By Lori BODNAR, intern Mahesh Arunachalam and Mihir Manchikatla, two seventh grade students attending Rosemont Middle School, recently placed in the Top 300 National Winners for the Broadcom MASTERS national STEM competition. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math. The Broadcom MASTERS is a program supported by the Society for Science & the Public, […]
CV’s First Inhabitants – Hunting As I have mentioned in previous columns, the Tongva people of the Los Angeles area enjoyed a rich and nutritious diet. Besides the variety of plants they ate, they had a wide array of high-protein meat available. While the coast natives were awash in seafood (pun-intended), the inland natives […]
Sept. 16 3100 block of Harmony Place in La Crescenta, a woman reported placing mail on her mailbox intending for it to be picked up by the mail carrier the next day. She also left clothing and a DVD player inside a paper bag on her porch. When she returned the mail and the paper […]
Sept. 17, 2018 On Monday, the 17th of September, Maria Antonia Zuniga, known to all who loved her as Mary, passed on to her eternal rest in God our Savior at the age of 79. She was preceded in death by her husband Osacar Zuniga, and her parents, Aurelio and Amalia Ruiz. Mary’s life is […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale police responded to a call concerning a robbery in progress at Vons Market in the 3200 block of Foothill Boulevard on Sunday at 6:34 p.m. When officers arrived the suspect had fled. The Vons employee told officers that he had witnessed a man, described as Hispanic in his 20s, about 6’ […]
Feb. 12, 1939 – Sept. 9, 2018 Ruth Ada Cassara was born on Feb. 12, 1939 in Kendall, Wisconsin and raised in La Crescenta. She and her husband Victor Cassara resided in Sunland. Ruth was 17 when she married Victor. Her faith and their shared belief in family values were the foundation for their marriage […]
The Crescenta Valley Town Council meets tonight, Thursday, Sept. 20 at the La Crescenta Library community room. On the agenda is a presentation to the Council by the Los Angeles County Parks & Rec of the final rendering for the Two Strike Park Median Tree Project. The Arroyo Verdugo Communities Joint Powers Authority (AVCJPA), consist […]
The annual Montrose Film Festival was the place to be last weekend. The family-friendly movies were screened to a packed open-air house in the parking lot of Andersen’s Pet Shop. Years ago this was where the Montrose Theatre once stood before fire destroyed it in the late 1980s. Free popcorn was handed out and […]
On Sunday morning, a fatal accident occurred on the southbound I5 Golden State Freeway just north of the Balboa Boulevard exit at 11:08 a.m. resulting in the death of a Crescenta Valley High School graduate. Matt Fielding, 25, from La Crescenta was traveling southbound. A BMW was also traveling southbound in lane six when Matt’s […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Glendale Unified School District has contracted with Placeworks to conduct the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed lighting and bleachers at Crescenta Valley High School track and field. The district has also contracted with TbP Architects to do preliminary drawings/plans for Placeworks to use […]