On Wednesday, Nov. 1 from 12:10 p.m. to 12:40 p.m., the free admission Glendale Noon Concerts will feature the Calico Winds performing works by American composers Daniel Gregory Mason, Lowell Mason and William Mason at the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church. For more information, email glendalesda@gmail.com or call (818) 244- 7241. With style and grace, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley Water District customers have recently received a postcard concerning “Important Election Information.” “The date of the board member election of the Crescenta Valley Water District has been changed from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of odd years to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in […]
Work Planned by SCE Southern California Edison will be performing maintenance on the electrical system in the area. In order to perform this work safely, SCE must temporarily turn off power. This outage will allow the modernization of the grid by making needed upgrades and repairs to increase reliability. Power outages may cause some inconvenience […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Halloween is celebrated in Crescenta Valley with several traditions including the Spooktacular hosted by the Montrose Shopping Park and Nightmare in Whiting Woods where, for that last 17 years, local resident David Krohn has turned his home into a haunted house. It started at his home in Vista Court and the annual […]
“Listen! The wind is rising and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” ~ Humbert Wolfe, 1885-1940 Italian-born British poet Early Monday morning the chiming and tingling of wind chimes announced the arrival of the Santa Ana winds. By 9 a.m. the temperature read 90 F; […]
Scary Times in the Valley Though politics and global warming – oops, climate change – can frighten the bravest of the brave, in Crescenta Valley we are approaching a time when even the most stalwart will feel a shiver travel up their spine. I’m talking Halloween. Halloween has a fascinating history (read Charly Shelton’s piece […]
By Julie BUTCHER On Wednesday, Oct. 18, local politicians took legislative steps to make the long-imagined Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act a reality. If adopted, the legislation would add more than 191,000 acres to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, protecting various parklands and wildlife-friendly areas, running from the Santa Susanas and […]
Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts Are Not The Answer This month, Congress began consideration of a new budget, which will set the stage for the debate of a major tax reform proposal. During the campaign and since his election, President Trump promised a tax reform plan that would benefit the average American and would not grow the […]
Tujunga Ghost Stories I’ve been writing the last few weeks on the origins of the names of the canyons on the north side of our valley and stories surrounding them. Let me take a short break from that in honor of Halloween, and I’ll relate a few ghost stories from Sunland-Tujunga. I recently picked up […]
By Vincent PAGE The dream season of the Crescenta Valley High School Falcons’ varsity football team came to an end on Friday night. They suffered their first defeat of the season at the hands of the Burbank Bulldogs by a score of 37-20. The Falcons came into the game with a perfect 7-0 record. Burbank […]