the design of a future Hotel Indigo, a six-story 140-room high-end establishment owned by the InterContinental Hotel Group […]

Ongoing Spring Showers Bring Full Bloom of Allergy Season

The allergy season is in full swing with the recent rains in Los Angeles and people are experiencing severe allergy symptoms. This year’s wet and windy spring season has given way to unseasonable high mold spores and pollen counts across Southern California. “Additional humidity and moisture triggers higher concentrations of mold spores and pollen, exacerbating […]

Distracted Driving Still a Concern

Drivers are using their cellphones less often while driving, 10 years after “hands-free” became the law, but distracted driving remains a serious safety challenge in California. Observing April as Distracted Driving Awareness Month and the first week in April as California Teen Safe Driving Week, safety advocates will focus on education and enforcement efforts statewide. […]

Treasures of the Valley » Mike Lawler

Vietnam Memorial Names – William Hail, Jerry Murphy, Gary Nelson   “Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.” These words are on the Montrose Vietnam Memorial, and that is what we will do in the next few weeks. We will give you the stories behind each name on […]

NEWS FROM The CVCA » Sharon WEISMAN

Scholl Canyon Project Garners Comments Area residents continue to appear at Glendale City Council meetings to express their opinions of the Scholl Canyon landfill gas power generation and Grayson Repowering projects. They are concerned about the environmental effects and costs to taxpayers of these longterm infrastructure maintenance efforts and are lobbying for more sustainable approaches […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Not Impressed with Portantino Senator Anthony Portantino touted his newly written bills that would authorize suicide prevention hotline numbers on student identification cards and raise the age limit for purchase of long guns to 21 (“Portantino’s SB 972 Passes Committee,” March 22). Laudable as these bills may be, do you know that then-Assemblyman Portantino voted […]