By Mary O’KEEFE Supervisor Kathryn Barger made a motion on Tuesday to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors asking for a reward of $20,000 for any information leading to the suspect or suspects who apparently threw a boulder off the Orange Grove Boulevard freeway crossover, striking and killing a 23-year-old man. The incident occurred […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Senator Anthony Portantino’s SB 972 passed the State Senate Education Committee on March 14 with bipartisan support. It will now go onto the Assembly and Senate for a vote. “I don’t anticipate any opposition,” he said. The bill requires public, charter and private schools to print a suicide prevention hotline number and/or […]
By Charly SHELTON The treasures of the boy king are on tour for the last time. As they await their new resting place in the currently-under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, the burial goods of King Tutankhamun are embarking on a farewell tour to the California Science Center in Los Angeles and then nine […]
The Community Emergency Response Team – CERT – wound up a week of training with a realistic drill held at St. Luke’s of the Mountains and The Fire House youth center. Volunteers from Rosemont Middle School and Lincoln Elementary School, kids and parents, were made-up for two scenarios, one as victims of a gas explosion […]
“One can’t predict the weather more than a few days in advance.” ~ Stephen Hawking Living on the surface of the Earth, our awareness of events happening is, at this level, the troposphere, where all weather occurs. Perhaps not included in “our” weather was Stephen Hawking’s statement. His mind was on events happening in […]
Having a Positive Effect Driving to work this week, I stopped at the traffic light by Jeremy’s Coffee Shop at Honolulu and Ramsdell avenues (great breakfasts there, by the way). As I waited for the light to change, I saw a car pull into Jeremy’s lot and two gals got out. They were sisters […]
CVCA Plans Meeting The Crescenta Valley Community Association will meet tonight, Thursday, March 22 starting at 7 p.m. in the community room at the La Crescenta Library. The agenda includes discussion of the Scholl Canyon landfill gas power generation project Mitigated Negative Declaration. Contact Sharon Weisman, sharon@jetcafe.org or (818) 248-4967 for more information. La Crescenta […]
By Robin GOLDSWORTHY Yes, it rained during the Wine Walk on the evening of March 10. But the event, hosted by the Montrose Shopping Park Assn., will be remembered by most of the attendees as an opportunity to get out, meet friends, do some shopping and taste some wine. The wine was poured by shop […]
A High Stakes Gamble by the President on North Korea It may have left the front pages for the moment, but the most consequential event of President Trump’s term of office could come within the next few months: a meeting between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Town Council meeting was held March 15 in the community room at La Crescenta Library. During the meeting there was an update from Caltrans on the work being done on the Foothill (210) Freeway. The project involves a major roadway rework that rehabilitates 90 lane miles of pavement, replaces […]