On Friday, Feb. 23 at approximately 2:17 a.m., an officer stopped a vehicle for a paper plate violation in the 900 block of Omar Street in the City of Glendale. The two occupants were contacted and identified as 40-year-old William Matusewski (driver) from Simi Valley and 25-year-old Patrick Pascarella from New York. The investigation revealed […]
NASA AND WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATED Today, Thursday, March 1 at 7 p.m., Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse hosts a presentation by planetary astronomer and author Bonnie J. Buratti. Her book, “Worlds Fantastic. Worlds Familiar,” is a personal guided tour of NASA’s latest discoveries. On March 8 at 7 p.m., author Lisa Schnebly Heidinger will make […]
Ask Phyllis! Seniors Who Resist Decluttering Dear Phyllis, I look forward to your real estate column. We have lived in our La Crescenta home for more than thirty years. We raised our family here and now it’s just the two of us. There are so many reasons we should move: maintenance, two levels, […]
Julie Sprengel, SVP Chief Operating officer of Dignity Health So Cal, and April Fox, director of Mother and Baby Unit, accepted the Little Red Hats to be given to babies born at GMHHC during February.
“What I do like is hiking. And that’s what filmmaking is. It’s a hike. It’s challenging and exhausting, and you don’t know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you’re going in … but it sure is beautiful.” – Joss Whedon By Mary O’KEEFE That “beautiful” hike is something students […]
Calendar that! The Community Foundation of the Verdugos (CFV) now has a community calendar for nonprofit events happening in the Verdugo region. The CFV is a 501(c)(3) which provides a place in which donors may establish donor funds or leave bequests to support their favorite charities or learn about new charities. The event calendar is […]
Spring Concert at CVHS Save the date! The Crescenta Valley High School Instrumental Music Dept. is having its 2018 Spring Concert on Wednesday, March 14 at 6 p.m. in MacDonald Auditorium at CVHS, 4400 Ramsdell Avenue, La Crescenta. Note that change in time. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students. The concert will […]
QUESTION: I guess the older you get, the more you experience loved ones – family and close friends – passing away. I’m overwhelmed by so many recent losses (five) and, I have to admit, my faith is shaken and I’m very depressed. I pray, but nothing is happening. Jesus said, “Ask and ye shall receive […]
By Nicole MOORE The Crescenta Valley Community Assn. held its monthly meeting, with an unusually large audience, on Thursday, Feb. 22. The Association is a volunteer-based, multi-jurisdictional committee that focuses on land use issues in the La Crescenta, La Cañada, Montrose and Sunland-Tujunga areas. The February meeting had a higher than usual number of participants […]
The Best Story … 2018 Montrose Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce Welcome to our creative new executive director, Victoria Marie da Salla (office@montrosechamber.org), and to our committed co-president Christopher Charles (ccharles@ft.newyorklife.com) of New York Life Insurance Company, and our dedicated board of directors that include Dave Fink (davegfink@aol.com), Sparr Bar & Grill, Kristi Cohen […]